Lee Anderson MP was appointed deputy chair of the Tory party by Rishi Sunak yesterday. The ‘Red Wall Rottweiler’ regularly walks into controversy, but assures fellow Tories that he is “gonna take this role really seriously”.
But will Anderson provide the harmony Sunak needs? We last ran into him at a Policy Exchange event in the summer. Sunak, then chancellor, gave a speech full of hints about his plans (he resigned a few days later, triggering Boris Johnson’s downfall). But Anderson told us he wasn’t interested in Sunak and hadn’t been paying attention.
