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...Meanwhile former Tory cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg and Reform UK MP Lee Anderson earned more than £350,000 and £100,000 respectively as hosts on GB News over the past year....
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...Former Conservative deputy chair Lee Anderson has defected to Reform UK, handing the populist rightwing party its first MP and delivering a significant blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak....
...One way or the other, Reform is going to reshape the Conservative party — just don’t rule out it doing so in a way that moves the Tories further from politicians such as Lee Anderson, rather than closer...
...Re-elect the party that has overseen the last 14 years of rushing towards the abyss”. As a result, he looks both weak and repellent to almost everyone....
...Former deputy Tory chair Lee Anderson has announced his defection to the Reform UK party at a press conference this morning. The move hands the populist right-wing party its first MP....
...Asked whether Anderson would have the whip removed, a Tory source said: “Lee was simply making the point that the mayor, in his capacity as police and crime commissioner for London, has abjectly failed to...
...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...
...Britain’s deputy prime minister on Sunday declined to say if comments by former senior Tory Lee Anderson about London mayor Sadiq Khan were racist, as Rishi Sunak warned that democracy must not “fall into...
...Science minister Andrew Griffith, housing minister Lee Rowley and data minister Julia Lopez also voted against the bill....
...The first of these, Lee Anderson, is now suspended from his party, although in ways that suggest he might still be welcome to return were he to apologise....
...Pat McFadden, Labour’s election campaign chief, said: “What does it say about Rishi Sunak’s judgment that he promoted Lee Anderson in the first place?...
...Throughout Tuesday, Tory whips were rushing through Westminster’s corridors trying to contain the Conservative revolt....
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...He was speaking at a “Lagers with Lee” public event last month at the South Cambridgeshire Conservative Association....
...Truss’s address followed speeches by former Conservative deputy chair Lee Anderson and former business secretary Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg....
...The prime minister on Monday urged MPs to stop using words that “inflame” community tensions, denouncing comments last week by former Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson as “wrong”....
...Sunak on Tuesday was grappling with the continued fallout from the defection of Lee Anderson, former Conservative deputy chair, to the populist Reform UK party, which has alarmed the right of the Tory party...
...Having stoked Tory hopes of tax cuts earlier in the year, the chancellor is now rushing to suppress them....
...Dan Barker, who was a local association chair for the party in Manchester, announced on social media platform X on Thursday that he would join former Tory MP Lee Anderson in switching their support from...
...Rishi Sunak has urged MPs to stop using words that “inflame” community tensions, as he denounced comments last week by former Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson as “wrong”....
...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...
...In the early years of the brand, Burch looked to the sophisticated exuberance of her parents’ wardrobes in the 1960s and ’70s, as well as tastemakers such as Lee Radziwill and David Hicks....
...So might suggest the Conservative party and Rishi Sunak haven’t learnt from their errors with Lee Anderson, but, no....
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