The deputy prime minister has refused to say on Sky News whether Lee Anderson is “racist” as he backed the decision to suspend him from the Conservative Party following his attack on Sadiq Khan.
Mr Anderson claimed “Islamists” had “got control” of the London mayor whom he claimed had “given our capital city away to his mates”.
His comments on GB News sparked condemnation from across the political divide, including from Tory peer Baroness Warsi who said she was “really disturbed by where the Conservative Party has gone”.
On Sunday afternoon, Mr Anderson tweeted a picture of a pint of beer with the caption: “In the Dog House”.
“A random lady called Sue called in yesterday and left a fiver behind the bar to get me a pint,” he wrote.
“I don’t know you Sue but cheers.”
Earlier on Sky News deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden said the MP for Ashfield had used the “wrong words” against Mr Khan, and that “words matter”.
