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Tory MP Lee Anderson
[UK Parliament / Creative Commons]
RISHI SUNAK has distanced himself from newly appointed deputy Tory chairman Lee Anderson over his comments supporting the return of the death penalty.
In an interview with the Spectator, Mr Anderson said he would support Britain reintroducing capital punishment because “nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed.”
“You know that, don’t you? 100 per cent success rate,” he told the right-wing publication.
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet