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Reform UK’s Lee Anderson admitted ‘gaming the system’ to get people on benefits when he worked at Citizens Advice.

The Ashfield MP was appointed as his party’s welfare spokesman at the Reform conference in Birmingham last month, partly due to his experience working at the service.

This morning marked his first major intervention in the role, with a press conference on proposals to reshape the benefits system.

Anderson told reporters: ‘Before I came into politics, I worked for the Citizens Advice Bureau.

‘We used to fill the form out for clients… I can tell you now, we were gaming system.’

The former Conservative, who became Reform’s first MP when he defected last ye

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