Lee Anderson's three-word 'reality check' warning to Tory party after election shambles

Lee Anderson has issued a warning to the Tories (Image: Getty)

Lee Anderson has issued a "reality check" warning to the Conservative Party after it faced an embarrassing set of local election results.

In a post on X, the Reform UK MP for Ashfield told the Tories to "stop blaming others" in a three-word slap down, and criticised former Conservative colleagues for claiming that "voting for Reform is a vote for Labour".

Anderson joined Reform in March after being suspended by the Conservative Party for comments he made about London mayor Sadiq Khan which prime minister Rishi Sunak described as being "wrong, unacceptable and ill-judged".

In his tweet he said the Tories had not been listening to people's "priorities" and criticised MPs for "blaming" Reform for Consevative election failings.

He said: "Reality check incoming, Labour are not 20 points ahead because they are any good."

The local elections proved disastrous for Rishi Sunak and the Tories (Image: Getty)

He added: "It's you that are 20 points behind because you have spent more time tweeting than knocking on doors, listening to people and then delivering on their priorities.

"People are fed up with mass legal migration, mass illegal migration despite three acts of Parliament being passed, knife crime, lawless streets, weak police forces, can't get a GP or dentist appointment.

"Stop blaming the Reform Party and do something about it rather than question the intelligence of people that have always put their trust in you.

"The Reform Party is the only party that will tackle these issues. A vote for you is a vote for more of the above."

Prior to joining his new party, Anderson himself had been critical of Reform, saying it was "not a proper political party" and describing its leader Richard Tice as a "pound shop Farage". When he joined the party he became its first and only MP.

It comes after Anderson mockingly took aim at the Tories on Friday telling Sky News the prime minister could "drop a million pounds down every chimney" in the UK and still not win the general election.

He told Sky News: “I think the public’s already made their mind up.

“I think Rishi Sunak could fly over the UK tonight in a helicopter and drop a million pounds down every chimney and they would still vote him out come October."