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Lee Anderson defends Sunak

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There’s a lot of grumbling right now about Rishi Sunak on the right. So it must have been to the Prime Minister’s relief that there’s at least one no-nonsense Tory he can always depend on. Step forward Lee Anderson, the party’s deputy chairman and stalwart member of the Common Sense Group. Just a few hours after the PM’s spokesman defended Anderson’s comments about defying the Rwanda court judgement, the former miner repaid the favour, going on GB News to quash rumours that he is thinking of resigning. He told Patrick Christys that that talk of a leadership election is ‘absolute nonsense’, saying:

Let me just tell you now, here on GB News, there’s no way there’s going to be a leadership contest. We don’t need a leadership contest, we need to let Rishi crack on with the job. There’s one letter gone in and this is the thing. If there was a leadership election Rishi would win, hands down.

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