The veteran broadcaster got here underneath fireplace but once more as she hosted one other hour-long instalment of the politics present.
Query Time host Fiona Bruce got here underneath fireplace for “bias” on the BBC present (Picture: BBC)
Query Time host Fiona Bruce faces recent bias claims following a heated shouting match between Robert Jenrick and Jon Sopel on the politics present. On Thursday evening (February 19), the 61-year-old broadcaster returned to the helm of the BBC present, this time airing from the Hampshire city of Ringwood. She welcomed 4 panellists onto the present, together with Labour MP Heidi Alexander, Tory MP Richard Holden, Reform MP Robert Jenrick, and journalist and podcaster John Sopel.
It didn’t take lengthy earlier than Jenrick and Sopel locked horns in a heated argument because the Information Brokers presenter slammed Jenrick for his flip-flop angle in authorities. He fumed: “You had been a Remainer when David Cameron was the Prime Minister. You had been a Brexiter when Boris [was in charge]. You stated, ‘It’s a disgrace that shameful Liz Truss continues to be within the Conservative Social gathering’, however you voted for her funds.
“And now, when the Tories are languishing within the polls, which they most definitely are, you’ve gone to the occasion that’s main within the polls”, he raged, referring to Jenrick’s defamation of Reform.
Jenrick shot again: “I’m not going to take any classes from the person who stated that Peter Mandelson was a category act when he was appointed as our ambassador to Washington. I don’t assume that you simply’re an excellent choose.” The broadcaster was compelled to scream over them each to cease them arguing earlier than transferring on with the present.
She sparked backlash when she jumped to Sopel’s defence, reminding the politician that the podcaster “isn’t asking anybody to vote for him” and that Reform chief Nigel Farage “had some very complimentary issues to say about Lord Mandelson” earlier than his fall from grace.
A fourth agreed: “Fiona Bruce, and earlier than her, Sopel and his like, epitomise the entrenched political bias all through BBC Information and present affairs protection. I hate paying the obligatory tax to fund its pervasive leftist groupthink.” A fifth chimed in with: “Fiona Bruce was not impartial there, virtually leaping in to avoid wasting Sopel.”
This is not the primary time that Bruce has come underneath fireplace for “bias” on the present. She just lately sparked uproar earlier this month when she mentioned the most recent Epstein developments. The TV star is but to handle these claims publicly.
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