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Voices: Lee Anderson has a Brown friend? I’ll be his Black friend for a fee…

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Lee Anderson, the former Tory deputy chairman and now a Reform UK parliamentary candidate, has never been one to shy away from a controversial comment.

If you don’t like one opinion – plangent support for the death penalty (“100 per cent success rate”), or that “nuisance tenants” should be forced to live in a field in tents and pick potatoes – he’s got plenty of others.

He earned the glorious nickname after claiming that healthy and nutritious meals could be made for and that people who use them simply “cannot cook properly”.

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