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By Dave Burke Hypocrite Lee Anderson says he won’t call a by-election after switching parties – despite previously backing calls for MPs to do so. In 2020, the former Tory deputy chairman, who has now joined Reform UK, supported a bill saying that MPs who cross the floor should face a recall petition. He supported Tory Anthony Mangnall’s demand for voters to decide if they were happy with their MP switching sides. But today he said he would do no such thing, despite giving a blistering assessment of Tory failures. Mr Anderson was one of 55 who backed Mr Mangnall’s Bill,) which said it was “cle…