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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ben Quinn and Patrick Wintour

Lee Anderson says he is not ruling out defecting to Reform UK

Lee Anderson
Lee Anderson said he would stand at the general election. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Lee Anderson has said he is not ruling out defecting to Reform UK, in a move that would give the rightwing populist party its first MP.

Anderson, a former Conservative party deputy chair, who has been suspended from sitting as a Tory MP because of his comments about the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said he had “been on a political journey” when pressed about whether he would join Reform.

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