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The BBC's flagship political debate programme đŸ“ș Thursdays from 9pm on @bbciplayer or on @BBCOne after the 10 o'clock news 🔈 on @bbcsounds #bbcqt

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‘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. #bbcqt
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‘Can we get over feeling sorry for Theresa May?’ This audience member criticises the prime minister’s handling of Brexit. #bbcqt
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“This is from someone that voted for you. What a disappointment you are.” Tonight on Question Time, this #bbcqt audience member says the Government “know the cost of everything and the value of nothing”. Watch on @BBCOne after the news, or live via the iPlayer.

BBC Question Time 24.03.2022

With a live studio audience from Reading.

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“Corbyn is not an anti-Semite, the right-wing press takes things out of context” This #bbcqt audience member, who is Jewish, says the media choose to attack the Labour leaders ‘character, because his policies are correct’.
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“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 #bbcqt audience member criticises parts of the Labour Party for their treatment of Jeremy Corbyn.

BBC Question Time

Fiona Bruce chairs a Question Time Election 2019 results special from Wandsworth. - BBC News

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“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. #bbcqt
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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!" #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt
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‘Ireland owes this country nothing’ @Bonn1eGreer says Britain cannot ‘shaft’ Ireland if they want a post Brexit trade agreement with the US. #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt #dimblebye
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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. #bbcqt
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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 #bbcqt Watch @bbciplayer bit.ly/3X4jSTW nitter.app/bbcquestiontime/status

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“I think it’s important to say they are not illegal, nobody is illegal” This #bbcqt audience member says she’s “bored” hearing about MPs doing reality TV and is more concerned by the home secretary using words like “invasion”

Question Time 10/11/2022

With a studio audience in Wells

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“Bring on a general election. I hope Boris gets a majority, delivers Brexit and defeats a Marxist Jeremy Corbyn government”, says this #bbcqt audience member.
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“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. #bbcqt Watch live on the iPlayer bbc.in/3Av6mQU
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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. #bbcqt

BBC Question Time 12.05.22

With a studio audience in Hackney.

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‘That protest was unedifying and an embarrassment to our country’ @piersmorgan on the Donald Trump state visit. #bbcqt
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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 #bbcqt bbc.in/3KIGEMR

BBC Question Time 30/05/2024

with a studio audience in Epsom

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PS Dear audience member in the background. We see your sneaky thumb trick. We do not encourage such behaviour. Goodnight! #bbcqt

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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. #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt
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“They’ve had five years to prepare for it, but there was no plan.” This #bbcqt audience member says “there was no economic basis in leaving the EU.”

BBC Question Time 07.10.2021

With a live audience from Aldershot.

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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. #bbcqt
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‘This is a deal that a nation signs only after having been defeated at war’ Economist @yanisvaroufakis criticises Theresa May on Brexit. #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt

BBC Question Time 12.05.22

With a studio audience in Hackney.

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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. #bbcqt

Nish Kumar: "we are trapped in hell"

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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 #bbcqt tonight, F1 driver Sebastian Vettel and the panel discuss the energy crisis. Join us at 10.40pm on @BBCOne.
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“It doesn’t matter how many times he apologises, it’s never enough” This #bbcqt audience member says Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn does not get a ‘fair deal’ from the press.
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“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 #bbcqt

Question Time 03/11/2022

With a studio audience in Horsham

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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 #bbcqt bit.ly/3XvG7mJ

Question Time 29/06/2023

With a studio audience in Exeter

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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. #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt
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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 #bbcqt
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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 #bbcqt bit.ly/43iWLIj

BBC Question Time 01/06/2023

Joined by an audience in Leicester

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“How do you expect people to integrate if you’ve taken away their services?” The Green Party’s Zack Polanski says people are “angry”, blaming austerity and calling for politicians to make “different political choices” & speak in a “positive” way about migration #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt
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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 #bbcqt

Question Time 10/11/2022

With a studio audience in Wells

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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. #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt
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‘Parliament has caused the chaos, not the Brexit voters’, says this audience member. #bbcqt
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“You have cut local services to the bone - and then you worry about antisocial behaviour?” This #bbcqt audience member gives an excoriating appraisal of the government’s performance, saying she’s “staggered” at the gap between the audience and the panel bit.ly/3Zt4wZF

Question Time 30/03/2023

With a studio audience in Bristol

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‘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. #bbcqt
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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 #bbcqt Watch now on @BBCiplayer: bbc.in/3rR4D2D

Question Time 13/10/22

With a studio audience in Musselburgh.

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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. #bbcqt
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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 #bbcqt

Question Time 06/10/2022

With a studio audience in London.

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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 #bbcqt audience member, a nurse, says she will continually vote to strike “for patient safety” #bbcqt bbc.in/461tCmj

BBCQuestion Time 21/09/2023

Joined by a studio audience in Ipswich

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This Conservative Party member says she will be supporting the Brexit Party in the upcoming European elections. #bbcqt
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‘You have betrayed democracy’ Actor John Rhys-Davies criticises politicians’ handling of Brexit. #bbcqt
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“Everything is too expensive and nothing works” Political commentator Ash Sarkar says privatisation is a “failed experiment” that has “cost this country dearly” and “our money has been paid out to shareholders” #bbcqt
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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 #bbcqt bit.ly/3Xk0OSC

Question Time 22/06/2023

With a studio audience in Clacton-on-Sea

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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 #bbcqt Watch: bit.ly/3WMeFk9

Question Time 10/11/2022

With a studio audience in Wells

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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” #bbcqt bit.ly/48W6WFg

Question Time 18/01/2024

With a studio audience in Peterborough

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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 #bbcqt bit.ly/3LY44xB

Question Time 11/

Joined by an audience in Bexhill-on-Sea

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“We need to export to our biggest and most obvious market which is 20 miles across the Channel” This #bbcqt audience member who trades with European countries says his business is “hanging in there”, claiming Brexit is a “disaster for our economy” Watch bit.ly/3GrL8GI nitter.app/bbcquestiontime/status

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“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 #bbcqt

BBC Question Time

With a virtual audience from Dover. Nov 12th, 2020.

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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 #bbcqt

BBC Question Time

With a virtual audience from Chelmsford. December 10th, 2020

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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”.

BBC Question Time 04.11.2021

With a live studio audience in Eastleigh.

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“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 #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt

Question Time 9.12.21

With a live studio audience in Hendon.

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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" #bbcqt bbc.in/4b8DVY2

BBC Question Time 25/04/2024

with a studio audience in Tottenham

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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. #bbcqt

BBC Question Time

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Our first question of the evening. #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt

BBC Question Time

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“The BBC is losing its audience’ Michael Portillo says he does not believe the licence fee can ‘survive’. #bbcqt
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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 #bbcqt

Question Time 20/10/2022

With a studio audience in Cheltenham

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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. #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt
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Our next question comes as eight leaders are jailed amid the ongoing Catalan crisis #bbcqt
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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 #bbcqt bit.ly/3XvG7mJ nitter.app/bbcquestiontime/status

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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 #bbcqt bit.ly/3X1DQOe

Question Time 02/02/2023

Joined by an audience in Glasgow.

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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. #bbcqt
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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 #bbcqt
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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” #bbcqt bbc.in/44us1EA

BBC Question Time 06/07/2023

With an audience in Fleetwood

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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”. #bbcqt

Question Time 23/06/22

With a studio audience in Stratford-upon-Avon

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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’. #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt nitter.app/bbcquestiontime/status

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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 #bbcqt audience member cites his own circumstances in the Shamima Begum decision, adding “unfortunately, she’s our problem” #bbcqt bit.ly/3IORFMh

Question Time 23/02/2023

Joined by an audience in Cardiff

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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” This #bbcqt audience member says they are “fine” paying more in tax if they saw more benefits
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“A lot of people who like to start wars are suddenly very angry with one guy who wants to stop this war” Matt Goodwin claims we are seeing a “reset of geopolitics” and that the US under Trump has “had enough” of interventionism #bbcqt

BBC Question Time 13/02/2025

with a studio audience in Northwich

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“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. #bbcqt
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“He seems to have a pathological shamelessness” This #bbcqt audience member suggests Boris Johnson will stay in 10 Downing Street until he is “marched out”.

Question Time 09/06/2022

With a studio audience in Dorking.

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“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 #bbcqt bbc.in/42zdSWs nitter.app/bbcquestiontime/status

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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. #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt

Question Time - 13.01.22

With a live studio audience in Shrewsbury.

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“Let’s have a bet
 a pound for every home you don’t build” TV host Piers Morgan says Labour’s pledge to build 1.5 million homes is “not going to happen” #bbcqt
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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 #bbcqt bit.ly/3yrFAXq nitter.app/bbcquestiontime/status

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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’ This #bbcqt audience member says the media will not allow a ‘socialist to be elected in this country’.
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‘He’s just knocking things out of the park and people can’t stand it’ This audience member says Boris Johnson has done a ‘brilliant job’. #bbcqt
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‘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’ #bbcqt
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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’. #bbcqt
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“Who is going to define hate?” .@jordanbpeterson argues that the UK should be very careful when restricting freedom of speech. #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt

Question Time 09/06/2022

With a studio audience in Dorking.

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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. #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt
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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. #bbcqt
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Green MP @CarolineLucas says we should be concerned about the new Brexit party. #bbcqt
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‘People are fed up with the government and the entire democratic system’ This Leave voter says the public are being ignored on Brexit. #bbcqt
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