BBC Question Time accused of ‘coaching’ migrant as Reform MP blasts ‘headset’ | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV | EUROtoday

BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce confirmed that migrants had been invited on the present on Thursday (December 4), and requested those that have been within the viewers about their particular expertise. Bruce had advised one man who arrived within the UK from Iran and welcomed a child daughter within the UK that she had welcomed him onto the present as a result of “everyone is talking about people like you”.

The information sparked uproar from viewers at residence and a number of MPs, however Reform MP Richard Tice was one who noticed some headphones on one viewers member and questioned what they have been. Taking to X, Tice wrote: “Did BBC QT give headset and coaching to this Channel illegal migrant? He then has the cheek to tell us, British taxpayers, that we must not leave the ECHR… could not make it up.” Others had additionally noticed the headphones and questioned whether or not it was a headset, with one consumer calling it “sad propaganda”.

Another wrote: “I say, well spotted.” While a 3rd added: “If this is accurate and QT audience members were wired up to lecture taxpayers on the ECHR, then any pretence of BBC impartiality is finished.” Others claimed it appeared “rehearsed”.

However, some viewers disagreed on what was in his ear, with one consumer writing: “This will age very badly when it’s identified as an ALLD or similar.” While one other wrote: “Those are Shokz Richard – bone conduction headphones.”

One consumer requested Grok, X’s AI software, to elucidate what it thought the machine was, to which it responded: “The ear device in the photo looks like a small black earpiece hooked over the ear, with a thin wire or tube extending downward. It resembles standard equipment used for simultaneous translation in TV debates, often provided to non-native speakers.”

Daily Express has contacted BBC for remark.

Later within the present, Bruce mentioned to the migrant within the viewers: “You came from Iran. I just wonder what you think of this idea, because one thing the government is talking about is if countries become safe once you have left them, in your case Iran, would you be then happy to go back?”

He responded: “There are two points we need to take care about. Physically, the regime changed in Iran, it’s safe for people like me to return to Iran.

“But the second factor we have to take care about right here is, for me, I’ve a four-month-old daughter, she was born right here. She’s rising up right here, studying English. She gained’t know the right way to learn and write Farsi, and even communicate it.”

The full episode is on the market to observe on BBC iPlayer.