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UNBELIEVABLE: Ex senior uk tory defects to fringe right wing party | History Defined

Reform UK leader Richard Tice, left, welcomed former Conservative party deputy chairman Lee Anderson as its first MP (Credit: AFP)

Embattled UK leader Rishi Sunak suffered a fresh blow Monday when a former ally defected to a right-wing populist party that is worrying the ruling Conservatives ahead of this year's general election.

Lee Anderson announced that he was joining Reform UK, weeks after he was suspended from Sunak's Conservative party over comments widely condemned as racist and Islamophobic.

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