After BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce rebuked a Tory MP who was sitting on the panel, the audience burst out in laughter.
As Ms. Bruce cracked a joke, Bim Afolami appeared to be winding himself up in knots defending the government’s handling of HS2. Stephen Flynn, a fellow panellist, was heard saying, “Put down the spade,” in the background.
The back and forth began when Ms Bruce said the Government had had “quite a long time” to deliver HS2.
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