Ex-Tory MP Lee Anderson has said he is no mercenary after joining Reform UK as he denied being paid to switch allegiances. Mr Anderson also told GB News the Conservative Party had not contacted him ahead of being unveiled as Reform’s first MP.
The MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire had been forced to sit as an independent after being stripped of the Tory whip last month for suggesting London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan was being controlled by Islamist extremists.
He refused to apologise for the remarks that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak branded “wrong”, effectively blocking off any route to being brought back into the Tory fold.
On Monday evening during an appearance on GB News, which pays him £100,000 a year for hosting a show, on top of his £86,584 pay as an MP, Mr Anderson denied any money exchanged hands ahead of his Reform defection.
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