Lee Anderson latest: What did the Tory MP say to mayor Sadiq Khan as Islamophobic row deepens?

MPs most in danger from violence and abuse amid the conflict in Gaza shall be given private bodyguards.

The Sun studies that tens of millions of kilos shall be spent on plans to beef up safety for MPs beneath risk, due to be fleshed out inside days.

Last night time Tom Tugendhat, the safety minister and the Treasury have been finalising the package deal, to be unveiled later this week.

There could be few by-elections in latest reminiscence which have been extra chaotic than Rochdale.

Triggered by the loss of life of Labour MP Sir Tony Lloyd – who had held the constituency since 2017 – voters will go to the polls on Thursday after weeks of the Greater Manchester city hitting the headlines for all the improper causes.

Lee Anderson has threatened Rishi Sunak with defection to Reform UK as the row over his “Islamophobic” feedback deepens.

As questions proceed about Mr Anderson’s future in the Tory Party, the defiant Red Wall MP warned Mr Sunak: “I will be standing at the next election.”

The feedback got here in an interview with GB News through which Mr Anderson declined to rule out switching allegiances to the Nigel Farage-founded Reform UK.

In refusing to apologise right now for his anti-Muslim rant about Sadiq Khan, which noticed him suspended from the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson reveals little signal of wanting to be cowed – and no need in any respect to be a fading prime minister’s poodle, says Joe Murphy.

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Michael Tomlinson stated he thought Suella Braverman had been improper to say Islamists have been in control of Britain however added she mustn’t lose the whip.

Asked about Ms Braverman’s article in the Telegraph final week, the unlawful migration minister stated: “I don’t suppose Suella was proper.

“She’s the former residence secretary, she was responding truly to occasions that had occurred in the House of Commons, or not less than partially that had occurred in the House of Commons final Wednesday when a debate was had in relation to Gaza and in relation to peace in Gaza.”

Asked what the distinction was between her feedback and Lee Anderson’s, Mr Tomlinson stated: “I think one’s more of a personal attack, but if you’re asking me in relation to Suella and her article that was directly in response to that debate that we had in the chamber of the House of Commons last Wednesday, and as I say I think the speaker called that wrong.”

Asked whether or not she ought to have the whip withdrawn, he stated: “No, I think we are blessed to live in the country that we do. We have an open and tolerant society, I think that is one of the joys that makes Britain and our country what it is. That is something that I think we should celebrate as politicians.”

The former Post Office chair who claims he was suggested by officers to delay compensation funds to victims of the Horizon scandal will seem earlier than the enterprise and commerce committee later this morning.

Henry Staunton, who has been embroiled in a public spat with Kemi Badenoch, the enterprise secretary, over the allegations will give proof to the committee from 11am.

Alan Bates, the wronged subpostmaster who was central to the ITV drama that quickened the authorities’s response to the scandal, may also give proof to the inquiry once more following an look yesterday.

Liam Byrne, the Labour chair of the committee, instructed Playbook that he intends to ask Mr Staunton if he nonetheless stands by his claims. Ms Badenoch is overseas for a convention and won’t attend. More particulars about the row and who stated what under: