'Anderson's Express article is closest critics will get to apology

Commons Leader makes appeal to suspended MP

- Martyn Brown

LEE Anderson's exclusive article in the Daily Express is "the closest" his critics will get to a "one-word apology" from the race row MP, Penny Mordaunt said yesterday.

The Commons leader also appealed to Mr Anderson, who has been suspended by the Conservatives, to think about "the good" he can do, even if he defects to another party.

The Ashfield MP had the Tory whip withdrawn at the weekend after he suggested in a TV interview that London's Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan is controlled by Islamists.