BBC Question Time's Fiona Bruce forced to halt show as she rages 'hang on!'

Fiona Bruce was forced to interrupt Question Time as she locked horns with Labour's Stephen Kinnock. Joining the presenter on the panel was Kinnock, Tory MP Harriett Baldwin, broadcaster Mariella Frostrup and former politician Nadine Dorries.

Tensions rose when the discussion turned to the UK's ongoing migrant crisis, despite Keir Starmer's pledge to "smash the gangs". The panel was challenged on whether the government's one-in, one-out scheme is actually working, following reports that a man deported to France under the policy had returned to the UK by small boat.

One audience member voiced her frustration over the record number of migrants entering the UK illegally, asking: "Why is it that Poland can do all of this and we can't? You can't go into Poland. There aren't any illegal immigrants. But in the UK you can come in anytime and go to hotels."

Kinnock responded: "When the United Kingdom was in the European Union, we were part of something called The Dublin Convention. The Dublin Convention enables any country that was a signatory to it to send somebody back to the first country where they tried to claim asylum."

Interjecting, Bruce remarked that Britain "hardly did that." Kinnock snapped back: "Well that's what a deterrent is."

Refusing to let it go, the presenter grew frustrated and said: "But... but..." Unable to get a word in, she eventually raised her hand and declared: "Hang on!"

She continued: "We had The Dublin Convention, but we actually sent very few people back using that Dublin Convention and you know it."

"Because it was a deterrent because people weren't coming," Kinnock argued. To which Bruce shot back: "Even when people were coming we didn't."

When the Labour minister insisted that the small boats issue didn't exist while the UK was in the European Union, the BBC host clarified: "People came in lorries, Stephen."

Kinnock added: "What happened when we left the European Union, we came out of The Dublin Convention. All the bright ideas of somebody called Nigel Farage. That is why I think it's right to call these boats the Farage boats. These are the Brexit boats."