Rishi Sunak’s D-Day ‘error was because his grandparents did not serve in the war’, claims Conservative defector and Reform candidate Lee Anderson
A reform candidate who defected from the Tories has claimed that Rishi Sunak made an error of judgment at the D-Day commemorations because his grandparents had not served in the war.
Lee Anderson, the former Conservative MP for Ashfield, is leading in the Nottinghamshire constituency Nigel Farage‘s party also described Channel Boat migrants as ‘f*****s’.
Anderson’s comments come as The Mail on Sunday has found that Reform candidates who were suspended or removed from the candidate list following allegations about their behavior have been quietly reinstated.
They include Guy Lachlan, 58, who was removed from the list for the seat of St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire for sharing offensive material, including liking a tweet from the far-right anti-Muslim Britain First party and a tweet stating that the anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson ‘is not entirely wrong’.
In a bizarre post, the car lube company owner claimed there were “too many people” on the planet, described humanity as “bacteria” and said “policies should include child restriction, sterilization and euthanasia.”
Lee Anderson, who stands for Nigel Farage’s party in the Nottinghamshire constituency, has described the Channel boat migrants as ‘f*****s’
Rishi Sunak imagined himself campaigning in Redcar in North East England on June 1
According to Reform’s website, he is now back as a candidate for the seat. Anderson, a former deputy leader of the Tory party, had the Conservative whip suspended in February after refusing to apologize for claiming “Islamists” were “in control” of London’s mayor Sadiq Khan and sir Keir Starmer. In March he defected to Reform.
Blunt Anderson told The MoS: “Many of the people you’ve spoken to here are struggling to pay their rent and mortgages.
‘They have to watch every cent. Then they turn on the television in the evening and watch 500 illegal immigrants pass by, stopping in a four-star hotel. And then these bastards in these army camps whine about their conditions.”
And in response to the row over Rishi Sunak’s early return from D-Day celebrations, Anderson controversially raised the fact that Sunak’s parents, who are of Indian descent, moved from East Africa to Great Britain in the 1960s. emigrated to Britain.
Anderson said, “Some people don’t realize how important this day is. I have grandparents who served. Not Rishi. He doesn’t have that link.’
The former miner and ex-Labour supporter – he was suspended from the party in 2018 for using boulders to deter members of the Traveler community from setting up camp in the area – is defending a majority of 5,700 people in Ashfield .
