Lee Anderson wants his country back
The News Agents
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🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Lee Anderson has defected to the Reform Party, saying he’d done a lot of soul-searching on his political journey, and wants his country back.
He had of course already been kicked out of the Conservative Party for those ‘islamist’ slurs against Sadiq Khan, so when we say ‘defected’ we mean from being a party-less whip-less MP. Nevertheless, the move may chill his former colleagues - and the PM himself, who will wonder if the Lee he championed as his former deputy chair DOES in fact ‘speak for millions around the country’ and whether he will take voters with him.
Later, ’THAT PHOTO’. Why the news agencies wont touch it, and why the apology from the Princes of Wales did little to clarify. Do we owe our Royals privacy ? Or do they owe us transparency? The News Agents have a heated debate.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | I want my country back. Over the last year or so, I've had to do a lot of soul searching on my political journey. |
| 0:19.8 | And it was laughing. |
| 0:23.1 | And I don't expect much in politics other than to be able to speak my mind and speak on behalf, |
| 0:33.3 | is that you, Harry laughing? |
| 0:35.3 | Speak on behalf of my friends, family. |
| 0:38.0 | Well, that was Lee Anderson. |
| 0:38.8 | The Tory former Deputy Party chair, now the Reform Party's newest, shiniest, |
| 0:45.5 | Borbel, their new MP. |
| 0:47.1 | Their only MP. |
| 0:49.1 | And who was laughing? |
| 0:51.1 | Well, actually, there were quite a few people laughing because there was something |
| 0:56.0 | faintly preposterous about the whole news conference, particularly that Reform had set up a stand, |
| 1:03.0 | a rostrum where people would speak and they put the UK flag, the Union Jack, straight in front |
| 1:08.7 | of it so that you couldn't actually see |
| 1:10.8 | Lee Anderson when he was there and they're trying to move it as he speaks. |
| 1:14.8 | That was the bit that was funny. But for Rishi Sunak, it's actually deadly serious because |
| 1:20.2 | reform now has an MP in Parliament. It now has an even more potent threat at the next general |
| 1:26.7 | election and there will be many Conservative MPs that's saying you have to sue It now has an even more potent threat at the next general election, |
| 1:34.0 | and there will be many Conservative MPs saying you have to sue for peace with reform. |
| 1:38.4 | And that drags Rishi Sunak even further to the right. |
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