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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn and Patrick Wintour

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Lee anderson says he is not ruling out defecting to reform uk - Caught on Camera

Lee Anderson
Lee Anderson said he would stand at the general election. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Lee Anderson has said he is not ruling out defecting to Reform UK, in a move that would give the rightwing populist party its first MP.

Anderson, a former Conservative party deputy chair, who has been suspended from sitting as a Tory MP because of his comments about the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said he had “been on a political journey” when pressed about whether he would join Reform.

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