The party chairman says 'nothing is off the table' if Lee Anderson apologises for comments about Sadiq Khan
The Conservative Party's chairman says "nothing is off the table" when asked if they would welcome Lee Anderson back nearly a month after suspending him. The Ashfield MP initially continued as an independent before announcing on Monday that he had joined Richard Tice's Reform UK party.
"Lee's made very clear himself on previous occasions that a vote for Reform will only help Labour at a national level and that is also true at a local level as well." Responding to the idea that his defection to Reform would end up with Labour winning Ashfield, Lee Anderson said: "A vote for Reform is a vote for Reform - it's as simple as that."
"I think there's a difference, though, in this instance, where he just said something which was factually untrue. All Lee Anderson, if he wants to come back to the Conservative Party, needs to do is make it clear that what he said was clumsy and wrong on the specific issue around the Mayor of London and whether he's controlled by Islamists.
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