Will Lee Anderson be ousted from PopCon?

Liz Truss launched her Popular Conservatism movement — catchily dubbed PopCon — just over a month ago. Taking aim at ‘left wing extremists’, Truss hit out at colleagues more interested in pursuing policies popular at ‘London dinner parties’ and explained that her new group would champion true Tory values. But it wasn’t just lefties that didn’t fare well. Before PopCon had even launched, event organisers ousted Simon Clarke MP from the speaker line-up after he called for Rishi Sunak to go.

Could Lee Anderson be next? The former deputy chairman of the Conservative party was one of PopCon’s star speakers. Cracking jokes about how he and his fellow speaker Jacob Rees-Mogg were both from estates, the ex-Tory also landed some rather more discreet blows on Sunak over the government’s net zero approach. But despite the keynote speaker heaping praise on Truss’s movement and bolstering her call for a return to proper Conservative values, there are questions about Anderson’s future in the group.