New Reform UK MP Lee Anderson has said Conservatives will have to "wrestle with their own consciences" about following him as he kicked off a tour of his constituency with his new party leader.Mr Anderson, who defected to Reform after he was stripped of the Tory whip over comments about London Mayor Sadiq Khan, set off from the centre of Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, on an open top bus with party leader Richard Tice.

New Reform UK MP Lee Anderson has said Conservatives will have to "wrestle with their own consciences" about following him as he kicked off a tour of his constituency with his new party leader.Mr Anderson, who defected to Reform after he was stripped of the Tory whip over comments about London Mayor Sadiq Khan, set off from the centre of Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, on an open top bus with party leader Richard Tice.