Conservative MP Lee Anderson speaking on GB News about Sadiq Khan Lee Anderson has had the Conservative whip suspended after his widely condemned claim that London was controlled by Sadiq Khan’s ‘Islamists mates’. A spokesperson for the party’s chief whip Simon Hart said the decision had been made following the former Tory deputy chairman’s ‘refusal to apologise’ for the remarks made on Friday.
Who is Lee Anderson? Until his suspension, Lee Anderson had been a Conservative MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire since 2019. He was deputy chair of the Tory party from February 2023 to January this year. Before becoming an MP he worked as a coal miner and for Citizens Advice Bureau before serving as a Labour Party councillor in Ashfield from 2015. He defected to the Conservative Party in 2018 and was a Tory ward councillor in Mansfield from 2019 to 2021, alongside working as an MP.
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