Is Lee Anderson No. 10's secret weapon?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The chatter in Westminster has been dominated by comments the new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party gave to James Heale, The Spectator's diary editor, in an interview published today. When asked if he was in support of the death penalty, Lee Anderson said: 'Yes. Nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed. You know that, don’t you? 100 per cent success rate.’

On the podcast, Isabel Hardman talks to James and Katy Balls about whether No. 10 anticipated that the Conservative Party's new deputy chairman would be making quite so many headlines, so soon into his promotion.

Produced by Cindy Yu.

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0:16.0	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,
0:17.9	the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.
0:20.3	I'm Isra Harbment, I'm joined by James Hill and Katie Bouls.
0:24.8	Well, Leanderson has made quite an impact in his first few days
0:29.6	in the job and it's thanks to you James, so just explain your part in his upfall.
0:35.7	Well, last Wednesday, a few hours after our magazine issue went to press.
0:40.3	I went to interview him in his office in the House of Commons.
0:42.8	And I think the reason why it was twofold, one of which was
0:46.6	my political editor Katie Bouls suggested that in light of the current focus on cost of living,
0:50.8	you know, Leanderson is one of the few and piece fields able to talk about issues
0:53.4	that are personal, budgeting and responsibility in the current financial climate.
0:57.2	And Leanderson obviously has made a number of posts saying that nurses
1:00.2	were any staff who were more than £30,000 a year and they're using food banks.
1:04.0	There must be a budgeting problem there, so that's first being about his role in the cost of living crisis.
1:07.6	The second thing is I was talking to a lot of MPs and they were saying positive things about him,
1:10.7	he was doing a lot of speaking engagements, could see it,
1:12.6	it's popping off on Twitter, etc.
1:14.3	So I wanted to talk to him as role within the party.
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