Controversial Tory MP Lee Anderson is 'good for the Conservative Party,' Minister insists. NickFerrariLBC
councilor before converting to the Tories, Mr Anderson has been no stranger to controversy since being elected to Westminster in 2019, having criticised food bank users and the England men's football team for taking the knee in protest at racism.
In an interview with The Spectator magazine a few days before his appointment, Mr Anderson said he would support the UK reintroducing the death penalty. He also suggested using Royal Navy frigates to return to France those arriving in small boats across the English Channel. Asked whether he would support the return of the death penalty, Mr Anderson told the weekly magazine: "Yes."You know that, don't you? 100% success rate."
The death penalty for murder in the UK was outlawed permanently in 1969, with it totally abolished for all crimes in 1998.
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