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Lee Anderson, a former Conservative party deputy chairman, had the whip withdrawn after responding to an article by Suella Braverman that said: ‘The Islamists, the extremists and the anti-Semites are in charge now.’ He said: ‘I don’t actually believe that the Islamists have got control of our country, but what I do believe is they’ve got control of [Sadiq] Khan and they’ve got control of London, and they’ve got control of [Keir] Starmer as well.’ He later added: ‘They are laughing at our police. This stems with Khan, he’s actually given our capital city away to his mates.’ Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, said the comments were ‘not acceptable. They were wrong’. Khan, the Mayor of London, accused the Conservatives of ‘a strategy to weaponise anti-Muslim prejudice’.
The row followed remarks by Sir Lindsay Hoyle, the Speaker of the House of Commons, during a debate on a Scottish National party motion about a ceasefire in Gaza, after he allowed a Labour amendment to be considered first, in defiance of precedent.
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