Lee Anderson says he is not ruling out defecting to Reform UK

Tory suspended over comments about Sadiq Khan would be populist party’s first MP if he joined

Lee Anderson has said he is not ruling out defecting to Reform UK, in a move that would give the rightwing populist party its first MP.

Anderson, a former Conservative party deputy chair, who has been suspended from sitting as a Tory MP because of his comments about the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said he had “been on a political journey” when pressed about whether he would join Reform.