Moment Fiona Bruce erupts at BBC QT panellist in fiery clash: 'Answer the question!'

was involved in a heated debate during the latest episode of after one polirician refused to answer one audience member's question. During Thursday's visit (May 22) to the studios, the 61-year-old broadcaster welcomed five new panellists onto the debate programme to discuss the biggest issues affecting Brits this week.

Joining Fiona on the panel tonight are Labour MP Nick Thomas-Symonds, Conservative politician Kieran Mullan, editor-in-chief of The Economist Zanny Minton Beddoes, barrister and author Hashi Mohamed, and journalist Inaya Folarin Iman. Halfway through the programme, the broadcaster invited Tory MP Kieran back into the conversation as they debated whether or not it is right to let criminals leave prison early. She began: "Keiran, I know you're itching to come back in, do you want to answer the question from the person in the audience who just said: 'Why don't you just build more prisons? If you feel so strongly people staying in prison why don't you build more prisons?'"

Kieran began: "Well, I think it's important to answer two points that have been made..." before the host asked him again: "Sorry, do you want to answer the question?"

The politician attempted to get his point out once again before Fiona fumed: "No, I want you to answer the question from the audience, that's the point of the programme."

Clearly annoyed, he replied: "Of course, I believe in ensuring we have enough prison spaces to lock people up, but can I just add that the most recently opened prison by Labour we built.

"We built that prison in place, it just so happened that it had finished while we were out of government. I regret that we weren't able to build more prisons at a faster rate.

"But if we're saying that the early release of prisoners that Labour have had to undertake is a demonstration of a system we left, let's remember that last time they were in they let out 70,000 prisoners earlier because of their mismanagement of the prison service and we haven't had to release anything like that number of people. So I think that gives you some sort of perspective."

Fiona intejected with: "Oh, so you're saying you're both equally bad?" which he chose to ignore.

He continued: "About the broader debate about what we do with prisoners is obviously we have to distinguish between those people who we feel can do more to divert from crime, to set on a different path [and those who can't]. And I believe very passionately about that."

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