Family’s tears after hearing schoolboy ‘laughed when he killed daughter, 12’
Campaign group Best For Britain responded to Mr Anderson’s remarks by saying: ‘And this why we need to make MPs pay their own expenses.
‘Otherwise they exist in an environment completely immune from ordinary pressures and end up saying – and believing – nonsense like this.
‘When was the last time Lee Anderson paid his own bills?’
During the 2019 general election campaign Mr Anderson was criticised for suggeting ‘nuisance’ council tenants should be forced to work ‘in the field, picking potatoes or any other seasonal vegetables – back in the tent, cold shower, lights out, six o’clock, same again the next day.’
And last summer he announced he would be boycotting TV coverage of England’s matches at the European Championship in protest at the country’s footballers taking the knee before kick-off in an anti-racism gesture.