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Lee Anderson: Let’s get this (new?) party started
As the currently whipless Tory MP Lee Anderson ponders whether to jump ship and pledge allegiance to the xenophobic upstart party Reform UK, STEPHEN ARNELL looks at a Blackshirted parallel from 93 years ago
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“HE’S given our capital city away to his mates. I don’t actually believe that the Islamists have got control of our country, but what I do believe is they’ve got control of Khan, and they’ve got control of London.”
After his bigoted and patently false remarks regarding London Mayor Sadiq Khan last week, Lee Anderson was stripped (temporarily?) of the Tory whip — perhaps to his surprise, considering the unhinged conspiracy-mongering utterances of fellow right-wing headbangers like former PM Liz Truss and former home secretary Suella Braverman over the same period.
“The truth is that the Islamists, the extremists and the anti-semites are in charge now. They have bullied the Labour Party, they have bullied our institutions, and now they have bullied our country into submission,” wrote Braverman.
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