Ashfield MP Lee Anderson has been promoted to deputy party chair, in a move that has caused disquiet among Tory MPs given his history of controversial comments
Just last week Lee Anderson compared the government to the"band on the Titanic" in a heated WhatsApp exchange about small boat crossings.
"I think you'll see first-hand that there's not this massive use for food banks in this country," he said. However, the tweet was met with significant backlash by fellow social media users who accused him of using his employee to make a political point. "For the first time in my life I will not be watching my beloved England team whilst they are supporting a political movement whose core principles aim to undermine our very way of life," he said in a Facebook post.
"Meet me in the boxing ring, let's do three rounds, and if I win, he never protests out there again."A former Labour councillor, Mr Anderson achieved notoriety even before entering parliament after defecting to the Tories and then suggesting"nuisance tenants" living on a council estate should be evicted into tents in a field to pick vegetables during the 2019 election campaign.
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