‘David Cameron made the referendum policy because he didn’t want to risk losing 10 or 15 seats to UKIP and look where it has got us’
This 16-year-old says the Conservative Party are responsible for Brexit.
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“This is from someone that voted for you. What a disappointment you are.”
Tonight on Question Time, this
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audience member says the Government “know the cost of everything and the value of nothing”. Watch on
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after the news, or live via the iPlayer.
“Corbyn is not an anti-Semite, the right-wing press takes things out of context”
This
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audience member, who is Jewish, says the media choose to attack the Labour leaders ‘character, because his policies are correct’.
“For you to blame Jeremy Corbyn, particularly after your colleagues on the right of the party pushed him to adopt that position of a second referendum, is absolutely abhorrent”
This
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audience member criticises parts of the Labour Party for their treatment of Jeremy Corbyn.
“Whatever your politics, you can agree that punishing disabled and sick people for falling on hard times is absolutely morally wrong and they have blood on their hands”
@chessmartinez
on the government’s austerity policy.
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''The UK is one of the least racist societies across Europe"
"It's funny that you're a white man saying that! How are you going to experience it? You're a white man!"
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“It’s a metaphor for an entire year of Covid incompetence”
Journalist Ian Hislop says it’s “a ridiculous amount of money” to spend £2.6 million on a briefing room while granting NHS workers a 1% pay rise.
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'From me, a happy Christmas and not goodbye, but goodnight'
David Dimbleby receives a standing ovation from the panel and audience as he says goodbye to BBC Question Time after 25 years.
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‘I find it staggering’
This audience member questions why politicians have been given several opportunities to change their vote on Brexit, while the public have been denied the same chance.
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“You’re effectively saying to all these public sector workers, ‘get poorer and be happy about it’”
Journalist Ash Sarkar asks why the government lifted the bankers’ bonus cap but accepts a real-terms cut to public sector wages
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“I think it’s important to say they are not illegal, nobody is illegal”
This
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audience member says she’s “bored” hearing about MPs doing reality TV and is more concerned by the home secretary using words like “invasion”
“Bring on a general election. I hope Boris gets a majority, delivers Brexit and defeats a Marxist Jeremy Corbyn government”, says this
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audience member.
“He’s corrupt, he’s entitled, he’s a liar… and the sooner he is out of that place the better”
Former No 10 press secretary
@campbellclaret
shares his views on Boris Johnson's resignation as leader of the Conservatives.
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“When two million people in the richest country are skipping meals because they can’t afford it, the fact you’re not acting, I think, is unforgivable”
Economist
@Miatsf
accuses the government of not “grasping the scale” of the cost of living crisis.
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“I'm sorry but your going to have to cut your cloth accordingly like state schools have had to for 14 years”
Labour’s Wes Streeting defends plans to charge VAT on private schools fees to pay for state school teachers
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“We should completely close the borders … enough is enough”
This audience member says the number of people ’flooding in’ to the UK is costing public services too much.
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“As adults we are not supposed to be burying our children, our children are supposed to be burying us”
This grandmother says she is “so scared” and tells politicians they need to get something done about knife crime.
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“How can I put my faith in a leader when that same leader likens me to a letterbox?”
This audience member, who is an English teacher, criticises Boris Johnson for previous comments he made about Muslim women in burkas.
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‘What this is really about is the government shirking responsibility’
This teacher blames Conservative government cuts for the knife crime crisis.
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“Now you’re in this mess, you’ve got to deal with it”
Formula 1 Driver Sebastian Vettel gives his opinion on Brexit after being asked about the Northern Ireland Protocol.
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"The leaders of Brexit have fled the scene... We are trapped in hell. For the love of god get me out of here now"
@MrNishKumar
does not believe the Brexit process is going well.
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“You've talked a lot about energy...does that make you a hypocrite?”
“When I get out of the car, of course I’m thinking, is this something that we should do?”
On
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tonight, F1 driver Sebastian Vettel and the panel discuss the energy crisis.
Join us at 10.40pm on
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“It doesn’t matter how many times he apologises, it’s never enough”
This
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audience member says Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn does not get a ‘fair deal’ from the press.
“I don’t like the rhetoric..are we starting a war with these people down in Manston?”
Asda chairman Stuart Rose criticises the home secretary for visiting an immigration centre in a chinook and says his immigrant parents probably wouldn’t be allowed into the UK today
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“‘No one puts a child in a boat, unless the water is safer than the land’... it’s tragic, and it expresses perfectly the plight of those people”
Chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall says he is "delighted" the Rwanda policy has been ruled unlawful
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“Migrants to this country bring more and contribute more in tax than they take out”
@AyoCaesar
says there is a ‘human case’ in support of immigration to Britain.
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“I saw Gove, Johnson, Farage promising things that could never happen and they’ve all run away now”
This 18 year old audience member believes false promises were made before the EU referendum in 2016.
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''Someone lied to me and now I know it's the wrong thing to do''
This audience member, who voted leave, says she has now changed her mind and wants a second referendum
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“It’s not a cost of living crisis…it’s a cost of Conservatives crisis”
Anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe says the cost of living crisis hasn't "fallen out of a clear blue sky" but is the result of stripping back on public services
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“As a businessman I’m sort of finished with politicians…they come first, the party comes second and the nation has come a very poor third over the last three years”
@TheoPaphitis
says “very little regulation” has led to a lack of accountability in politics
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“It does feel increasingly to people that we’re being treated with contempt in the North of England.”
@AndyBurnhamGM
says the government needs to support businesses with “a full furlough scheme” if localised lockdowns continue.
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“I’d like to call out Labour as liars. I am one of the people he will tax more”
This audience member, who earns over £80,000, criticises the taxation promises in the Labour Party manifesto.
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‘If you legalised cannabis…not only would that take a hell of a lot of power, control and money away from criminals, it would free up a lot of time for police officers’
This police officer says the government should look at reforming drug policy to combat knife crime.
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“You have cut local services to the bone - and then you worry about antisocial behaviour?”
This
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audience member gives an excoriating appraisal of the government’s performance, saying she’s “staggered” at the gap between the audience and the panel
‘You had no deal, no currency, you told us that oil was going to be a million pound a barrel, now you can get a barrel for a tenner down the barras’
This audience member says the SNP have failed to listen on the issue of Scottish independence.
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“What an insult that we should be expected to eat the crumbs off a rich person's table…we should be at that table”
Musician
@nee_massey
discusses public opinion of the Tories
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‘52 to 48… you wouldn’t even change the constitution of your local golf club on that’
This audience member says that with the information available now, many voters have changed their minds on leaving the European Union.
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“I just do not think she is the right person for the job. And I also don’t trust her… so, I ain’t a fan”
Actor Brian Cox gives his verdict on Liz Truss’ premiership to date
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“Patients are at risk every single day of the week… people are dying in the back of ambulances and this cannot go on”
This
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audience member, a nurse, says she will continually vote to strike “for patient safety”
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“You were told that it would be pain-free. You were told that it would all be upsides, no downsides”
Former No 10 Press Secretary Alastair Campbell claims the British public were “lied to” and calls for Boris Johnson to be held accountable
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“I think the Hancock farce and the Williamson disgrace… are absolute symptoms of a rot at the heart of this Tory government”
The Green Party’s
@CarolineLucas
calls for a general election
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“Your water bills are going towards making foreign corporations rich”
Ash Sarkar hits out at private water companies which spill sewage into waterways, adding it makes ‘financial sense’ to renationalise the water industry
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“They are dividing a society, they are making us feel like refugees are the scum”
Barrister Hashi Mohamed says the rhetoric created by the Rwanda policy is “poison” and describes the policy as “unconscionable”
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“We need to export to our biggest and most obvious market which is 20 miles across the Channel”
This
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audience member who trades with European countries says his business is “hanging in there”, claiming Brexit is a “disaster for our economy”
Watch
“I went to university, I got a job and with my cerebral palsy have been a successful and independent human being. I am proud of who I am.”
Comedian
@josierones
says her life has “without a doubt” been better because of the Disability Discrimination Act
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"I voted for Brexit because I want the people in charge of my country to be democratically accountable to me and everyone else here."
@JuliaHB1
says Britain is being treated like a "naughty schoolchild" in EU trade negotiations. Question Time, 10:45pm,
@BBCOne
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“You can’t just change the rules when you don’t like them.”
@Carolinelucas
asks how you can hold the Prime Minister to account when he is “judge, jury and court”.
“That is the type of power that scares Boris Johnson, that scares Theresa, that scared Thatcher.”
This man says people are being divided by the UK media, instead of uniting to resist Government policies they don’t believe in
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“There was no reason, given what was happening in Britain, to bring in these restrictions...”
Broadcaster Michael Portillo calls the Plan B measures put in place “preposterous” given their inconsistency.
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“The language that we use… even in the question ‘Do we have a sick note culture?’ It’s cruel”
Chair of the NHS Confederation Victor Adebowale says the use of “performative” language needs to stop, and the government should show more "compassion"
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“We are going to see cases go up. The virus is going to continue spreading.”
Professor
@devisridhar
says lifting the coronavirus lockdown is “pointless” if we do not have the proper infrastructure to detect and trace.
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“To hear our government congratulating itself on the way it’s handled this outbreak. It’s insulting to the people who continue to die every day”
Author
@afuahirsch
calls on the government to be honest about the ‘mistakes’ it has made in its handling of coronavirus.
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“When’s the governing going to start?
“For the last year all you’ve governed is your own survival and the country is on its knees”
Labour’s
@jessphillips
says today's politics overshadowed a major report on child abuse
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‘Like in business when you realise things have changed, you change your plan.’
@TheoPaphitis
says he has changed his mind since voting Leave and wants another ‘clear referendum’ on Brexit.
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‘We won’t admit it, because we are afraid of being called racist’
@officialbarnesy
says people need to have open and honest conversations about unconscious discrimination and racism.
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“There is no such thing as an illegal human being - especially not those who are fleeing war and persecution”
The SNP’s Mhairi Black argues the Rwanda policy should be scrapped for both moral and financial reasons
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“It’s remarkable to me that politicians in this country…seem to have given up on the belief in reality, that sex is real and that it’s irrefutable”
Journalist Ella Whelan says women are an afterthought in the debate around single-sex spaces
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“I think it’s crazy to have three years of learning and then treat the population as children”
@Chris_Boardman
says that a second referendum on leaving the EU is the only “sensible” option.
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“It is a national scandal, we shouldn’t be in this position”
@RichardHorton1
says the UK has “wasted February” when we should have been preparing the NHS for coronavirus
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“Privitastion just doesn't work - not just in health but in water, in energy, in rail”
Green energy entrepreneur Dale Vince argues against privatising the NHS, adding that he thinks “this government is setting the NHS up to fail”
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“No matter what he does he’s not embarrassed by his failures, by the image he gives off and by his behaviour”
Mick Lynch of
@RMTunion
hopes the Conservatives lose the by-elections but questions if it will make any difference as the prime minister is “unembarrassable”.
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‘We have a genuine democratic crisis in this country’
Brexit Party leader
@Nigel_Farage
says politicians are doing their ‘utmost to thwart Brexit’.
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“There was this ridiculous excuse that somehow some of these people might be spies… that doesn’t seem to affect any other country.”
Comedian
@domjoly
says the Government’s handling of Ukrainian refugees is “disgusting.
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“We, sadly, have elected a Prime Minister who has no moral compass whatsoever.”
@campbellclaret
says MPs break the rules because Boris Johnson is setting a poor example.
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“She was born in the UK, she was raised in the UK, she was educated in the UK and she was probably let down in the UK”
This
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audience member cites his own circumstances in the Shamima Begum decision, adding “unfortunately, she’s our problem”
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“If I had to pay £20 more in tax, but my energy bills were reduced… surely that’s what we should be looking at? Rather than saying we need to keep cutting taxes”
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audience member says they are “fine” paying more in tax if they saw more benefits
“If I said I had taken Class A drugs, I would not only lose my job but I would be struck off the register”
This nurse talks about politicians and drug use.
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“He seems to have a pathological shamelessness”
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audience member suggests Boris Johnson will stay in 10 Downing Street until he is “marched out”.
“He looked like a sullen school child being hauled in front of the Eton headmaster…it’s the attitude of a man who’s never been made to answer for anything in his life”
Journalist Zing Tsjeng gives her take on Boris Johnson’s Partygate hearing
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‘It is nothing but sheer arrogance of people that have lost, and people that want to subvert democracy’
This audience member says he is against another referendum on leaving the EU.
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“He wasn’t sorry. He was sorry he got caught.”
Labour’s
@jessphillips
questions Boris Johnson’s integrity and suggests his apology in parliament was disingenuous.
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“Language matters. Language is what started in Bosnia. Language is what started in Rwanda”
Journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown quotes the poet WH Auden while discussing the power of language and defending Gary Lineker’s recent tweet
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‘People seem to think Meghan Markle was harassed and hounded by the press, that wasn’t a millionth of a scratch of the relentless campaign about Jeremy Corbyn’
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audience member says the media will not allow a ‘socialist to be elected in this country’.
‘We’re better off on day one without a deal and it will continue to get better’
Businessman Tim Martin says a no deal Brexit would leave the UK £39bn better off than Theresa May’s current proposal – because of the lack of ‘divorce payment’
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“12% of the health and social care work force are foreign nationals, we couldn’t function without them”
This nurse says discouraging foreign nationals from coming to work in social care could cause the system to ‘collapse even further’.
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“He is now fighting for his survival day in, day out…all that Downing Street is thinking about is the next newspaper headline and that is no way to govern a country”
Former minister
@RoryStewartUK
discusses the lasting impact of Monday’s vote of confidence.
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“Let’s be really clear about what this is, let’s call it by its name, it’s racism.”
“We’re the most tolerant lovely country in Europe, it’s not racism”
This audience member clashes with actor
@LozzaFox
over the treatment of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
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‘The referendum was about leaving the EU and all of its institutions, it was very simple, and that’s what we should have done’ says
@BrexitAlex
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“It’s an absurd act of gunboat diplomacy.”
Former Commons Speaker John Bercow says No. 10’s actions were “juvenile and down market” after the UK sent two navy vessels to Jersey over a fishing row with France.
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‘He knew exactly what he was saying and I think it is a disgrace’
This audience member criticises Boris Johnson and Attorney General Geoffrey Cox on the language they used in the House of Commons.
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‘In the next 10 years, Ireland will reunify and Scotland will become independent and we will both be in the European Union’ says the SNP’s
@joannaccherry
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''That's my whole lifetime and I didn't vote on this''
This audience member says she should not have to deal with the consequences of Brexit for the rest of her life
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