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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hugh Muir

Lee Anderson’s vile anti-migrant comments pose this question: do we want politics like this?

Lee Anderson speaking in parliament during PMQ's on 19 July, 2023.
‘Lee Anderson likes to see himself as his party’s man of the people.’ Photograph: Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament/AFP/Getty Images

Does it matter if Lee Anderson, the deputy chair of the Conservative party, thinks disgruntled asylum seekers should​ “fuck off back to France​” and says so?​

“If they don’t like barges then they should fuck off back to France,” Anderson said. “These people come across the Channel in small boats … if they don’t like the conditions they are housed in here then they should go back to France, or better, not come at all in the first place​.” He was speaking to the Daily Express, with the knowledge that this once-great British newspaper now thrives on printing such things.

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