Reform leader 'pulling your leg' over Labour defections

Claims that Labour MPs could swap to the Reform Party have been dismissed by the shadow Paymaster General.

Jonathan Ashworth said Reform leader Richard Tics was "pulling your leg" when saying Labour MPs could defect to has party.

It came after former Conservatives Party deputy chairman Lee Andersson, who had been suspended, became Reform's first MP.

Ex-Tory MP Lee Anderson defects to Reform