Piers Morgan vs Diane Abbott – fair question or stitch-up? You decide …
Diane Abbott was on Good Morning Britain today where she refused to answer Piers Morgan’s question about Labour policy on illegal immigrants, preferring to focus on the Windrush scandal.
Morgan said he wasn’t trying to trick her, Abbott said viewers would ‘make up their own mind’.
Go on then …
Another quality car crash from Diane Abbott. But simple fact is both parties are all over the place on illegal immigration. pic.twitter.com/CM6pQoLZPx
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) April 30, 2018
I wasn’t trying to trick you @HackneyAbbott. It was a simple question: would Labour let illegal immigrants stay in Britain or deport them? You criticised Rudd for her failure to ‘get basic facts right’ yet couldn’t give me a straight factual answer to this fundamental question.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 30, 2018
Viewers watching will make their own mind up about what you were trying to do. As for me I will keep campaigning for justice, not treating the #Windrush generation and others who have a right to be here as if they were illegal.
— Diane Abbott (@HackneyAbbott) April 30, 2018
I was trying to get a simple answer to a simple question. Your work on Windrush has been excellent. Your failure to explain Labour’s policy on illegal immigrants is just bizarre. What IS it? Do they stay or do they go? https://t.co/1ZY8bfB3uA
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 30, 2018
Here’s what other people made of it
It was fair questioning. Not answered because she wanted to talk about Windrush victims and Govt chaos rather than Labour policy on deportation. But that also might be because of the toxic nature of the immigration debate in Britain.
— Krishnan Guru-Murthy (@krishgm) April 30, 2018
I fear it wasn’t answered because Ms Abbott doesn’t actually know the answer… https://t.co/B38KVvhiWo
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 30, 2018
Well @piersmorgan that’s you off @HackneyAbbott Christmas card list… 🙈
— Kay Burley (@KayBurley) April 30, 2018
Here it is in full, just in case…
WATCH: @piersmorgan and @susannareid100 ask Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott about Labour’s policy on illegal immigrants https://t.co/ezjxzjezLm pic.twitter.com/EYY9JMdQYO
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) April 30, 2018
