BBC Question Time Audience Laughs After MPs Policy Blunder

A Reform UK MP was laughed at by the BBC Question Time audience after he was left stumped by the detail of one of his own party’s policies.

Danny Kruger admitted he didn’t know how Reform plans to save £10 billion from the welfare budget by ending payouts to people with mild anxiety.

He was quizzed on his party’s plans for government by Question Time presenter Fiona Bruce.

She said: “Just coming back to the cuts in welfare, because I’ve heard Reform say this every time asked, ‘we’d get rid of benefits for people with mild anxiety’.

“What percentage of the welfare bill do those people make up?”

Kruger, the MP for East Wiltshire who defected from the Tories last year, replied: “I don’t know what that number is, Fiona.”

As the audience laughed, the presenter asked him: “How can you possibly know it’s going to save you £10 billion?”

The MP said: “Excuse me, I don’t know every fact and figure.”

Bruce said: “You’ve just given us a fact which is £10 billion, but you have no idea how you’d get it.”

Kruger insisted he could “stand that up later if you like”.

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