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Lee Anderson

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Lee Anderson
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Lee Anderson is a Reform MP for Ashfield, Reform's Chief Whip, and Chair of Reform UK since May 2026. He is also a presenter on GB News, for which he earns £100,000 per year on top of his MP salary. A former coal miner, Anderson served as a Labour councillor on Ashfield District Council from 2015, before being suspended in February 2018 after using a digger to place concrete blocks at a car park entrance to prevent Travellers from setting up camp. He defected to the Conservatives in March 2018, citing the "takeover" of Labour by the hard left, and was elected as Conservative MP for Ashfield in 2019. In February 2024, he was suspended from the Conservative Party after claiming on GB News that "Islamists have got control" of London Mayor Sadiq Khan and refusing to apologise. He joined Reform in March 2024, becoming its first MP, and was re-elected as a Reform MP in the 2024 general election.

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Reform UK Lee Anderson is a Reform MP. He is also Reform's Chief Whip and in May 2026 became Reform's Chair [src][src]
GB News Anderson is a presenter on GB News [src]
Conservative Party former Anderson was previously a Conservative MP, before being suspended in February 2024 for claiming on GB News that London is controlled by "Islamists". Anderson joined Reform in March 2024, making him Reform's first MP. He was then elected as a Reform MP in the 2024 General Election [src][src][src][src]
Popular Conservatism Anderson spoke at the launch of Popular Conservatism and has participated in other events organised by the organisation [src][src]
Labour Party former Lee Anderson was formerly a Labour councillor, before defecting to the Conservative Party in 2018, blaming the left-wing pro-Corbyn movement who had supposedly "taken over" the party. Anderson had also been suspended by the Labour Party for hiring a digger to place concrete blocks in front of a car park to stop Travellers illegally parking in it. [src]
Nigel Farage Farage and Anderson are colleagues at both Reform UK and the broadcaster GB News. At Reform, they are both MPs and Farage is leader and Anderson is Reform Chairman (as of May 2026) and Chief Whip. They are both also GB News presenters. [src]
Michael Hintze Hintze donated £3,000 to Anderson in October 2023 [src]

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Ongoing arrangement declared: GB News Limited, Presenter/Contributor on GB News at £100,000/month (Agreement starting 01 March 2023 - £100,000.00)
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