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The man who lied about murdered school children

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

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I'd Never Let Anjem Choudry on Question Time

I would never have Anjem Choudry on the programme, even when he was popping up pretty much everywhere. I've felt that giving a platform to obviously dangerous and obnoxious people was self-defeating. It came to something of a culmination when they put Nick Griffin on question time. Do you remember that? And I was very much of the view that he shouldn't have been there. That validity afforded by a seat at the question time table, sent an implicit, subliminal message to the British public,. that he was somehow yin to a decent politician's yang.

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