There’s a drama a day in Westminster. Today’s bust-up is between Reform MP Lee Anderson and the party’s former deputy leader Ben Habib who accused him of plagiarism. Following the jibe, the Ashfield MP took to Twitter to brand Habib a ‘pathetic little man’ trying to ‘smear’ Reform. And you thought Mike Amesbury was punchy…
Early this morning Anderson posted online a long list of Labour failures – with the Reform MP claiming Sir Keir Starmer’s army would ‘never have been elected if voters had been told the truth’. While the politician’s post was lauded by his supporters, Habib was quick to spot a rather disgruntled reply from an account that had posted the exact same tweet several weeks before. ‘Does Reform UK endorse plagiarism?’ he fumed. ‘Things go from bad to worse. So much for integrity.’ Ouch.
Not that Anderson was pulling any punches. The Ashfield MP first claimed he had been sent a copy-and-pasted version of the original post by a friend before thanking the user for their ‘great and well written’ intervention.
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