âDavid Cameron made the referendum policy because he didnât want to risk losing 10 or 15 seats to UKIP and look where it has got usâ
This 16-year-old says the Conservative Party are responsible for Brexit.
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âThis is from someone that voted for you. What a disappointment you are.â
Tonight on Question Time, this
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audience member says the Government âknow the cost of everything and the value of nothingâ. Watch on
@BBCOne
after the news, or live via the iPlayer.
âCorbyn is not an anti-Semite, the right-wing press takes things out of contextâ
This
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audience member, who is Jewish, says the media choose to attack the Labour leaders âcharacter, because his policies are correctâ.
âFor 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 abhorrentâ
This
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audience member criticises parts of the Labour Party for their treatment of Jeremy Corbyn.
âWhatever 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 handsâ
@chessmartinez
on the governmentâs 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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âItâs a metaphor for an entire year of Covid incompetenceâ
Journalist Ian Hislop says itâs âa ridiculous amount of moneyâ to spend ÂŁ2.6 million on a briefing room while granting NHS workers a 1% pay rise.
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âIreland owes this country nothingâ
@Bonn1eGreer
says Britain cannot âshaftâ Ireland if they want a post Brexit trade agreement with the US.
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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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âI find it staggeringâ
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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âYouâre effectively saying to all these public sector workers, âget poorer and be happy about itââ
Journalist Ash Sarkar asks why the government lifted the bankersâ bonus cap but accepts a real-terms cut to public sector wages
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Watch
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âI think itâs important to say they are not illegal, nobody is illegalâ
This
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audience member says sheâs âboredâ hearing about MPs doing reality TV and is more concerned by the home secretary using words like âinvasionâ
âBring on a general election. I hope Boris gets a majority, delivers Brexit and defeats a Marxist Jeremy Corbyn governmentâ, says this
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audience member.
âHeâs corrupt, heâs entitled, heâs a liar⊠and the sooner he is out of that place the betterâ
Former No 10 press secretary
@campbellclaret
shares his views on Boris Johnson's resignation as leader of the Conservatives.
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Watch live on the iPlayer
âWhen two million people in the richest country are skipping meals because they canât afford it, the fact youâre not acting, I think, is unforgivableâ
Economist
@Miatsf
accuses the government of not âgrasping the scaleâ of the cost of living crisis.
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âWe should completely close the borders ⊠enough is enoughâ
This audience member says the number of people âflooding inâ to the UK is costing public services too much.
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âAs adults we are not supposed to be burying our children, our children are supposed to be burying usâ
This grandmother says she is âso scaredâ and tells politicians they need to get something done about knife crime.
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âTheyâve had five years to prepare for it, but there was no plan.â
This
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audience member says âthere was no economic basis in leaving the EU.â
âHow can I put my faith in a leader when that same leader likens me to a letterbox?â
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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âWhat this is really about is the government shirking responsibilityâ
This teacher blames Conservative government cuts for the knife crime crisis.
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âNow youâre in this mess, youâve got to deal with itâ
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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âI donât like the rhetoric..are we starting a war with these people down in Manston?â
Asda chairman Stuart Rose criticises the home secretary for visiting an immigration centre in a chinook and says his immigrant parents probably wouldnât be allowed into the UK today
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âYou've talked a lot about energy...does that make you a hypocrite?â
âWhen I get out of the car, of course Iâm thinking, is this something that we should do?â
On
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tonight, F1 driver Sebastian Vettel and the panel discuss the energy crisis.
Join us at 10.40pm on
@BBCOne
.
âIt doesnât matter how many times he apologises, itâs never enoughâ
This
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audience member says Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn does not get a âfair dealâ from the press.
ââNo one puts a child in a boat, unless the water is safer than the landâ... itâs tragic, and it expresses perfectly the plight of those peopleâ
Chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall says he is "delighted" the Rwanda policy has been ruled unlawful
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âMigrants to this country bring more and contribute more in tax than they take outâ
@AyoCaesar
says there is a âhuman caseâ in support of immigration to Britain.
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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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âI saw Gove, Johnson, Farage promising things that could never happen and theyâve all run away nowâ
This 18 year old audience member believes false promises were made before the EU referendum in 2016.
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âItâs not a cost of living crisisâŠitâs a cost of Conservatives crisisâ
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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âAs a businessman Iâm sort of finished with politiciansâŠthey come first, the party comes second and the nation has come a very poor third over the last three yearsâ
@TheoPaphitis
says âvery little regulationâ has led to a lack of accountability in politics
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âIt does feel increasingly to people that weâre being treated with contempt in the North of England.â
@AndyBurnhamGM
says the government needs to support businesses with âa full furlough schemeâ if localised lockdowns continue.
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âIâd like to call out Labour as liars. I am one of the people he will tax moreâ
This audience member, who earns over ÂŁ80,000, criticises the taxation promises in the Labour Party manifesto.
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âIf you legalised cannabisâŠnot 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 officersâ
This police officer says the government should look at reforming drug policy to combat knife crime.
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âYou have cut local services to the bone - and then you worry about antisocial behaviour?â
This
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audience member gives an excoriating appraisal of the governmentâs performance, saying sheâs âstaggeredâ at the gap between the audience and the panel
âWhat an insult that we should be expected to eat the crumbs off a rich person's tableâŠwe should be at that tableâ
Musician
@nee_massey
discusses public opinion of the Tories
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Watch now on
@BBCiplayer
:
âYou 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 barrasâ
This audience member says the SNP have failed to listen on the issue of Scottish independence.
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â52 to 48⊠you wouldnât even change the constitution of your local golf club on thatâ
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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âI just do not think she is the right person for the job. And I also donât trust her⊠so, I ainât a fanâ
Actor Brian Cox gives his verdict on Liz Trussâ premiership to date
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âPatients are at risk every single day of the week⊠people are dying in the back of ambulances and this cannot go onâ
This
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audience member, a nurse, says she will continually vote to strike âfor patient safetyâ
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âYou were told that it would be pain-free. You were told that it would all be upsides, no downsidesâ
Former No 10 Press Secretary Alastair Campbell claims the British public were âlied toâ and calls for Boris Johnson to be held accountable
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âI think the Hancock farce and the Williamson disgrace⊠are absolute symptoms of a rot at the heart of this Tory governmentâ
The Green Partyâs
@CarolineLucas
calls for a general election
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Watch:
âYour water bills are going towards making foreign corporations richâ
Ash Sarkar hits out at private water companies which spill sewage into waterways, adding it makes âfinancial senseâ to renationalise the water industry
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âThey are dividing a society, they are making us feel like refugees are the scumâ
Barrister Hashi Mohamed says the rhetoric created by the Rwanda policy is âpoisonâ and describes the policy as âunconscionableâ
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âWe need to export to our biggest and most obvious market which is 20 miles across the Channelâ
This
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audience member who trades with European countries says his business is âhanging in thereâ, claiming Brexit is a âdisaster for our economyâ
Watch
âI 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.â
Comedian
@josierones
says her life has âwithout a doubtâ been better because of the Disability Discrimination Act
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âYou canât just change the rules when you donât like them.â
@Carolinelucas
asks how you can hold the Prime Minister to account when he is âjudge, jury and courtâ.
"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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âThat is the type of power that scares Boris Johnson, that scares Theresa, that scared Thatcher.â
This man says people are being divided by the UK media, instead of uniting to resist Government policies they donât believe in
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âThere was no reason, given what was happening in Britain, to bring in these restrictions...â
Broadcaster Michael Portillo calls the Plan B measures put in place âpreposterousâ given their inconsistency.
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âWe are going to see cases go up. The virus is going to continue spreading.â
Professor
@devisridhar
says lifting the coronavirus lockdown is âpointlessâ if we do not have the proper infrastructure to detect and trace.
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âTo hear our government congratulating itself on the way itâs handled this outbreak. Itâs insulting to the people who continue to die every dayâ
Author
@afuahirsch
calls on the government to be honest about the âmistakesâ it has made in its handling of coronavirus.
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âWhenâs the governing going to start?
âFor the last year all youâve governed is your own survival and the country is on its kneesâ
Labourâs
@jessphillips
says today's politics overshadowed a major report on child abuse
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âLike in business when you realise things have changed, you change your plan.â
@TheoPaphitis
says he has changed his mind since voting Leave and wants another âclear referendumâ on Brexit.
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âThere is no such thing as an illegal human being - especially not those who are fleeing war and persecutionâ
The SNPâs Mhairi Black argues the Rwanda policy should be scrapped for both moral and financial reasons
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âWe wonât admit it, because we are afraid of being called racistâ
@officialbarnesy
says people need to have open and honest conversations about unconscious discrimination and racism.
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âItâs remarkable to me that politicians in this countryâŠseem to have given up on the belief in reality, that sex is real and that itâs irrefutableâ
Journalist Ella Whelan says women are an afterthought in the debate around single-sex spaces
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âI think itâs crazy to have three years of learning and then treat the population as childrenâ
@Chris_Boardman
says that a second referendum on leaving the EU is the only âsensibleâ option.
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âIt is a national scandal, we shouldnât be in this positionâ
@RichardHorton1
says the UK has âwasted Februaryâ when we should have been preparing the NHS for coronavirus
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âPrivitastion just doesn't work - not just in health but in water, in energy, in railâ
Green energy entrepreneur Dale Vince argues against privatising the NHS, adding that he thinks âthis government is setting the NHS up to failâ
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âNo matter what he does heâs not embarrassed by his failures, by the image he gives off and by his behaviourâ
Mick Lynch of
@RMTunion
hopes the Conservatives lose the by-elections but questions if it will make any difference as the prime minister is âunembarrassableâ.
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âThere was this ridiculous excuse that somehow some of these people might be spies⊠that doesnât seem to affect any other country.â
Comedian
@domjoly
says the Governmentâs handling of Ukrainian refugees is âdisgusting.
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âWe, sadly, have elected a Prime Minister who has no moral compass whatsoever.â
@campbellclaret
says MPs break the rules because Boris Johnson is setting a poor example.
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âWe have a genuine democratic crisis in this countryâ
Brexit Party leader
@Nigel_Farage
says politicians are doing their âutmost to thwart Brexitâ.
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âShe 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 UKâ
This
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audience member cites his own circumstances in the Shamima Begum decision, adding âunfortunately, sheâs our problemâ
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âIf I said I had taken Class A drugs, I would not only lose my job but I would be struck off the registerâ
This nurse talks about politicians and drug use.
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âHe seems to have a pathological shamelessnessâ
This
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audience member suggests Boris Johnson will stay in 10 Downing Street until he is âmarched outâ.
âHe looked like a sullen school child being hauled in front of the Eton headmasterâŠitâs the attitude of a man whoâs never been made to answer for anything in his lifeâ
Journalist Zing Tsjeng gives her take on Boris Johnsonâs Partygate hearing
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âIt is nothing but sheer arrogance of people that have lost, and people that want to subvert democracyâ
This audience member says he is against another referendum on leaving the EU.
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âHe wasnât sorry. He was sorry he got caught.â
Labourâs
@jessphillips
questions Boris Johnsonâs integrity and suggests his apology in parliament was disingenuous.
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âLanguage matters. Language is what started in Bosnia. Language is what started in Rwandaâ
Journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown quotes the poet WH Auden while discussing the power of language and defending Gary Linekerâs recent tweet
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âPeople seem to think Meghan Markle was harassed and hounded by the press, that wasnât a millionth of a scratch of the relentless campaign about Jeremy Corbynâ
This
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audience member says the media will not allow a âsocialist to be elected in this countryâ.
â12% of the health and social care work force are foreign nationals, we couldnât function without themâ
This nurse says discouraging foreign nationals from coming to work in social care could cause the system to âcollapse even furtherâ.
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âHeâs just knocking things out of the park and people canât stand itâ
This audience member says Boris Johnson has done a âbrilliant jobâ.
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âHe is now fighting for his survival day in, day outâŠall that Downing Street is thinking about is the next newspaper headline and that is no way to govern a countryâ
Former minister
@RoryStewartUK
discusses the lasting impact of Mondayâs vote of confidence.
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âWeâre better off on day one without a deal and it will continue to get betterâ
Businessman Tim Martin says a no deal Brexit would leave the UK ÂŁ39bn better off than Theresa Mayâs current proposal â because of the lack of âdivorce paymentâ
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âLetâs be really clear about what this is, letâs call it by its name, itâs racism.â
âWeâre the most tolerant lovely country in Europe, itâs not racismâ
This audience member clashes with actor
@LozzaFox
over the treatment of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
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âThe referendum was about leaving the EU and all of its institutions, it was very simple, and thatâs what we should have doneâ says
@BrexitAlex
.
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âItâs an absurd act of gunboat diplomacy.â
Former Commons Speaker John Bercow says No. 10âs actions were âjuvenile and down marketâ after the UK sent two navy vessels to Jersey over a fishing row with France.
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âHe knew exactly what he was saying and I think it is a disgraceâ
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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âIn the next 10 years, Ireland will reunify and Scotland will become independent and we will both be in the European Unionâ says the SNPâs
@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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âThe fact is weâre running out of teachersâŠweâre going to start next year with half our teacher training places not filledâ
The NEUâs
@MaryBoustedNEU
worries that current promises of tax cuts mean funding pulled from already stretched public services, such as teaching.
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âItâs greedy and itâs disgustingâ
This
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audience member, who came to the UK from Romania, criticises hypocrisy in the debate around immigration.
âI think for you to sit there and say that the Tories are looking after the most vulnerable in society is absolutely appallingâ
This audience member criticises the austerity measures adopted by the government.
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