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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Helen Pidd

Lee Anderson: from Labour councillor to Labour wind-up merchant

Lee Anderson
Lee Anderson, prized by the Conservatives as a one-man unmoderated comments section. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images

Lee Anderson, the former miner turned MP for Ashfield, has caused more controversy in his four-and-a-bit years in parliament than most of the 2019 intake combined.

Before he was even elected, Labour was calling for him to be sacked, after he suggested nuisance social housing tenants should be evicted into tents and made to pick vegetables.

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