The Conservative MP and now Tory vice-chair of party Lee Anderson is a big fan of bringing back the death penalty.
His support for the death penalty came in an interview with the Spectator, conducted just before he became party chair this week.
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Asked if Anderson backed the idea he replied: “Yes. Nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed. You know that, don’t you? 100% success rate.”
Noting that opponents held up the prospect of miscarriages of justice, Anderson said people shown murdering someone on camera should be executed the “same week”, adding: “I don’t want to pay for these people.”
With this in mind a video of Ian Hislop explaining to Priti Patel why the death penalty really isn’t a good idea has gone viral all over again.
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