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Deputy Tory chairman Lee Anderson faces fresh questions 'over link to white supremacists'

Ashfield MP Lee Anderson, who is Rishi Sunak's new deputy Tory chairman, appears in photographs with Skegby Scooter Club regular who supports white supremacist punk bands that reference Adolf Hitler

Daily Mirror

Lib Dems aim to use Lee Anderson’s views as weapon to win ‘safe’ Tory seats

The Tory deputy chair, who has also criticised nurses who use food banks and migrants, could prove toxic for voters in south-east seats

The Guardian - UK

Tories leave Britain as only G7 country with smaller economy than before Covid

The Government wants to blame the pandemic and the war in Ukraine for this dire situation rather than admit it is the product of 12 years of Conservative failure

Daily Mirror

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Sunak's promotion of Lee Anderson shows the war on woke is alive and thriving

Brian Reade believes the elevation of the 'bring back capital punishment' MP could have a silver lining for Labour hopes at a General Election

Daily Mirror

It’s not just that Lee Anderson is wrong about hanging: he’s also the wrong man to stop the Tories sinking

Hankering for the death penalty may get the deputy chair attention, but it won’t attract working-class voters with genuine problems, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

People of Britain – how can you look at our leaders and say there is nothing to laugh about?

If there is a laughter deficit in this country, perhaps we are to blame. It’s a target- rich environment, says author and broadcaster Nels Abbey

The Guardian - UK

Tory chief Lee Anderson moaned party had ruined the NHS in angry rant

Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson complained that NHS services had gone downhill since the Tories took over in a Facebook post that has come back to haunt him

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XR, smacking and asylum: Lee Anderson’s history of speaking out

The Conservative party’s new deputy chair has weighed in on a wide range of issues over the years

The Guardian - UK

BBC Question Time: Tories blasted by 'appalled' audience over death penalty

A Tory minister was blasted for sitting through 'another round of musical chairs' on BBC Question Time following the controversy over Lee Anderson's appointment to a senior role

Daily Mirror

Molly-Mae Hague addresses 'nasty' backlash over unique baby name

A tearful Molly-Mae spoke of her 'hard day'

Nottingham Post

Tory MP Lee Anderson linked to 'far-right veteran' with white supremacist tattoo

THE Conservative Party is facing questions about its new deputy chair’s views on white supremacy.

The National (Scotland)

Dear Lee Anderson: Derek Bentley was innocent and hanged. We scrapped the death penalty for a reason

There were moral and practical considerations to ending the barbarity of state executions in Britain. They are still relevant today, says writer and former Guardian crime correspondent Duncan Campbell

The Guardian - UK

Mixed views after Lee Anderson calls for return of death penalty and rows with BBC Nottingham presenter

The outspoken Ashfield MP has just been made deputy Conservative Party chairman

Nottingham Post

'Whatever point she was making': Alister Jack dismisses plea for detail on Section 35

ALISTER Jack has once again dismissed pleas from Holyrood for more detail on why the UK Government issued a Section 35 order to block gender reform…

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New Tory chief Lee Anderson vows to 'graft' - while on taxpayer-funded jolly in sunshine

Controversial Tory boss Lee Anderson posed in front of palm trees as he celebrated his promotion to deputy party chairman while on a trip to Uruguay, where temperatures have hit 34C (93.2f) this week

Evening Standard

Talking Point: What do you think of Lee Anderson backing the return of the death penalty?

The new deputy chairman of the Conservatives has defended his view that there are some instances where capital punishment is appropriate

The Independent UK

Ball remains in Scottish Government’s court on gender recognition reforms – Jack

The Scottish Secretary said he ‘simply did not agree’ with SNP minister Shona Robison on the use of Section 35.

Evening Standard

Tory MPs standing down spell trouble for Sunak

The new Tory deputy party chair, Lee Anderson, made headlines this morning for his views on the death penalty and after clashing with a BBC radio presenter over accusations of dishonesty. But it was the decision taken off-stage by a fellow red wall MP that tells us far more about…

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Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson clashes with BBC presenter over fake doorstep chat

‘We’ve established you’re dishonest and you tell lies’, Tory MP tells local radio host

The Independent UK

Lee Anderson clashes with BBC presenter over fake doorstep chat

‘We’ve established you’re dishonest and you tell lies’, Tory MP tells local radio host

Evening Standard

When did the death penalty become illegal in the UK? Alabama killer was first to be executed with nitrogen gas

The death penalty is illegal in the UK and nobody has been executed here for nearly 60 years

The Independent UK

Sunak distances himself from Anderson’s death penalty views

Deputy Tory chairman Lee Anderson said ‘Nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed’.

Daily Mirror

Tory Lee Anderson asks presenter 10 times if she's ever lied in bizarre interview

The new deputy chairman repeatedly asked his interviewer on BBC Radio Nottingham if she had ever told a lie when she tried to ask him about a 2019 incident when he was caught persuading a pal to pretend to be an anti-Labour swing voter

Evening Standard

Lee Anderson defends death penalty comment amid criticism of ‘daft’ remarks

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rejected any calls for a return of executions

Evening Standard

Lee Anderson: Deputy Tory party chairman clashes with radio interviewer over dishonesty claims

Newly appointed deputy Conservative Party chairman Lee Anderson has clashed with a radio presenter over accusations of dishonesty.

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