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New Tory deputy chairman forced to defend 'daft' death penalty comments

February 09, 2023

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Evening Standard

THE Tory party's new deputy chairman today defended controversial comments he made about the death penalty, amid criticism that the "daft" remarks showed he should not have been appointed.

- Rachael Burford

New Tory deputy chairman forced to defend 'daft' death penalty comments

Outspoken Lee Anderson said it was "difficult to argue against" execution as a punishment in some murder cases, singling out the 2013 killing of solider Lee Rigby in Woolwich.

"I was asked a question and I answered it," Mr Anderson told TalkTV. "I always think that in certain circumstances it is difficult to argue against and the case I always go back to is the murder of Lee Rigby.

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