Labour urges inquiry into claims Lee Anderson was offered money to join Reform

Lee Anderson won back his Ashfield seat as a Reform party candidate, having had the whip suspended as a Tory MP over comments he made about the London mayor Sadiq Khan. Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The Guardian

Labour has written to parliament’s standards watchdog asking for an investigation into claims that Lee Anderson was offered a six-figure financial incentive to join the Reform party the year before he defected.

Ellie Reeves, the chair of Labour, called on the parliamentary standards commissioner, Daniel Greenberg, to look into the circumstances of Anderson’s decision to join Reform.