Nigel Farage and Lee Anderson shared a hug as they reflected on Reform UK’s election result, in a new video posted to social media.
Councillor Zadrozny finished more than 10,000 votes behind Lee Anderson
Mr Anderson has been paid £100,000 a year to host a Friday night show on GB News
The Reform UK MP won by a landslide in Ashfield as the area recorded its lowest election turnout for nearly a decade
Lee Anderson secured Reform UK's first gain of the General Election after winning in Ashfield.
Lee Anderson says Labour and the Tories do not listen to the people of the Ashfield constituency where he swept to victory.
Mr Anderson, who defected from the Tories, won in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Mr Anderson, who won the seat in 2019 as a Conservative, defected to Nigel Farage's outfit last year.
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Nigel Farage is on course to become the MP for Clacton in Essex as exit poll forecasts more than a dozen seats for upstart party
He comfortably fought off competition from Labour and Jason Zadrozny
Lee Anderson defected from the Tories to Reform UK after rebelling against Rishi Sunak's Rwanda Bill at the start of the year.
But Mr Anderson's supporters still believe he's in the driving seat
REFORM UK have now claimed four seats as the nightmare for the Conservative Party continued.
Lee Anderson, the former deputy leader of the Conservatives, has a chance of winning his Ashfield seat for Nigel Farage's Reform UK, according to the polls.