Lee Anderson has ripped up a BBC license fee reminder while speaking on stage during Reform UK’s press conference in the East Midlands.
He declared that he would not pay a license which goes towards supporting the pensions of individuals including Huw Edwards.
In response, Anderson received a raucous welcome from audience members as he shredded the document.
The move has come months after he ripped up a BBC license fee letter at Reform’s Birmingham party conference in September, branding the corporation a mistake.
The Reform chief whip made the bold move on stage in the East Midlands, which was met with cheers from the audience
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Anderson also used his speech as an opportunity to hit out at Sadiq Khan’s knighthood.
Lee Anderson joked that he aspired to be on next year’s New Year’s Honours list, adding that all he had to do was “make sure that our streets are unsafe” and “steal money from motorists”, in a thinly veiled swipe at Labour London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan.
Lee Anderson will be joined on stage by deputy leader Richard Tice and leader Nigel Farage, to address members in Leicester today and tomorrow.
The conference has followed an announcement from former Conservative MP Marco Longhi that he has switched allegiance from the Tories to Nigel Farage’s party.
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Longhi served as the MP for Dudley North from 2019 to 2024, and announced his defection while warning “the party of Churchill and Thatcher has transformed into something unrecognisable”.
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