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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Mark Townsend Home Affairs Editor

‘He’s a bit of a prat’: voters in Ashfield turn on Lee Anderson

The town of Kirkby-in-Ashfield. The voters are getting to grips with their outspoken MP
The town of Kirkby-in-Ashfield. The voters are getting to grips with their outspoken MP. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer

Depending on your political instincts he’s a prime candidate for the “worst man in Britain”, no-nonsense voice of the people, or pugnacious darling of the Tory right.

Lee Anderson defends his inability to swerve controversy by claiming that what might make parliamentarians blanch, the people of Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, unequivocally back.

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