Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson paid £100,000 a year by GB News

Tory deputy chair ’30p Lee’ Anderson reveals he’s paid £100,000 a year for GB News role… less than 18 months after he blasted MPs who ‘need an extra £100,000 a year’ on top of their parliamentary salary

• Lee Anderson revealed to be earning £100,000 a year for his GB News role
• Ashfield MP previously criticised MPs who ‘need an extra £100,000 a year’

Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson was today revealed to be earning £100,000 a year from his TV role – less than 18 months after he blasted MPs who need ‘an extra £100,000 a year’ on top of their parliamentary salary.

The Ashfield MP’s latest register of interests showed he is paid £100,000 a year from his work as a presenter and contributor on GB News.

He took up the role at the beginning of this month and it is stated that he devotes eight hours per week to the job.

But Mr Anderson’s lucrative TV gig follows his previous criticism of MPs who have significant earnings from outside Parliament.

In the wake of the Owen Paterson lobbying row in November 2021, the oustpoken politician said that MPs were ‘paid handsomely for the job we do’.

‘If you need an extra £100,000 a year on top then you should really be looking for another job,’ Mr Anderson added in a Facebook post at the time.

Lee Anderson’s lucrative TV gig follows his previous criticism of MPs who have significant earnings from outside Parliament

The Ashfield MP’s latest register of interests showed he is paid £100,000 a year from his work as a presenter and contributor on GB News

In the wake of the Owen Paterson lobbying row in November 2021, the oustpoken politician said that MPs were ‘paid handsomely for the job we do’

The 56-year-old, who also earns £84,144 a year for being an MP, was last month appointed Tory deputy chair by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

His promotion to a top party position soon attracted controversy and he faced a backlash over his support for the return of the death penalty.

The former Labour councillor, who worked as a coal miner for 10 years after leaving school, has previously been dubbed ’30p Lee’.

It came after he claimed there’s not a ‘massive use’ for food banks in Britain and offered ‘proof’ that meals can be cooked for 30p each.

Mr Anderson is among a number of Tory MPs to have jobs on GB News.

Ex-Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg and married couple Philip Davies and Esther McVey also host regular shows on the TV channel.

Mr Paterson, the ex-Tory Cabinet minister, quit as an MP in late 2021 following a lobbying row over his £110,000 a year private sector consultancy work.

In a statement posted to Facebook the day after ex-PM Boris Johnson ordered Tory MPs to save Mr Paterson from an immediate 30-day suspension from the Commons, Mr Anderson wrote: ‘There should be no place in politics for MPs to make financial gain from private companies in return for lobbying.

‘We are paid handsomely for the job we do and if you need an extra £100,000 a year on top then you should really be looking for another job.

‘Do I think Owen Paterson should have been suspended? Yes I do but I did not vote to stop the suspension, I voted to allow him the right to appeal a decision made against him.’

Mr Anderson has not yet responded to MailOnline’s questions about his 2021 comments in relation to his £100,000 a year role with GB News.

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