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Hours after he appeared on BBC’s Question Time Zia Yusuf moved over to GB News to complain about his stint on the show after Fiona Bruce announced that illegal migrants had been invited on the show. Speaking to host Alex Armstrong, Zia Yusuf encouraged people to watch it as he shared his rant, saying: “Just watch it, if you look at some clips circulating on social media, you can watch it. I know it can be quite painful to watch the BBC these days. It is worth watching just so you can realise that everything we’re saying is true.” 

He explained that he had to process his appearance on the show because he “could not comprehend what was going on”. Yusuf fumed; he couldn’t believe that it occurred in such an “open and blatant way”. He referred to the man who was asked to comment, given his experience arriving in the UK on a small boat, stating: “The Iranian who was reading the statement on why Britain shouldn’t leave the ECHR, at one point, started talking about the Northern Ireland protocol.”

Armstrong raised his eyebrows in confusion as Yusuf continued in his rant and branded it “ridiculous”. He added: “I think it was set up to try and put Reform on the spot, and the evidence for that actually is that Fiona asked me directly, ‘Would you deport this particular gentleman in that audience?’, which is obviously a very emotional appeal.

“I get it, these are all human beings. Ultimately, as I said in my answer, the vast majority of people coming across the English Channel illegally are men, that’s a statistical fact, if you’re entering a war zone, it’s generally men first, if you’re fleeing a war zone, it’s women and children first.

“That’s the most obvious point! So absolutely they must be deported.”

And on the show, Yusuf had told the migrant who had been refused asylum that he would be deported if Nigel Farage wins the next election. Ashraf, who had crossed the Channel, said he had tried to seek sanctuary in Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia, Romania, Austria, and Germany before reaching the UK five years ago.

He said: “If you are in this country illegally, let me be crystal clear. If Nigel Farage is our next Prime Minister, and that is obviously what we’re working to deliver, if you’re in this country illegally, you will be deported back to the country from which you came.”

The BBC said: “All of 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.”