All news on the topic: Lee Anderson

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Top cop gives loudmouth Tory humiliating lesson on Extinction Rebellion protests
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley clashed with Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson after he accused him of not doing his job properly
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Tories finally suspend candidate who posted on Facebook about 'stoning' migrants
Stuart Peach is standing for the Conservatives in Ashfield where party deputy chairman Lee Anderson is the MP. It is too late to remove him from the ballot paper where he will be listed as a Tory candidate
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Tory candidate posted on Facebook about 'stoning' refugees who cross the Channel
The Conservative Party is refusing to say whether it will take any disciplinary action against Stuart Peach. He is standing to become a councillor in Ashfield where Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson is the MP
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Hypocrite Tory Lee Anderson to earn £100k from TV show after MP second jobs rant
The Conservative deputy chairman, who previously slated MPs for having second jobs, will work just eight hours a week for the bumper salary, to the £84,144 he already earns as an MP
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Tory Lee Anderson warned to stay 'impartial' ahead of elections on new TV show
Ranting Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson has been handed an hour-long Friday night show on GB News - but Ofcom warned he would have to promote all sides of political arguments ahead of May's local elections
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'Tory obsession with Gary Lineker won't hide the mess they're making of Britain'
Tory MPs are keen to talk about migrant boats the Gary Lineker row rather than how they have made a mess of the economy and the NHS, writes the Mirror's Kevin Maguire
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Top Tory Lee Anderson mocked by Piers Morgan after bizarre gripe about media
The Conservative deputy chairman shared a screenshot of media coverage on Twitter while complaining about a lack of media coverage - prompting widespread derision
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Tory loudmouth Lee Anderson slammed MP second jobs. then got one himself on TV
Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson has got a show on GB News despite previously suggesting MPs wanting to earn big money should give up their day jobs in Parliament
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Ranting Tory chief Lee Anderson gets own TV show to air his vile attacks on poor
In the last week alone, the Deputy Conservative Chairman was accused of 'demonising' those in poverty and for 'parroting far-right misinformation'. But now he will have his own slot on GB News.
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Labour MP forced to call in police after receiving death threat
Preet Kaur Gill, Britain’s first Sikh MP, said she was left with no choice but to call the police. She is also forced to have a bodyguard at her surgery meetings
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Lee Anderson accused of 'parroting misinformation' of anti-refugee protesters
Tory Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson said the protesters, who threw missiles at police, were 'just normal family people' with concerns about the safety of their community
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Fury as Lee Anderson claims families 'using food banks then going to McDonald's'
The divisive Tory deputy chairman claimed that receiving Universal Credit isn't an indication that families are in poverty - and said he'd contacted a local school to find out why they'd been offering free breakfasts
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Sheila Hancock says she wants to 'leave the world a happy place, full of life'
Iconic actor Sheila Hancock has revealed that she is more determined than ever to be heard as she celebrates her 90th birthday, and still calls out injustice where she sees it
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Tory ministers face caviar shortage after refusing to pay experts a decent wage
Workers at the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), who grant permits for the import of exotic and endangered animal products, are on strike this week after being denied a proper pay rise for 11 years
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DWP refuses to publish report 'clearing minister' over £5k from secretive group
Officials have refused to release details of a probe into DWP minister Guy Opperman's donation from a 'dining club' linked to a firm where he gave speeches
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Lee Anderson says he's not a 'lunatic' for demanding return of death penalty
Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson insisted that millions of voters share his desire for capital punishment to be brought back. He was appointed by Rishi Sunak last week
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Lee Anderson backs out of deal to deliver 48000 Lib Dem leaflets criticising him
The Ashfield MP told the Lib Dems if they sent him a stack of their new poster pointing some of his quotes on the death penalty, food banks and poverty he'd distribute them himself. So they did. Here's what happened
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What will Corbyn do next after Starmer says he won't stand for Labour?
The ex-leader - who remains a Labour member - has had the whip suspended since October 2020. He accused Keir Starmer this week of a 'flagrant attack on the democratic rights' of party members
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Tories should fight election on 'culture wars and trans debate', says new chief
Conservative Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson, who was promoted by Rishi Sunak last week, said the Tories would likely put a 'mix of culture wars and trans debate' at the heart of its general election offer
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Tory Deputy Chair faces libel claim over 'defamatory allegations of bribery'
It comes less than a week after Rishi Sunak appointed the Tory MP Mr Anderson to the central Conservative Party role - despite a string of controversial comments
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'Top Tory's racist ties are a sure-fire way to rebuild Labour's Red Wall'
The controversy surrounding Rishi Sunak's new Deputy Tory Chairman Lee Anderson MP just keeps on growing, with new revelations about his links to neo-Nazi white supremacists
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New deputy Tory chairman faces fresh questions 'over link to white supremacists'
Ashfield MP Lee Anderson, who is Rishi Sunak's new deputy Tory chairman, appears in photographs with Skegby Scooter Club regular who supports white supremacist punk bands that reference Adolf Hitler
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Tories' huge bills on five-star jaunts uncovered as Labour publish 'GPC Files'
Ministers are supposed to stay in the most cost-effective hotels, under official guidelines - but Tory bigwigs have spent millions treating themselves to luxury on the taxpayer's tab
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Labour demands Whitehall keep out of local issues like tarting up bus shelters
Yet the Government’s nosy parkers even insist councils get their go-ahead to scrape chewing gum off the streets
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Ministers admit 4000 phones given to criminals on probation now 'lost or stolen'
Thousands of basic mobile phones were handed out during the pandemic to help keep track of those being supervised by the probation service, including prisoners temporarily released on licence to reduce overcrowding in prisons