Last night’s BBC Question Time was in the Remainer heartlands of Leicester where host Fiona Bruce was joined by both Brexiteers and pro-EU politicians. Yesterday marked a huge and vital day in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s political career as he finally agreed to a Brexit deal with the EU.
However, his deal is yet to face the House of Commons where it could either pushed through or rejected.
Ms Bruce was joined by Conservative minister Matt Hancock, Labour’s Annaliese Dodds and Brexit Party MEP Martin Daubney.
The panel was completed by Scottish National Party’s Philippa Whitford and CEO of Barnardo’s Javed Khan.
The big topic of the night was Mr Johnson’s new Brexit deal which caused fiery clashes between Ms Dodds, Mr Daubney and Mr Hancock.
At the beginning of the show, Ms Bruce asked the audience how many people in the audience actually supported Mr Johnson’s EU deal.
She said: “There is considerable criticism of the deal so far.
“Does anyone in the audience support the deal?”
Mr Hancock laughed as three people slowly raised their hands.
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“And if on Saturday, we don’t support this deal, will they take accountability and responsibility if we leave with no deal?”
The audience applauded the young Brexiteer despite most of them not agreeing with Mr Johnson’s deal.
Ms Bruce then asked another audience member who supported Mr Johnson’s deal to share is thoughts.
He said: “So really, as good or bad as the deal is, we’ve waited a long time for this.
“It’s finally happened. I think we’ve just got to take it, we’ve just gotta settle for it.
“Let’s be real, we’ll have to wait another six months, another 12 months, another 24 months until we get another deal.
“It might get slightly better overtime but we don’t have the time for that.
“We voted leave, that’s it.
“We need to leave now otherwise no deal is the only other option I can think of.”
Ms Bruce said in response: “So you’re saying, any deal will do?”
The young man said: “Yeah, any deal at this point because we saw from the last deal that it just got shut down three times and if it’s going to get shut down three times more and then three times more, there’s no point right?”
Mr Hancock nodded and said: “Just get it done.”
