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‘I’m not some toffee-nosed Tory’

Lee Anderson on poverty, immigration and the death penalty

11 February 2023

9:00 AM

11 February 2023

9:00 AM

Who is the worst man in Britain? According to the Daily Mirror, it’s the 56-year-old former coal miner and Tory MP Lee Anderson, who clinched the award a year ago after criticising England’s footballers for ‘taking the knee’. How did Anderson, who this week was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Tory party, respond to the accolade? ‘I immediately rang my parents to thank them for all their support.

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