Nottinghamshire MP Lee Anderson clashed with a local BBC radio presenter as an argument blew up, where he asked her 10 times if she’d ever told a lie. The outspoken MP for Ashfield, who has just been made deputy Conservative Party chairman, hit the headlines when an interview emerged where he called for the death penalty to return.
Mr Anderson had said that “nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed” to justify his position. Asked whether he would support the return of the death penalty, Mr Anderson told weekly magazine The Spectator: “Yes." He added: "Nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed. You know that, don’t you? 100 per cent success rate.”
Appearing on BBC Radio Nottingham he was asked by radio presenter Verity Cowley about a video of him setting up a doorstep encounter during the 2019 election campaign. In one section the pre-recorded interview he was asked about an incident in the run-up to the 2019 general election.
