Reform UK has lodged an official complaint against the BBC as the row over the most recent episode of Question Time rumbles on.

Nigel Farage’s party lodged the complaint after two of the people in the audience were revealed to be migrants who arrived in the UK illegally.

In his letter to both the complaints team and Board of Directors, the party’s Head of Policy Zia Yusuf, who appeared on the panel, said: “This programme represented a serious failure of impartiality, editorial judgment, and audience selection standards expected of the BBC.”

As part of the long-running show’s immigration special from Dover, an Afghan and Iranian who had both arrived on small boats participated and asked questions to the panel.

Also on the panel was Dover and Deal MP and Migration Minister Mike Tapp, Conservative MP for Bexhill and Battle Dr Kieran Mullan, Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper and Green Party Leader Zack Polanski.

A BBC spokesman told GB News: “All the parties represented on the panel were told the day before the show that there would be people in the audience who had been through the asylum system.”

Defending Mr Yusuf, Mr Farage said: “The BBC sunk to new depths last night on their Question Time show, their flagship politics show for over four decades, where they had two audience members who had illegally come into Britain by boat.

“Both of those individuals should not even be in the United Kingdom, they’ve broken in illegally. They should have been deported.”

Mr Farage continued: “”The whole thing was a complete, absolute set up job, and we’re seeing this now more and more and more total absolute bias and prejudice from the BBC.

“Frankly, Question Time had been, over the years, a great programme. After last night, it is utterly discredited.”

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