Labour calls for Liz Truss and Lee Anderson to lose Conservative whip

Labour has called for Liz Truss and Lee Anderson to lose the Conservative whip over media appearances that have also caused anger within Tory ranks.

In a letter to the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, on Friday, the shadow paymaster general, Jonathan Ashworth, said “egregious” remarks made by the pair “cannot go unchecked or unchallenged”.

Truss had used a talk at the Conservative Political Action Conference (Cpac) in the US to claim her…