Lee Anderson: from Labour councillor to Labour wind-up merchant

For the Tories he was a useful counterpart to the party’s pinstripes and privilege brigade, but then he went too far. Or did he?

Lee Anderson, the former miner turned MP for Ashfield, has caused more controversy in his four-and-a-bit years in parliament than most of the 2019 intake combined.

Before he was even elected, Labour was calling for him to be sacked, after he suggested nuisance social housing tenants should be evicted into tents and made to pick vegetables.