Lee Anderson, suspended by the governing Conservatives for claiming Islamists had taken control of London, becomes Reform UK’s first ever MP.
Lee Anderson, the former deputy chairman of the governing U.K. Conservative Party, has defected to the fledgling Reform U.K. to become the right-wing populist party’s first MP.
The news was announced at a highly-anticipated press conference held by Reform U.K. leader Richard Tice on Monday morning.
“Something significant has changed in recent months. I’ve noticed people’s concerns and anxiety have turned to anger and fury. Because nothing works. Britain is broken, and we all know who broke it.
“There is absolute fury that the Tories have imposed on us without any democratic consent whatsoever, mass immigration that we can see from the data is making us poorer. No question whatsoever,” said Tice.
“People are also appalled at what is going on in our towns and cities, week in week out, with these anti-Semitic, hate-filled, pro-Hamas marches leading to great fear for our Jewish communities.
“People are horrified at this gender ideology is infecting our schools, poisoning the minds of our children. Parents, and grandparents, in their millions, are shocked by this,” he added.