Reform UK’s Nadine Dorries has slammed the “biased” BBC over its selection of the Question Time audience
Question Time was called out by Nadine Dorries (Image: BBC)
Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries has hit out at the BBC’s flagship political show Question Time for its “biased” audience. Dorries, now a member of Reform UK, acted as secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport under the Tories from 2021 until 2022, and seemed to be leveraging her former role as she took aim at the programme on X.
Dorries tweeted: “The audience on @bbcquestiontime tonight is possibly the most biased I’ve ever witnessed. It’s a shocker.” She later retweeted a post from Reform’s Zia Yusuf, who appeared on the programme alongside Labour’s James Murray, Tory Nigel Huddleston, Green Party leader Zack Polanski and journalist Annabel Denham.
Yusuf posted: “Once again Reform were smeared as ‘fascist’ – this time on Question Time. Here was my response.”
He attached a video in which he said: “Okay, so what we want to do is support people on the basis of whether they are legally entitled to be in this country, that’s nothing to do with race, ethnicity or religion.
“You accused me earlier – let alone fascist, you said I was peddling disinformation – and I think people watching at home given the Green Party right now are surging in the polls, it’s important that people know this – when Zack Polanski is making seductive claims to you, it’s important you understand.
Nadine Dorries accused the audience of ‘bias’ (Image: Getty)
“Before coming into politics, he literally made money by charging women on the promise that he could literally enlarge the size of their breasts by hypnotising them. That is a true statement.
“If you think that’s insane, his policies are even more insane – he wants a world without borders, open borders, he wants us to stand down and destroy our nuclear deterrent as Vladimir Putin belligerently marauds into Ukraine, he wants a communist economic system and he wants to legalise all drugs. In Polanski’s version of Britain, it is legal to sell fentanyl, crack cocaine and heroine, but illegal to rent your flat out.”
