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...Sunak appointed Anderson as Tory deputy chair in early 2023....
...“If he allows the likes of Anderson to spread hate and division like this, those words will be revealed as a sham.”...
...Speaking before news of Anderson’s suspension, Khan said that it was “unclear” why Sunak and members of his cabinet were not condemning Anderson’s comments. “Racism is racism,” he said....
...“That’s news to me,” said Anderson....
...In a round of local radio interviews on Monday morning, Sunak said Anderson’s words “weren’t acceptable”. Read more here....
...Anderson told the FT the “country has already made up their minds” on the Conservatives, while the rightwing New Conservatives faction said: “We need to change course urgently.”...
...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....
...The arrival of GB News as a force in rightwing politics was captured this month when Lee Anderson, one of the station’s presenters, defected from the Conservatives, declaring live on TV: “I want my country...
...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....
...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...
...Rishi Sunak is braced for a major rebellion on Tuesday by rightwing Conservative MPs over his Rwanda migration policy, as his party’s deputy chair Lee Anderson said he was joining the revolt....
...Lee Anderson, former Tory deputy chair, was suspended from the party after he claimed that Islamists had taken control of London and the capital’s mayor, Sadiq Khan....
...Lucy Fisher is joined by FT colleagues George Parker, Robert Shrimsley and Jim Pickard to analyse the by-election result and examine the division and sectarianism stalking British politics....
...A spokesman for Reynolds said he would take Anderson’s report into consideration in framing new structures for business relations....
...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....
...The group, to which Tory vice-chair Lee Anderson is linked, will meet on Wednesday to discuss its next steps once the judgment is issued....
...Deputy Tory chair Lee Anderson and Jonathan Gullis are key members.Trouble rating: 4/5 Northern Research Group Chair: John Stevenson Created in 2019 to represent MPs in the North and Midlands its main...
...Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson said Sunak should ignore the Supreme Court ruling. “I think we should just get the planes in the air now and send them to Rwanda,” he told reporters....
...Lee Anderson, deputy Conservative chair, told the Daily Express: “If they don’t like barges then they should f*** off back to France.”...
...George Parker Well, again, I mean, this just goes to the heart of the mixed messaging we were talking about earlier....
...Unlike the row over Lee Anderson’s comments, the Conservative party is not divided over substance in the Hester case: there is a significant minority of Tory MPs who think Anderson should not have been suspended...
...Lee Anderson, the Tory MP who is also deputy chair of the party, said in February that with Brexit off the agenda the party needed to find new topics to galvanise the electorate, namely the “trans debate...
...Meanwhile Lee Anderson, Conservative deputy chair, said the next election should be fought on “a mix of culture wars and the trans debate”....
...Another of JW Anderson’s mad clutches — in the shape of a pigeon — took flight online when carried by Sarah Jessica Parker on set of the Sex and the City sequel And Just Like That....
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