Monday, 18 Nov 2024

BBC Question Time: Fury as young activist Tom Harwood ONLY Brexiteer on panel yet again

Mr Harwood appeared alongside Conservative MP Vicky Ford and Labour’s Louise Haigh on the BBC One programme on Thursday night. The debate was hosted by Fiona Bruce and also featured financial journalist Martin Lewis and the Green Party’s Sian Berry. Viewers and Express.co.uk readers have reacted with fury to the show’s presenter Fiona Bruce’s line of questioning on Mr Harwood, who is a journalist for Guido Fawkes.

One commented: “As usual he was the only Brexiteer on Question Time tonight and the only one speaking sense about Brexit.

“Of course he pointed out that he was the only one on the panel AGAIN for Brexit and as usual Fiona Bruce drowned his objections out pretending they run a balanced show.

“What a farce the BBC run every week.”

Meanwhile someone else said: “Tom’s last appearance on QT, he’s too good and the BBC won’t like it.”

The audience for the show in Chichester warmly received the young activist, cheering him wildly for labelling the EU a “pretend country”.

He added: “It’s a farce, a total farce.”

Previously, Mr Harwood has ordered that only an MP who voted for Brexit in 2016 could deliver the result of the referendum.

He ran the Student Leave campaign ahead of the vote three years ago.

He now works for the conservative and Brexit supporting website Guido Fawkes.

Speaking to Express.co.uk when Theresa May was still trying to get her Brexit deal through Parliament he claimed only a committed Brexiteer can truly deliver Brexit.

He said: “I just wish that Brexit was being delivered by people that who believed in it.

“You would think it would be natural in a situation where the most people who voted for anything in the history of this country, 17.4 million people, you get this extraordinary mandate to deliver this seismic once in a generation change for the country.”

Numerous topics were covered on the show, including Brexit and who should lead the Conservative Party.

Ms Ford left the audience applauding after suggesting a new leader should be “competent”.

She insisted that the majority of the country voted to leave the EU but are still not being represented by the politicians they have elected.

But Ms Haigh was left red-faced after the audience laughed down her claims another referendum should be held.

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