Lee Anderson suspended from Tory party over Sadiq Khan comments
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the reasons behind Lee Anderson’s suspension from the Tory party after "refusing to apologise" for comments aimed at Sadiq Khan. The London Mayor has accused Anderson of racism.
Laura and Paddy also speak to Vadym Prystaiko, former Ukrainian ambassador to the UK, about the two year anniversary of the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine, and about his sacking by Volodymyr Zelensky.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | So hello again. |
| 0:05.7 | Hello again. |
| 0:06.7 | Why again? |
| 0:07.6 | Again, because we recorded the first part of this podcast or our first attempt at Saturday |
| 0:12.4 | Newscast at 225 and during that |
| 0:15.8 | podcast we both said it's very likely that the Conservative Party is going to have to do |
| 0:20.4 | something about its MP Lee Anderson who had offended a lot of people by claiming that |
| 0:25.2 | Siddiquan the London mayor is being controlled by Islamists. |
| 0:29.3 | So we thought something would happen. |
| 0:30.6 | We left the studio. |
| 0:31.6 | I went to a popular bakery and |
| 0:32.7 | bought a pasty for you actually that's very kind and in that time something did |
| 0:37.5 | actually happen he's been suspended and it's now three thirty four and we have |
| 0:42.0 | reunited in the newscast studio to tell you what's been going on. |
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