Nigel Farage claimed the Tories are “tearing themselves into pieces” over the Lee Anderson row amid speculation the former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party could join Reform UK.
Mr Farage, the honorary president of Reform, said he had “no idea” if Mr Anderson could defect as he highlighted Tory divisions.
Asked what he had heard about the potential move, Mr Farage told GB News: “No idea. I don’t know what is happening. I am the honorary president, I am letting Richard Tice get on with running the thing and from what I can see he is doing quite a good job of it.
“So I have no idea myself what is going to happen in that regard. But is the Conservative Party looking at the Lee Anderson row, to a slightly lesser degree the Paul Scully row, and seeing Tory MPs and peers lining up to condemn Anderson, others lining up to say ‘for goodness sake reinstate the whip’, they do appear as a party to be literally tearing themselves to pieces over this.”
Mr Anderson lost the Tory whip after failing to apologise for claiming “Islamists” had “got control” of Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London.
It emerged yesterday that he had held private talks with Mr Tice, with the pair having reportedly met on Sunday at a Holiday Inn hotel, at junction 28 of the M1.
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