Reform UK MP and GB News star Lee Anderson was embroiled in a tense row with leftist political commentator Matthew Stadlen.
The pair went to war while discussing the migrant crisis as Lee suggested the Labour Government are unlikely to tackle the problem effectively.
Stadlen took a swipe at the Ashfield MP by suggesting the issue was prevalent while he was chairman of the previous party of government, the Conservatives.
Lee said: “The real problem is the undocumented migrants coming over on boats.
Lee Anderson clashed with Matthew Stadlen
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“Just pick them up and send them back to France, I will keep saying that until I am blue in the face. If we start doing that, they will stop coming.”
Stadlen snapped back: “There are few people in this country who were keener for this to happen than your old boss, Rishi Sunak, who not that long ago appointed as you as deputy chair of the ruling Tory Party.
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Shaking his head, Lee waded in to say it requires a government with a “backbone” to tackle the crisis head-on.
“We have always prided ourselves on border security and our great Navy”, he said.
“We should pick these people up, rescue them and take them back to France. We can do it.”
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GETTYPolitical commentator Emma Woolf waded in on the discussion to say communities are being broken by high levels of immigration - a comment that appeared to leave Stadlen seething as he branded it “unhelpful”.
“There are riots on our streets, Matthew”, she angrily retorted.
“We had far-right criminals acting in totally unacceptable ways, that doesn’t mean communities are falling apart”, he responded.
“I live in Notting Hill, where there is some wealth and a huge amount of inequality”, he said.
“We would all like to live in Notting Hill”, Lee quipped, suggesting Stadlen is not in touch with the societal problems Britain is grappling with.
The commentator hit back to say suggestions society is falling apart as a result of mass migration is a “plain lie”.
