BBC Question Times Fiona Bruce forced to halt show as | UK News

Fiona Bruce was forced to interrupt Question Time as she locked horns with Labour’s Stephen Kinnock. Joining the presenter on the panel was Kinnock, Tory MP Harriett Baldwin, broadcaster Mariella Frostrup and former politician Nadine Dorries.

All eyes have been on Kinnock as the talk turned to the continued migrant disaster in the UK, despite Keir Starmer‘s pledge to “smash the gangs”. The panel was requested whether or not the one-in, one-out scheme is really working after a man who was deported to France under the coverage returned to the UK in a small boat.

One viewers member was confused by the record-breaking quantity of migrants coming into the UK illegally as she requested: “Why is it that Poland can do all of this and we can’t? You can’t go into Poland. There aren’t any illegal immigrants. But in the UK you can come in anytime and go to hotels.”

Kinnock responded: “When the United Kingdom was in the European Union, we were part of something called The Dublin Convention. The Dublin Convention enables any country that was a signatory to it to send somebody back to the first country where they tried to claim asylum.”

Interjecting, Bruce claimed that Britain “hardly did that”. Kinnock snapped back: “Well that’s what a deterrent is.”

Not letting it go, the presenter fumed: “But… but…” Unable to get a phrase in, she raised her hand and declared: “Hang on!”

She continued: “We had The Dublin Convention, but we actually sent very few people back using that Dublin Convention and you know it.”

“Because it was a deterrent because people weren’t coming,” Kinnock argued. To which Bruce hit back: “Even when people were coming we didn’t.”

When the Labour minister claimed the small boats issue did not exist when the UK was in the European Union, the BBC host clarified: “People came in lorries, Stephen.”

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