SMALL-boat migrants to the UK who confronted Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf on a BBC1 Question Time immigration special late last year were placed there by pro-immigration campaigners. That is the devastating central finding of a Daily Telegraph investigation: the Corporation’s flagship current affairs programme, which is supposed to reflect public opinion, was rigged. In the audience were two asylum seekers who vociferously challenged Yusuf, then …
Time for a re-think on BBC1 Question Time?
There have been 1,369 editions of BBC1’s Question Time since its launch under Sir Robin Day in September 1979, and it has an estimated weekly audience of 2.4m in its 10.40pm slot on Thursdays. David Dimbleby has announced he is leaving the show after 25 years in the chair, following 10 years by Sir Robin Day (1979-89) and four from …