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    Who is Lee Anderson? As former Tory MP accused of ‘stoking division and hate’ joins Reform UK

    by Andy Gregory Mar 11, 2024 5 minutes
    Source: AFP via Getty Images

    Former Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson has defected to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party after he was suspended by the Conservatives over racist remarks directed at London mayor Sadiq Khan.

    He announced his switch to the right-wing populist party at a press conference on Monday alongside party leader Richard Tice in London.

    Mr Anderson said: “I will start by saying I want my country back. Over the last year or so I’ve had to do a lot of soul-searching on my political journey.”

    He was recently suspended from the Tory party after comments he made about Mr Khan which were described by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer as an “appalling racist and Islamophobic outburst”.

    In a previous outburst Mr Anderson said that who do not wish to be housed in the government’s Bibby Stockholm barge should “f*** off back to France”, leading Mr Khan

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