Overview
- Appearing on BBC Question Time in Swindon, Nadine Dorries faced laughter after Labour MP Stephen Kinnock asked whether quitting the ECHR would help or hinder international cooperation.
- Dorries answered that whether it would help or hinder was "irrelevant" and cited an estimated £4 billion a year spent on asylum hotels.
- She argued Reform UK is the only party with a plan to stop illegal migration and told the audience they would not be laughing if Reform were in government.
- Journalist Mariella Frostrup said the UK had started "dehumanising" migrants, drawing a strong round of applause from the audience.
- The panel also debated the grooming‑gang inquiry as Dorries and Conservative MP Harriet Baldwin called for Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips to resign, while Kinnock said there is no "magic bullet" to stop smuggling gangs and Baldwin criticised Labour for scrapping the Rwanda plan.