1 hour ago Reform blasts 'biased' BBC: Zia Yusuf makes official complaint after Question Time bosses 'stacked' audience with small boat migrants

Yusuf, the party's policy chief, said the broadcaster had created a situation he likened to asking 'convicted burglars to debate law and order'.

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2 h. ago Nigel Farage hits out at BBC over small boat migrants in Question Time audience

Two men granted refugee status after arriving on small boats were in the Question Time audience for an immigration special edition of the show.

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17 h. ago Reform’s Zia Yusuf branded ‘rude’ for heated Question Time audience member clash

Reform’s Zia Yusuf has been slammed for being “rude” during a heated clash with a Question Time audience member.

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24 h. ago Reform's Zia Yusuf condemns BBC for ambushing him with questions from small boat migrants on Question Time

Zia Yusuf, the party's head of policy, appeared on the immigration special to debate the issue but was questioned by a man who had arrived in the UK illegally.

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27 h. ago Holocaust survivors call on Farage to apologise for alleged racist abuse

The Reform UK leader denied at a press conference on Thursday that he ever made racist remarks in a ‘malicious or nasty way’.

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27 h. ago BBC Question Time audience gasp as Reform UK's Zua Yusuf slammed as 'rude'

The Reform UK politician drew sharp reactions in Dover when he told a long-serving NHS worker he “hadn’t paid attention” to the party’s policies.

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27 h. ago Nine Holocaust survivors demand Nigel Farage tells the truth over Hitler comments

In a letter to the Reform UK leader, nine Holocaust survivors demanded Nigel Farage reveals whether he did tell classmates 'Hitler was right' - saying: 'This moment is about moral responsibility'

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36 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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5 d. ago Oops! Baldrick's gaffe over Hitler and Nigel Farage: ANDREW PIERCE

Labour luvvie Sir Tony Robinson, one of Sir Keir Starmer's few celebrity supporters, has made a comparison between Nigel Farage and Hitler.

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5 d. ago Mansion tax critic Nigel Farage’s Reform MPs face being hit by the new property duty

The Mirror can disclose how some of the Reform UK leader’s colleagues owning multi-million pound properties might have to fork out for the charge

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1 week ago Tense Nigel Farage skewered in TV clash as he breaks silence on racism allegations

Former classmates from Dulwich College alleged that Nigel Farage made pro-Hitler comments, joked about gas chambers, and put someone in detention for the colour of their skin

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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 The Guardian view on Nigel Farage’s youthful views: the past still matters | Editorial

Voters need to know if a party leader said racist things at school. Interviewers have a duty to keep pressing for fuller factsFor one contemporary, it is the hectoring tone of today that evokes what it was like to be at school with Nigel Farage. “He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right’ or ‘Gas them’,” Peter Ettedgui recalls when asked about life at fee-paying Dulwich College in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Later, he adds: “I’d hear him calling other students ‘Paki’ or ‘Wog’ and urging them to ‘go home’.”For others, including some in the college’s combined cadet force (CCF), what lingers is the image of the young Mr Farage in uniform and his renderings of a racist anthem titled “Gas ’em all”. Tim France, a CCF member from those years, remembered Mr Farage “regularly” giving the Nazi salute and strutting around the classroom. “It was habitual, you know, it happened all the time,” he recalls. Continue reading...

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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 Shabana Mahmood says Nigel Farage can 'sod off' as she defends sweeping asylum system reforms

The Home Secretary has hit back at Nigel Farage after he suggested her plan to shake up the asylum system was her ‘audition to join Reform’

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3 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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