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What to make of Lee Anderson’s political trajectory?
While the Labour-turned-Tory-turned-Reform UK politician might hold deeply objectionable views, there are lessons to be drawn about class discontent and how socialist leadership should respond, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Newly-defected former Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson MP campaigns for the Reform Party in his constituency of Ashfield, Nottinghamshire on the Reform campaign bus, March 15, 202

WILL Lee Anderson’s name resonate in histories of British politics?

Stranger things have happened, like the premiership of Liz Truss, the free market ideologue done in by the markets.

Truss now seems to be pitching for the deranged US right-wing conference circuit, a not badly paid gig if you can land it.

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