Lee Anderson has blasted rumours that he "was paid to join Reform" after news broke today that he would be the first MP in the party.
Anderson was suspended as a Conservative MP after refusing to apologise for claiming Islamists had "control" of London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
Speaking to Patrick Christys on GB News he said: "I have not been paid 100 per cent.
"Don't be so ridiculous. I'm not a mercenary. My salary is my MP's salary and a salary from GB News .
Lee Anderson blasted the "talk online" that he had been paid to join Reform
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"Obviously there was talk online saying I bet he's gone because he's been paid by Richard Tyson. I've had no money.
"I've taken a gamble on myself. Reform Party. I've taken a gamble on me.
"It's a gamble I was prepared to take. It's a gamble I think I'll win. It's a gamble that I need to win.
"And I need the British public now to gamble on me and the Reform Party."
Lee Anderson has joined Reform UK GB NEWSOver the course of his time in politics, Anderson has been involved with three different parties Labour, Conservative and now Reform.
Earlier in the interview the MP explained: "What I will say about being in three different parties is that my politics haven't changed.
"All I want is to live in a country which is safe, got police on the streets where we control immigration, both legal and illegal migration.
"A safe country, if I ever have grandchildren, for them to grow up into and too hopefully play my part in, in making sure that happens.
Lee Anderson spoke to Patrick Christys on GB News
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"At the moment I can't see the difference between the Labour Party and the Conservative Party.
"Like I said earlier today, I want my country back. I think we've given the country away to to people that don't like our country.
"We're importing people, we're letting people go into the country, don't accept or adopted British values, don't like our way of life, don't like our history, our heritage, our culture.
"It just keeps happening and happening time and time again.
"We get asylum seekers come in that go on to commit horrific crimes in this country and all we hear from politicians is it's unacceptable."