Lee Anderson, Suella Braverman, and the future of the Conservative Party

Lee Anderson, Suella Braverman, and the future of the Conservative Party

By BBC News

Today we look at the Conservative party’s response to Lee Anderson’s comments about the London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

Laura’s been talking to the Deputy PM Oliver Dowden. Paddy’s interviewed the former justice secretary Robert Buckland.

Newsnight political editor Nick Watt is also in the Newscast studio for analysis on the politics of it all, and he helps us get to the bottom of the row over whether the Speaker was threatened before his key Commons decision.

Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Catherine Fusillo. The technical producer was Jonny Baker. The assistant editor is Chris Gray and the senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

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