Former Conservative MP Lee Anderson Joins Reform UK

Former Conservative MP Lee Anderson has joined his third political party in less than a decade after defecting to Reform UK. A former miner, Mr Anderson started as a Labour councillor in his native Ashfield in 2015 where he also worked for the then-Labour MP Gloria de Piero. Three years later he was suspended from the local party in Nottingham for allegedly using boulders to stop a group of travellers settling in the area - and defected to the Conservatives a month after.

He took his former boss's parliamentary seat with a majority of 5,000 as part of Boris Johnson's 'red wall' intake of MPs in 2019. And despite a string of contentious comments, he was given the job of party chairman by Rishi Sunak in 2023. Just over a year later, however, he lost the Tory whip for saying 'Islamists' have 'got control' of London mayor Sadiq Khan. From calling his now-party leader a 'pound shop Nigel Farage' to saying migrants on the Bibby Stockholm should 'f*** off back to France', Sky News looks back at some of the controversies Mr Anderson has found himself i

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