Question Time audience member explodes at Starmer and Reeves - 'Picking our pockets'

A furious Question Time audience member erupted at the panel members during discussions about Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves resigning. The BBC programme was discussing whether the Prime Minister and Chancellor should resign if they break tax pledges in the Autumn Budget. Amid this conversation, one audience member questions which party he could trust after feeling betrayed by both the Tories and Labour.

The retired police officer said he saw his salary decrease year on year under the Conservatives and austerity. However, he said the economy was still not fixed during this time, and now Labour are "picking your pockets". He questioned: "How can I possibly trust any of you?"

Tonight's episode featured Labour Party chair Anna Turley MP, former Tory energy minister Graham Stuart, general secretary of the TUC Paul Nowak, and Daily Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley.

The guests also discussed the recent accidental prisoner releases, with Mr Stuart accusing the Government of being "dishonest" about them. He said "something has gone badly wrong" since Labour came into power.

Ms Turley called for an "urgent review" of the mistaken releases, saying "chaos" in the system has been "going on for some time".

She said: "This feels like another rock that we've lifted up and there's just such a mess underneath that we've got to sort out."

Two men were mistakenly released from HMP Wandsworth recently - sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif and fraudster William Smith.

Kaddour-Cherif, an Algerian man, was let out on October 29 after being convicted of indecent exposure in November 2024. He was sentenced to an 18-month community order and placed on the sex offenders' register for five years.

Smith handed himself back in on Thursday following his sentence of 45 months in prison for multiple fraud offences at Croydon Crown Court on Monday.