Politics

This week's BBC Question Time was tense as the panel examined the claim that Boris Johnson was knighting his father.

It came after Rishi Sunak announced plans to permanently bar asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on unauthorised small boats.

Italy’s Matteo Salvini - who currently serves in Italy’s first far-right led government since WWII - praised the plan as ‘harsh but fair’.

“If this government was to fight the next election on domestic issues they know they’d be wiped out”

“Why do we pretend that people like him exist in a sealed BBC bubble of perfect propriety, when no opinions exist?"

Unions representing civil service staff had fired off letters to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak demanding action.

At the time of the alleged incident, he was the deputy leader of the Conservative group on Stroud District Council.

Data shows that the UK ranks 16th when compared with the 27 EU countries for the number of asylum claims granted in 2021.

He asked who is inspiration was after arguing his immigration policies are “a complete and utter disgrace”.