{"id":15706,"date":"2024-03-11T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=15706"},"modified":"2024-03-11T16:24:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T16:24:19","slug":"anderson-defects-to-right-wing-reform-uk-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/11\/anderson-defects-to-right-wing-reform-uk-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Defects to Right-Wing Reform UK Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A prominent former deputy chairman of Britain\u2019s governing Conservatives, who was suspended from the party over accusations of Islamophobia, on Monday defected to the small right-wing Reform UK party in a setback for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.<\/p>\n<p>The move by Lee Anderson, a former miner who has courted controversy with his outspoken views, comes months before a national election in which Reform is expected to draw votes away from the Conservatives and in doing so threaten Sunak\u2019s re-election bid.<br \/>\nAnderson\u2019s defection to Reform, which has Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage as its honorary president and backs populist causes such as tougher immigration laws, gives the party its first member of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>It also represents a blow to Sunak, given Anderson was appointed as the Conservatives\u2019 deputy chairman last year to appeal to voters in former Labour Party-voting heartlands known as the \u201cRed Wall\u201d that backed the Conservatives at the last election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want my country back &#8230; We are allowing people into our country that will never integrate and adopt our British values,\u201d Anderson said at a press conference alongside Reform leader Richard Tice, who predicted more lawmakers would join Reform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReform UK has offered me the chance to speak out in parliament on behalf of millions of people up and down the country, who feel that they\u2019re not being listened to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 A prominent former deputy chairman of Britain\u2019s governing Conservatives, who was suspended from the party over accusations of Islamophobia, on Monday defected to the small right-wing Reform UK party in a setback for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The move by Lee Anderson, a former miner who has courted controversy with his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15708,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15706\/revisions\/15708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}