When Anderson was the Conservative Party candidate for Ashfield in the 2019 general election, many Westminster pundits wrote off his political career before it had even begun.
They assumed that a video he posted online calling for nuisance tenants to be forced to live in tents and pick potatoes would alienate voters in an area that until 2017 had been a Labour stronghold.
They were wrong, and Anderson — who had joined the Tories from Labour the previous year — took the seat with a majority of almost 6,000 votes, replacing Gloria de Piero, who is now his GB News colleague.
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He later said: “People say I’m outspoken; people say I’m controversial. I