Liberal Democrat councillors were turned away from Lee Anderson's office in Sutton after attempting to deliver 48,000 leaflets to the MP which highlight some of his views. The party had produced a leaflet mentioning four of the Conservative Ashfield MP's comments which it disagrees with, including his support for bringing back the death penalty and his view that some of those using food banks would benefit from budgeting advice.
The leaflet was produced after Mr Anderson was chosen to be deputy chairman of the Conservative Party by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a small reshuffle of his top team. Responding to the leaflet in a social media post on February 11, Mr Anderson wrote: "Lib Dems' new attack poster. Please drop me 48,000 off and I will deliver them myself in Ashfield."
Taking the post literally, two Liberal Democrat politicians turned up at Mr Anderson's constituency office in Sutton on Wednesday (February 15) with boxes containing 48,000 of the leaflets, which had been paid for after a fundraising effort among Liberal Democrat members. A Liberal Democrat spokesperson claimed the leaflets had cost hundreds of pounds to print and said they had been produced in Chesterfield, with a courier travelling to Sutton from the Derbyshire town to drop them off.
