Lee Anderson is no stranger to controversy. When he was deputy leader of the Conservative Party, he earned the nickname “30p Lee'' after criticizing food bank users who claimed they could prepare a meal for 30p per person due to insufficient funding. He called for the reinstatement of the death penalty and said: daily express If asylum seekers didn't like how they were being treated, they could just “go back to France.”
So it came as no surprise to anyone that when he appeared on the right-wing GB news channel last week, he factored in the discussion of pro-Palestinian protests in his usual style. But this time he found himself at the center of a political storm that did not blow over. He claimed that “Islamists” had “taken control” of London Mayor Sadiq Khan.as archie brand To tell Nosheen Iqbal, he was suspended from Congress for refusing to apologize. But when senior Conservative Party leaders were asked the exact reason for his suspension, no one said Mr Lee's comments were Islamophobic.
This conflict intensified the conflict and led to the participation of members of the Islamic Party, including former members of parliament. Sajjad Karim He has expressed serious doubts about the direction the party is heading. He describes what it was like to be a card-carrying Muslim Conservative Party member this past week for him, and why his membership card has now been thrown in the trash.
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