Once we ask the Lee Anderson question, our democracy is on a slippery slope | Kenan Malik

‘I’ve looked at your website and it says you embrace democracy,” Tory MP and Conservative party deputy chair Lee Anderson said to Graham Smith, chief executive of the anti-monarchist campaign group Republic, during a

last week. “If you embrace democracy so much, why don’t you put your placards away and stand for election?”

Smith was one of six Republic supporters who had been pre-emptively