3 h. ago BBC Question Time crowd gasp as Reform UK's Zia Yusuf branded 'typically rude'

One member of the crowd in Dover, Kent was heard shout "that's rude" when Zia Yusuf took a swipe at a man in the audience who merely asked a question about immigration

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4 h. ago BBC Question Time audience claps as panelist skewers Nigel Farage in immigration row

Question Time on the BBC aired a special episode last night — touching only on immigration — and it led to feisty showdowns between the likes of Zia Yusuf and Zack Polanski

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8 d. ago ZIA YUSUF: Welfare is now a £2trillion runaway train to which the whole economy is attached. Enough is enough

People who set their alarm clocks and go to work are being asked to pay record amounts in tax, accept appalling public services and pay for a record number of people to not work.

Economics

2 w. ago BBC Question Time audience applaud as guest skewers Tory MP for 'fobbing UK off'

During Thursday's Question Time, members of the audience in Loughborough, Leicestershire, asked Conservative MP Joe Robertson if he would apologise for the party's errors amid the Covid pandemic

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2 w. ago Why I woke up this morning convinced that everyone who can leave Britain should do so... before it's too late, writes PETER HITCHENS

I can still remember the groans from the audience and the panel when, on BBC Question Time, I advised young people to get out of this country while they still could.

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2 w. ago Chinese spying amounts to interference in UK democracy, minister says, after MI5 warns MPs – politics live

Dan Jarvis, the security minister, says China is trying to contact MPs and peers to get sensitive information about parliamentBack at the Reform UK press conference, Zia Yusuf, the party’s head of policy, has just finished outlining his plan to cut spending on foreignersAs he finished, Yusuf claimed this was “treachery”.Labour is making the conscious and deliberate decision to continue funding extortionate amounts to foreign nationals, to the detriment of British citizens.And I don’t know what to call that. Frankly, in my view, it’s treachery. I think it’s appalling. British people are sick and tired of it.Just a few months ago, Rachel Reeves was saying she couldn’t afford to scrap the two-child benefit cap. Now it looks like becoming her latest U-turn.This isn’t because the economic circumstances have improved. Quite the opposite. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Reform’s Zia Yusuf in heated clash with presenter over parents migration from Sri Lanka

Reform’s head of policy, Zia Yusuf, clashed with a Sky News presenter during a debate on immigration, after being asked about his parents’ decision to move to the UK from Sri Lanka in the 1980s.

Society

2 w. ago BBC Question Time audience member sparks laughter with cheeky six

The BBC Question Time audience member aimed a cheeky jibe at the British public during a feisty debate

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3 w. ago Former Question Time host David Dimbleby hits out at ‘ridiculous’ BBC amid Trump controversy

Dimbleby said the culture of the BBC needs ‘attention and always has done’

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4 w. ago BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce challenges Tory MP after 'tasteless slur'

Fiona Bruce, who presents Question Time, was quick to stand up for the BBC when Conservative MP Graham Stuart took aim at the organisation on the debate programme

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