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Lee Anderson MP all over the Conservative Party Convention at Manchester Significant Conference Advanced, Manchester on Monday 2nd October 2023. (Picture by Pat Scaasi/MI News/NurPhoto by way of AP)

The Metropolitan Police are at the moment “assessing” whether or not to launch an investigation right into a hate speech complaint lodged against MP and GB News host Lee Anderson.

In line with The Solar, the anonymous complaint was once submitted to the police after Anderson claimed “Islamists” had seized control of London and town’s Mayor Sadiq Khan in an interview on GB Information on Friday. Khan accused Anderson of racism in response.

After making the comments, Anderson misplaced the Tory whip for refusing to apologise. In a remark Anderson doubled down on his remarks, even supposing admitted his wording was once “clumsy.”

The fallout, on the other hand, has been wider. In interviews with the media key Conservatives, including High Minister Rishi Sunak, have stopped in need of labelling the feedback as Islamophobic or racist. The celebration line, instead, seems to be flatly maintaining that the feedback, punishable by using the extreme political repercussion of shedding the whip, had been “flawed” however now not going into detail as to why.

This has ended in accusations from the opposition that the celebration is pandering to the political proper, with circulating claims that some within the party give a boost to Anderson’s feedback, while the Muslim Council of Britain said that the party has a topic with “systemic Islamophobia” – a claim Sunak denied.

Amidst calls for his reinstatement by means of some Tory allies and hypothesis about his possible move to the Reform Birthday Celebration, Anderson continues to be defiant. He accuses Khan of “playing the race card” for political gain.

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