The BBC is facing scrutiny following the publication of a dossier on impartiality by The Telegraph in November.
Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform, claimed Question Time had been “utterly discredited” by the decision to give a platform to people who “should have been deported”.
He called the situation a “set up job”, claiming it was an attempt from the BBC to “get the British public to sympathise” with migrants.
In a video posted to X, he said: “We’re seeing this now more and more and more, total absolute bias and prejudice from the BBC.
“And frankly, Question Time had been, over the years, a great programme. After last night, it is utterly discredited.”
During the Question Time segment on the migrant crisis, Bruce said there were several men in the audience who “came over on small boats and are former asylum seekers”.
She invited the man who came to the UK from Iran to share his thoughts.
He responded: “Let me say something first, I just want to clear [up] that leaving the [ECHR] doesn’t just affect the migrants. It would give ordinary people one less core [way] to protect their rights.”
The man went on to mention the “peace settlement in Northern Ireland” and risks to “our security co-operation”.
‘Reading from his phone’
Reacting to the segment on social media, Mr Yusuf said: “So on Question Time tonight, the BBC asked a question of an Iranian illegal migrant in the audience.
“His ‘question’ was him reading from his phone a list of reasons why Britain should not withdraw from the ECHR. He even mentioned the Northern Ireland Protocol.”
In the exchange with the Afghan migrant, Bruce asked the man if he tried to claim asylum in other countries before coming to the UK.
He said: “I [applied] for asylum, I was a refugee, and I passed many [interviews] in different countries.”
Pressed on where he tried to settle, he said: “My first interview was in Turkey, and the second was in Macedonia, in Serbia, in Romania, Austria, and recently in Germany. But [I ended] here.”
He added: “These [countries] just [rejected] me, and they didn’t accept me.”
