EXCLUSIVE: Lee Anderson appeared on the 100th episode of the Daily Expresso and delivered one of his strongest attacks yet on Sir Keir Starmer.
JJ Anisiobi was close to tears when Lee Anderson made the comment (Image: Daily Expresso)
Lee Anderson appeared on the 100th episode of the Daily Express’ Daily Expresso show and delivered one of his strongest attacks yet on Sir Keir Starmer. Speaking to host JJ Anisiobi, the Reform UK MP discussed migration, crime, politics and his move away from the Conservatives. And during one exchange, he used a three-word insult to describe the Prime Minister.
Anderson, who defected from the Conservatives to Reform UK in March 2024, talked about why he left his old party and why he believes voters are shifting away from Labour and the Tories. He also gave his view on several senior political figures.
JJ Anisiobi asked him whether he would rather have Kemi Badenoch or Sir Keir as prime minister. Anderson replied: “I would rather have, and let me choose my words very very carefully on this one. Not Zack Palansky. I can’t pick him.
“But the bar is so low at the moment. Sir Keir Starmer, he’s made a living out of defending wronguns and sticking up for wronguns. I think some of the stuff he does is quite treacherous in my opinion.
“But to avoid twisting my words. I don’t want Kemi Badenoch as leader. I want Nigel Farage as the leader of our country. “
Later in the interview, Anderson returned to Sir Keir after JJ Anisibi asked him what he makes of Sir Keir as a man. This prompted Anderson to use some very strong words to describe the Prime Minister.
He said: “I’ve said it before on the Daily Express. I don’t know what’s behind his eyes. He is and I’ll repeat it possibly a lizard.”
The comments unsurprisingly made JJ Anisiobi laugh out loud and led to a short pause as the host recovered with a glass of water.
Anderson then continued: “Well, what else is it? He defends wronguns. There’s nothing there. There’s no soul there, is there? He speaks like a Dalek. Boring. I don’t know. You wouldn’t want to be stuck in a telephone box with him or a lift or he wouldn’t pass the point test, would he?”
Before the string comments, Anderson spoke in detail about migration and his belief that tougher action is needed.
He said: “There has to be consequences when you arrive on these shores and that is the responsibility of the Home Secretary. Now, if it was me, apart from the obvious things, like leaving the ECHR and having our own Bill of Rights and ignoring any other conventions, I’d turn them back the same day.
“Same day in the channel. If they actually got through, they would be detained and deported.”
Anderson said he joined Reform UK after losing faith in both major parties (Image: Getty)
He added: “There’s plenty of colonies around the world we could send them to. You only have to send a week’s worth. They’d stop coming. You send them to some remote island in the middle of wherever.
“They’d soon get the messaging. They’ll think ‘sod that we’re not going over there paying three or four grand to end up in the middle of the Atlantic’. They’d stop coming straight away. That’s just common sense.”
The interview also covered Anderson’s political journey. He said he joined Reform UK after losing faith in both major parties.
He added: “My constituents were saying: ‘Join Reform. Join Reform.’ You know, we do want our country back. We’re fed up. Fed up of not being listened to.”
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