Newsnight presenter spectacularly clashes with Reform UK’s house affairs spokesman in heated BBC interview
Victoria Derbyshire clashed with Zia Yusuf on the BBC (Picture: BBC)
Zia Yusuf and Victoria Derbyshire clashed throughout their BBC interview as he instructed viewers in regards to the social gathering’s plans to scrap the Equality Act. It follows Reform’s Suella Braverman, stating she needed to eradicate the “pernicious, divisive notion of protected traits” within the Act. Yusuf was defending the notion on BBC Newsnight, leaving Derbyshire stuttering over her phrases. She stated: “You’re going to scrap the Equality Act, however you’re nonetheless going to guard, for instance, pregnant girls from being sacked as a result of they’re pregnant?” “That’s precisely what we’d do,” the Reform supporter replied.
Derbyshire then requested what Reform would do for the disabled inhabitants, including: “This act means when you’ve got a incapacity, you’ve received an equal proper to a job, equal entry to public transport, or sensible stuff that most individuals don’t even take into consideration – doorframes should be a sure measurement so individuals in a wheelchair can actually get out and in of a constructing. Do you not need to shield these individuals?”
Because the interview received extra heated, Derbyshire stated: “I’m not decreasing something. I’m actually going to undergo the checklist and ask what a Reform authorities would shield.”
BBC Newsnight will be watched on BBC iPlayer.
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