Kevin Schofield is Politics Editor of HuffPost UK.
The deputy prime minister also revealed that Anderson would not have been stripped of the Tory whip if he had apologised.Anderson also said the Labour mayor of London had “given our capital city away to his mates” in an interview on GB News.on Sunday programme, Dowden said Rishi Sunak had been right to remove the Tory whip after Anderson failed to say sorry.
He added: “What Lee Anderson was more broadly expressing is a deep concern, which I also share, about the way in which politics has been conducted and what has happened over the past week.”Deputy PM Oliver Dowden says it was right to suspend the former Conservative deputy chair from the party because an apology “wasn’t forthcoming”He said: “The chance that it could be taken in that way is the reason why those comments led to the chief whip asking for an apology.
Asked whether he would have kept the whip if he had apologised, Dowden said: “Yes. He was asked to apologise, he failed to do so and that’s what flowed from it.
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