Lee Anderson

The Guardian has been given exclusive access to the new deputy chair of the party's 10-point plan.

Either we need to send out gunboats and shoot them out of the water, or we need to mine the Kent beaches. We should also get rid of the title Ms. Back in my day, we cheered when the albatross got it in the neck when we read the Ancient Mariner. Six strokes of the birch and children would think twice about talking back to a teacher. Give them a clip round the ear when you catch them littering at a bus stop and they start yelling about being violated and threaten to take you to the European court of human rights in Strasbourg. The sooner the rest of the UK understands that what’s good for England is good for them the better. If people want to eat, they should learn to get a job and not waste their money on trying to heat their homes. So now is the time to bring back hanging. If Brexit means anything then we should all have the right to Taser oiks in the street. For far too long we’ve wasted far too much time on trying to keep the rest of the United Kingdom happy. Give us a team of which we can be proud. Even if they hadn’t done that crime they would probably have gone on to commit another one.

The PM said neither he nor the government shared Mr Anderson's stance. But Labour accused Rishi Sunak of not being strong enough to stand up to what it called ...

"Well, you can prove it if they have videoed it and are on camera - like the Lee Rigby killers. I don't want to pay for these people." Tory MP Michael Fabricant said he didn't want to see a return of the death penalty but "from time to time it's worth debating". In the interview, conducted a few days before he was made deputy chairman on Tuesday but published after his appointment, Mr Anderson was asked whether he would support the return of the death penalty. The new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson, has said he would support the return of the death penalty. [In an interview with the Spectator](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lee-anderson-capital-punishment-100-effective/) before he was appointed to the role, he argued "nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed".

The newly appointed deputy Conservative Party chairman has backed the return of the death penalty and accused a radio presenter of dishonesty in a combative ...

A survey of 1,191 members carried out as part of his work on party membership after the 2019 election found 53% agreed that “for some crimes, the death penalty is the most appropriate sentence”. And they’d just stop coming.” Asked if he believes that some working people are having to use food banks, Mr Anderson replied: “No.” An expert on the views of political party members pointed out that many Tories would agree with Mr Anderson’s views on the death penalty. When she said that she had, Mr Anderson said: “So you’re dishonest.” In an interview with The Spectator magazine a few days before his appointment, Mr Anderson said he would support the UK reintroducing the death penalty.

The outspoken Ashfield MP has just been made deputy Conservative Party chairman.

One reader said: "One thing you definitely can't argue with is when he stated anyone over 30k does not need a food bank. A different reader added: "Retire, Lee, before you're sacked." One of our Facebook commenters said: "One of the worst political interviews in recent time. "He asked the the same question over and over, yet can't answer an awful lot," another reader said about the radio interview. He added: "Nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed. Mr Anderson had said that "nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed" to justify his position.

Anderson, no stranger to controversy, told the Spectator that he would support the return of the death penalty because “nobody has ever committed a crime after ...

Anderson was asked whether he would support the return of the death penalty. Together we can find the stories that get lost. Anderson’s comments drew condemnation online, with one social media user commenting: “I see tory knuckle dragger Lee Anderson is now supporting the resurrection of the death penalty. We deliver progressive, independent media, that challenges the right’s hateful rhetoric. But there’s a problem: we need readers like you to He replied: “Yes.”

The newly appointed deputy Conservative Party chairman has backed the return of the death penalty and accused a radio presenter of dishonesty in a combative ...

A survey of 1,191 members carried out as part of his work on party membership after the 2019 election found 53% agreed that “for some crimes, the death penalty is the most appropriate sentence”. And they’d just stop coming.” Asked if he believes that some working people are having to use food banks, Mr Anderson replied: “No.” An expert on the views of political party members pointed out that many Tories would agree with Mr Anderson’s views on the death penalty. When she said that she had, Mr Anderson said: “So you’re dishonest.” In an interview with The Spectator magazine a few days before his appointment, Mr Anderson said he would support the UK reintroducing the death penalty.

Lee Anderson, the recently-appointed Tory party deputy chairman, has sparked a political row with his comments on capital punishment.

What is behind all this is the strong sense of fair-mindedness that pervades the British psyche. Murder and the rape of a child is where we are near-unanimous that the offender should serve no less than fifteen years. But regardless of what works, we will not be seeing rehabilitative reform at the forefront of any election manifestos. I do not pretend to know what the right solution to crime rates is. It is not that people have not thought through the question. The same goes for Conservative and Labour voters. On the graph below every punishment that involves jail time is a shade of red. For all but five crimes listed, more than half of the public want to see people do jail time. The fact it may become an offence might be controversial to MPs, but will not be met by much criticism from the public. We can dismiss as statistical noise, the Prime Minister will be pleased to hear, the 1 per cent of Brits who say it should be met with life behind bars. You can never be too tough on crime, is the verdict of many voters. [interview](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lee-anderson-capital-punishment-100-effective/) with The Spectator.

It's the reshuffle move that everyone is talking about. The promotion of Lee Anderson to Tory deputy chairman has excited the Westminster press pack no end, ...

But some hacks, it seems, have now overstepped the mark. A The promotion of Lee Anderson to Tory deputy chairman has excited the Westminster press pack no end, with the Ashfield MP making headlines within his first 24 hours in the job.

Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson complained that NHS services had gone downhill since the Tories took over in a Facebook post that has come ...

We are sat here now waiting for a bed to come free at our hospital, WE HAVE BEEN WAITING A WEEK. The MP’s promotion this week came just days after he compared the government to “the band on the Titanic” in leaked “Drugs are harder to get. And yesterday the Mirror revealed that he had posted a video pledging to “graft” around the clock in his new job whilst on a sun-soaked taxpayer-funded jolly to Uruguay. “Under this Tory government we have really noticed the decline in the NHS,” he wrote on [Rishi Sunak](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/rishi-sunak) as deputy chairman of the [Conservative Party](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/conservative-party) earlier this week.

A BBC Question Time audience member has taken the Tories apart after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appointed Lee Anderson as deputy chair of the party. Anderson, ...

Together we can find the stories that get lost. We deliver progressive, independent media, that challenges the right’s hateful rhetoric. “Since that time, we have seen the home secretary peddling dangerous right-wing rhetoric.

Hankering for the death penalty may get the deputy chair attention, but it won't attract working-class voters with genuine problems, says Guardian columnist ...

In other words, most people still want practical solutions to practical problems, from making ends meet to feeling safe going to the shops; it’s a narrow and in some ways equally out-of-touch view of working-class voters that assumes otherwise. Mirror people’s gut feelings back at them, and it’s true you’ll always have a hearing in the pub. Both reports were picking up on frustration with the kind of petty violence, vandalism and antisocial behaviour that makes older people scared to leave the house, and makes town centres or parks look depressingly rundown. Crime is a huge and underrated issue in many of their seats, as But interestingly, even in the year of what turned out to be the great Tory landslide, the Conservative vote actually The question isn’t whether some voters share Anderson’s views – of course they do – or even whether it’s incredibly useful for a government overseeing so many people plunging into poverty to have as its human smokescreen a man who was once hard up himself, but still seems to think poor people have it too easy. [Greg Hands](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/08/new-tory-party-chair-greg-hands-english-local-elections-difficult), the new party chairman, will reassure all the soft, remain-voting southern Tories currently fleeing to the Liberal Democrats, while Anderson talks to northern leavers. The official Tory line on Anderson is that if what he says upsets you, then you’re a snob or out of touch. After all, De Piero had only just held on at the previous election, and the tide was flowing strongly against Jeremy Corbyn’s party in towns such as this. It was a bitter campaign – the day I went to Ashfield, someone had just smashed the window of Labour’s campaign office – and while the new Labour candidate seemed impressive, I came away privately thinking she was doomed. Sometimes, admittedly, it turns out they didn’t even commit the crimes they were actually executed for, but Anderson seems to think there are ways around that. Why you’d want to make one of them

MP Lee Anderson, the outspoken 'Red Wall rottweiler', was made deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in this week's reshuffle.

It is undoubtedly a [hilarious piece of footage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LmS9CzAY_s). [doorstep encounter with ‘a constituent’](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50558306). [boycotting England matches](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/06/tory-mp-to-boycott-england-games-in-row-over-taking-the-knee) over players taking the knee. But is it really worth interrogating him over it, three years on, as one [BBC Radio Nottingham presenter](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-64573457) did this week? Yet while Guardianistas fawn over the middle-class Monroe for her cooking-on-a-budget shtick, they slam the working-class Anderson for making a similar point. Was it really so different to the cheap cooking advice dished out by lefty luvvie But Anderson isn’t just loathed for having the ‘wrong’ opinions. In November, he said that illegal immigrants should be ‘ [sent back](https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/nottinghamshire-mp-lee-anderson-says-illegal-immigrants-should-be-sent-back/ar-AA13Qbox)’ to their countries of origin, prompting anger from the usual suspects. During the Euro 2020 tournament in 2021, he was mocked by right-on liberals for Following the Spectator interview, former Sun editor (and now It’s been seen as a divisive appointment to say the least. It is not an unpopular opinion: according to YouGov, 52 per cent of voters think those found guilty of multiple murders should indeed face capital punishment.

New deputy Conservative Party chairman says it must 'stop pandering to footballers' over policies that are 'not a vote winner'

[reaching zero emissions by 2050](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/0/net-zero-strategy-2030-cop26-government-policies-earth-day-2022/), which was included in the 2019 Tory manifesto, was “not a vote winner” and that it “never comes up” when speaking to his constituents about their concerns. “I want to win my seat again as a Conservative. “It was personal – the pits were closing, that was our livelihoods,” he said. [forced to reject](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/09/rishi-sunak-rejects-lee-andersons-call-return-death-penalty/) Mr Anderson’s call for [the return of the death penalty](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/09/lee-anderson-victim-intellectual-snobbery-death-penalty-comments/) in a separate interview with The Spectator, also carried out prior to taking on his new role. [his party faced “big, big trouble”](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/10/dont-think-win-tories-stepping-next-election-why-quitting/) unless it had “sorted or appear to have sorted” [the migrant crisis](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/13/will-end-channel-migrant-crisis/) by the end of March. [“woke nonsense” in Whitehall](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/30/senior-whitehall-officials-accused-wasting-time-woke-projects/). But that said, it is [Margaret Thatcher](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/17/truss-has-proved-poor-imitation-mrs-thatcher/) because of the impact of closures on their community. [In his reshuffle this week](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/07/rishi-sunak-cabinet-reshuffle-next-tory-chair-ministers/), Rishi Sunak created a new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, designed to bring down bills and “seize the opportunities of net zero”. [unfair on the poorest in society](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/13/reaching-net-zero-would-cost-taxpayers-twice-much-no-10s-estimates/), because they’re paying the price.” [new deputy Conservative chairman](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/08/new-tory-deputy-chairman-lee-anderson-backs-death-penalty/), has said voters are “sick to death” of hearing about [net zero](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/08/slash-energy-use-15pc-new-net-zero-department-urge-households/). [efforts to bring down emissions](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/09/traditional-log-fires-could-banned-areas-cut-air-pollution/), in remarks made before his appointment on Tuesday.

Brian Reade believes the elevation of the 'bring back capital punishment' MP could have a silver lining for Labour hopes at a General Election.

The war that needs to be won, if we want to preserve civilisation, is the one on woke. And it is meant to literally put the fear of God into you. Yet they choose to be offended by any move that doesn’t suit their set way of thinking. You may believe that the war that needs to be won right now is the one in Ukraine. But if you listen to the right-wing media you will discover that you are most definitely wrong. You may believe that the most important issue you need to deal with is how you are going to pay your bills over the coming months.