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UK politics
Ex-Tory MP Lee Anderson defects to Reform UK
...I say a lot of money, I mean a lot of money.” But on Monday he insisted “no money has been offered at all”. Anderson, who presents a show on TV channel GB News, has a platform to criticise Sunak....
March 11, 2024
Conservative Party UK
Rishi Sunak urged to discipline Lee Anderson over Islamist claims
...“If he allows the likes of Anderson to spread hate and division like this, those words will be revealed as a sham.”...
February 23, 2024
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
Conservative Party UK
Conservative party suspends Lee Anderson over Sadiq Khan comments
...Sir Sajid Javid, a former Tory chancellor, called Anderson’s comments “a ridiculous thing to say” and Lord Gavin Barwell, a Tory peer and former chief of staff to Theresa May, called them “a despicable slur...
February 24, 2024
Edward Luce
Robert Kennedy Jr’s perilous voyage of discovery
...You would be unlikely to waste that kind of cash on a hopeless cause without a larger aim. Polls give RFK Jr between 2 and 15 per cent of the vote in a three-way race....
March 27, 2024
Letter
Letter: Mountain climbers were tougher then
...In his article exploring the motivations of endurance athletes (“Why we’re all a bit like Jasmin Paris”, Spectrum, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, April 6) Tim Harford alludes to the story about George Mallory,...
April 12, 2024
Conservative Party UK
Sunak struggles to contain mounting row over alleged Islamophobia
...“That’s news to me,” said Anderson....
February 26, 2024
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
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Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
News updates from February 27: Hungary backs Sweden’s Nato bid, FTC sues to block Kroger-Albertsons merger
Sunak urges MPs not to ‘inflame’ tensions
...In a round of local radio interviews on Monday morning, Sunak said Anderson’s words “weren’t acceptable”. Read more here....
February 26, 2024
Conservative Party UK
Sunak’s authority ‘seeping away’, say Tory MPs
...Nadine Dorries, a former minister and friend of Johnson, said the story was “rubbish” and had been planted by Number 10 to try to placate rightwing Tory MPs following Anderson’s defection....
March 12, 2024
Conservative Party UK
Sunak’s focus on extremism risks boosting Reform UK, Tory MPs warn
...Anderson, speaking against a backdrop of union flags, said on Monday people who would “never integrate” were moving to Britain....
March 11, 2024
News in-depthMedia
How GB News became the pulpit of rightwing politics in Britain
...Richard Tice, Reform UK’s leader, stood beaming next to Anderson at a Westminster press conference and then invited questions: “GB News,” he said, pointing at a journalist. “The People’s Channel”....
March 23, 2024
Political Fix podcast29 min listen
Labour’s worst nightmare?
...Veteran agitator George Galloway is returning to parliament after storming a divisive by-election in Rochdale. He claims his victory puts “scores” of other Labour seats at risk....
March 1, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: Labour’s worst nightmare?
...George Parker Yeah, there was a very long delay. Rishi Sunak subsequently claimed he acted immediately to suspend Lee Anderson. That isn’t the case....
March 1, 2024
Media
UK media watchdog to investigate GB News over Rishi Sunak Q&A
...Outspoken former Conservative deputy chair Lee Anderson also works as a presenter for the channel. GB News did not respond to a request for comment....
February 19, 2024
Renewable energy
Wall Street turns to ‘solar grazing’ sheep in its push to go green
...“If you’re a small operator . . . and you go to the bank with a two- or three-year payout on equipment and livestock and you’ve got a one-year contract, that’s a tough sell to a banker,” said JR Howard,...
April 10, 2024
ReviewArts
A Muslim & A Jew Go There podcast review — Sayeeda Warsi and David Baddiel tackle febrile topics
...The second concerns senior Tory Lee Anderson, who was suspended from the party after saying Islamists had “got control of London”....
March 4, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
UK politics
Ex-Tory adviser to devise plan for UK business ‘partnership’ with future Labour government
...Anderson, who quit as Boris Johnson’s “LGBT business champion” in 2022 citing a lack of progress on equalities issues, said: “A culture war is not good for this country....
October 16, 2023
Conservative Party UK
Sunak braced for big Tory rebellion over Rwanda asylum plan
...Anderson, a forthright “red wall” Tory MP and former coal miner, had joined Sunak in a campaigning video this month, but his decision to vote for rebel amendments to the Rwanda asylum bill means he is now...
January 15, 2024
Conservative Party UK
Sunak struggles to maintain grip on power as 65th Tory MP calls it quits
...Sunak’s initial refusal to label Hester’s comments racist — let alone return his money — alarmed some MPs, while the defection of Lee Anderson, a former deputy Tory chair, to the populist Reform UK party...
March 16, 2024
UK politics
Galloway victory points to frustration with UK political establishment
...“There aren’t 100 George Galloways, there aren’t even three, five, six....
March 1, 2024
FT Magazine
A personal history of America’s historian-in-chief
...“When I look at all the monuments around here,” she says, gesturing towards a new sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr, “I feel proud to be in Massachusetts.”...
April 20, 2024
FT Schools
IB DP Theory of knowledge class
...hindered by bottlenecks and a sceptical leader History: The backlash against colonialism holds lessons in guilt and gratitude Language: Year in a word: Cancelled Natural sciences: What we have learnt...
April 8, 2024
FT MagazineJancis Robinson
Napa Valley is California’s wine barometer, an expensive one
...Over the past few years, Tennessee agro-billionaire Gaylon Lawrence Jr has bought up a slew of famous wineries, including Heitz Cellar, Stony Hill and Burgess in Napa Valley (as well as second growth Ch...
April 20, 2024
UK immigration
Tory deputy chairs quit over Rwanda bill as Sunak suffers big rebellion
...Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resigned before they were sacked, as they joined 58 other Tory MPs in backing a rebel amendment intended to ensure asylum seekers are sent to Rwanda without delay....
January 16, 2024
ObituaryEleanor Coppola
Eleanor Coppola, filmmaker and writer, 1936-2024
...The eldest, Gian-Carlo, was an actor who died in a boating accident in 1986; Roman is a director and frequent collaborator with Wes Anderson; and Sofia a director and screenwriter whose work includes The...
April 20, 2024
UK politics
Sunak takes aim at extremism ‘at home trying to tear us apart’
...His intervention, made in a televised address outside 10 Downing Street, came after leftwing firebrand George Galloway stormed to victory in the Rochdale by-election on Thursday, a result Sunak branded “...
March 1, 2024

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