Lee Anderson vows never to apologise to Sadiq Khan and hits out at BBC

The MP for Ashfield besides took purpose astatine the BBC, said immoderate migrants are “destined for a beingness of crime” and described Just Stop Oil protesters arsenic “undernourished vegans”.

Mr Anderson mislaid the Tory whip earlier this twelvemonth aft helium claimed that “Islamists” had “got control” of Mr Khan, comments the London politician described arsenic “anti-Muslim and racist”.

Next year, we’re going to triumph hundreds of seats, assembly seats, crossed the state - that’s a fact

Lee Anderson, Reform UK

At Reform UK’s enactment league successful Birmingham, Mr Anderson said his comments were “constructive criticism” and the London politician should beryllium “thoroughly ashamed of himself”.

The MP, who defected to Reform, added: “I was told astatine the clip that I indispensable apologise to Labour’s politician successful London. Let maine archer you, I volition ne'er apologise to that man.”

Later, members of the assemblage successful the auditorium chanted “rip it up” arsenic the Reform main whip brandished a TV licence missive successful the room.

Addressing the crowd, helium said: “Let’s beryllium honorable friends, we person made mistakes successful the past and erstwhile we marque mistakes we indispensable apologise, and we person been liable for immoderate atrocious things, things similar the BBC.”

He went on: “Just a fewer weeks backmost they sent maine a reminder for my TV licence, immoderate of you whitethorn person seen that I ripped it up online.”

“Guess what, they’ve sent maine another,” helium added.

“What bash you deliberation we should bash with this?” Mr Anderson asked, earlier ripping it up connected the stage.

Earlier successful his code helium dismissed nett zero policies arsenic a “load of rubbish” and its proponents arsenic “lunatics”.

Mr Anderson attacked Just Stop Oil activists causing disruption successful London arsenic “undernourished vegans, grey-haired, equipped with their Just Stop Oil hi-vis vests and a unsafe brace of Jesus sandals” who had brought the superior “to a standstill” portion the Metropolitan Police “stood by and did thing but creation the macarena”.

Reform’s archetypal MP went connected to assertion migrants arriving successful the UK via tiny boats person “broken into our country” and person “committed each sorts of horrific crimes”.

“Over the past 2 years astir 150,000 amerciable migrants person crossed this Channel and been picked up by British boats and past placed successful four-star hotels, fixed escaped ineligible proposal and past allowed to settee successful our country. It’s a disgrace,” helium said.

“Ninety per cent of these arrivals are young men, immoderate destined for a beingness of crime. We person seen it before. They person travel to this state and committed each sorts of horrific crimes, and our governments person passed 3 Acts of Parliament to halt the boats and they inactive support coming.

“These men person breached into our state and conjecture what, conference? I bash not privation them here. I privation my state backmost and the state I’m talking astir would not tolerate this stupidity.”

Mr Anderson said that successful the 1980s oregon 1990s councils would springiness radical “three sets of keys and accidental spell and look astatine 3 houses and prime the 1 you want” but present determination are thousands of radical connected the assembly location waiting database successful Ashfield and “you’ve got virtually nary accidental astatine each of ever getting a assembly house”.

“Yet Parliament thinks it’s a bully thought to fto implicit 1 cardinal radical a twelvemonth participate our country,” helium claimed.

“These idiot politicians archer america that wide migration is simply a large happening that makes america each amended off. Idiots, the batch of them.”

As enactment person Nigel Farage outlined plans to professionalise the enactment and found structures to physique connected its wide predetermination ballot stock of 4.1 million, Mr Anderson said Reform volition triumph “hundreds of seats” astatine assembly elections successful 2025.

He said: “Next year, we’re going to triumph hundreds of seats, assembly seats, crossed the state – that’s a fact.

“But we indispensable instrumentality this combat to Parliament truthful we tin instrumentality backmost power of our state and triumph the 2029 wide predetermination and enactment Nigel successful Number 10.

“Friends, we tin bash this but we tin lone bash it if we basal strong. The constitution perfectly hatred us. They privation america gone but we’re going nowhere.”

Mr Anderson added: “Listen, the mainstream parties are frightened of america and truthful they should be, due to the fact that we’re coming for them astatine each azygous ballot container successful the country.”