The Latest Breaking News from Lee Anderson

By suggesting that Islamists had “got control of [Sadiq] Khan” and “control of London”, former Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson was speaking in patently Islamophobic terms. The Mayor is a Muslim, as are approximately 1.3 million Londoners. To remark that leaves Khan in the pocket of Islamists is racist.

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Oliver Dowden said he does not believe the former deputy Tory chairman was ‘intending’ to be Islamophobic.

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Lee Anderson will now sit as an independent lawmaker in parliament after his remarks prompted a flood of criticism.