BBC Breakfast turned very heated as Naga Munchetty and Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf clashed over deportation.
BBC Breakfast‘s Naga Munchetty had a tense clash with Reform UK MP Zia Yusuf over deportation as the morning news programme got very heated. Yusuf came onto the show to discuss former Conservative MP Nadine Dorries defecting to Reform on September 4, but the conversation quickly moved onto Reform’s stance on deportation illegal migrants from the UK.
Yusuf said: “Nigel has always been very clear. In phase one of the programme, we will address fighting-age men and adults in this country; it would be foolish to do otherwise.”
Naga asked: “But you believe that women should be deported and children?” The MP replied: “Here is our message. If you are in this country illegally, you should not expect to stay under a Reform government. Deportation command will find you, detain you, and deport you.”
BBC Breakfast turned very tense as Naga and Zia discussed deportation (Image: BBC )
A frosty Naga asked: “Regardless of age or sex?” as Yusuf responded: “Again, we’ve got to start somewhere, and that is the point Nigel is trying to make. Nigel is preparing for government. We’re not going to be like Labour, if the British public see fit to elect a Reform government, we are very clear on what deportation command will focus on.”
Naga bluntly replied: “I don’t believe you are clear,” as Yusuf hit back: “It is not the children that mothers in Epping are protesting against, it is the fighting age males that in many cases, are terrorising local communities.”
There was a lengthy pause as Naga repeated: “Terrorising local communities? Can you expand on that? That is a broad and dangerous generalisation.”
Yusuf stated: “Not if I say in some cases, which is what I said. I think it is you who is twisting in what I said. And we just had a guilty verdict; this is not subjective aspersion. We just had a guilty verdict on a grim crime on a minor, there is data from the government. These are government statistics; it might make people feel uncomfortable, but one of the reasons the country is in the state it is in is because we’ve had politicians who have not had the courage to have this conversation.”
BBC Breakfast airs weekdays at 6am on BBC1.
