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On 8 June 2025, it was proposed that this article be moved from Lee Anderson (British politician) to Lee Anderson. The result of the discussion was moved.

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'Vandalise' the page via my edits? Now you're taking the piss. If you unable to grasp the fact that my edit is factually true then I feel sorry for you. Given that the Home Office have admitted that over 60% of recent illegal boat migrants are Albanian and therefore economic migrants rather than refugees it is upon you to back up your claim that Mr. Anderson 'wrongly' claimed that these migrants are indeed economic. 82.11.170.14 (talk) 13:27, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Actually the UK government figure is 18%.https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/factsheet-small-boat-crossings-since-july-2022/factsheet-small-boat-crossings-since-july-2022 Check your sources! Thelisteninghand (talk) 18:21, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 8 June 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. There is a consensus by 3:1 !vote to move the pages per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. (closed by non-admin page mover) Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 05:47, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

– WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Consistently gets thousands more views than any other Lee Anderson and gets all traffic from disambiguation page. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 02:14, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support: Reform UK is a growing party — in opinion polling mainly — so it is important that readers can easily access the Wikipedia biographical articles of the party's MPs. I certainly had not heard of the other people named Lee Anderson until seeing that disambiguation page. Most readers who look for a page under the title "Lee Anderson" are almost certainly searching for this one due to news events involving the subject, increasing notability. WP:PRIMARYTOPIC states that the most significant article in the long-term should not be disambiguated and I think that this person is a lot more notable than the other Lee Andersons as this is a national politician which means he has an ability to affect change; this article also meets the first criteria that says the article should be the most likely topic to search for. Qwerty123M (talk) 11:07, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:RECENTISM. Current holders of elective offices will naturally receive inflated views. Supporters of public officials who hold obviously high leadership positions can, of course, present arguments for their primacy, but most recent nominations of American politicians, for example, have not succeeded in elevating them to primary topics. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 18:30, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support: Lee Anderson (British politician) has been a prominent politician in the UK for about five years since being elected to the House of Commons in December 2019. He served in a fairly senior role as deputy chairman of the Conservative Party before making a high-profile defection to Reform UK in March 2024, becoming the party's first Member of Parliament. He has received a significant amount of coverage in reliable secondary news sources such as BBC News. As mentioned by Jeffrey34555, Lee Anderson (British politician) consistently gets thousands more views than any other Lee Anderson. I support the requested move as per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Regards, Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 22:49, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support. I think he probably is the primary topic per both pageviews and long-term significance. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:42, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.