BBC under fire after Channel migrants placed on Question Time by refugee campaigners
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The BBC has been slammed after it emerged two asylum seekers who appeared on an episode of Question Time had been coached by charity campaigners.In the episode, filmed on December 5 in Dover, the audience featured two men who had crossed the Channel in small boats.The BBC previously told GB News that all those on the panel were informed "the day before the show that there would be people in the audience who had been through the asylum system".Now, it has been revealed the two men were placed in the audience and coached beforehand by the migration support charity Imix.
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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say One of the asylum seekers featured in the programme was Ashraf, an Afghan national who crossed the Channel.He told the panel he arrived in the UK around five year ago after trying to seek sanctuary in Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia, Romania, Austria and Germany, adding he left Afghanistan because it "is not safe".Later on in the programme, host Fiona Bruce introduced an Iranian man in the...
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