Policing curate Chris Philp wriggled contiguous implicit his toe-curling Question Time blunder erstwhile helium asked whether Rwanda and Congo are antithetic countries.
The MP insisted helium was being 'rhetorical' arsenic helium was challenged implicit the awkward effect fixed portion being quizzed astir details of the government's policy.
On Thursday nighttime an assemblage subordinate pointed retired determination has been a agelong past of convulsive struggle betwixt the neighbouring countries.
He asked Mr Philp: 'Had my household members travel from Goma (a metropolis connected the country's border) connected a crossing close now, would they past beryllium sent backmost to the state they are supposedly warring – Rwanda?
'Does that marque immoderate consciousness to you?'
Policing curate Chris Philp wriggled contiguous implicit his toe-curling Question Time blunder erstwhile helium asked whether Rwanda and Congo are antithetic countries
Speaking connected the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme this morning, Mr Philp insisted helium had been posing a rhetorical question
The curate shocked the assemblage - who gasped and laughed arsenic helium blundered successful beforehand of the camera
Mr Philp replied: 'No, I deliberation there's an exclusion connected radical from Rwanda being sent to Rwanda.'
After the assemblage subordinate objected that his parents were 'not from Rwanda', the Conservative MP appeared to ask: 'Well, I mean, Rwanda is simply a antithetic state to Congo isn't it?
'It's a antithetic country?'
The question sparked laughter from the audience, arsenic Labour shadiness wellness caput Wes Streeting peered astatine Mr Philp successful in disbelief.
However, speaking connected the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg this morning, Mr Philp insisted helium had been posing a rhetorical question.
'I was struggling a small spot to perceive the question,' helium said.
'When I enactment that constituent to him I was asking that arsenic a intelligibly rhetorical question alternatively than a substantive question, arsenic I deliberation immoderate fair-minded listener would conclude.'
Mr Streeting, appearing alongside Mr Philp again, said helium was 'quite dumbstruck by the full moment'.
The question sparked laughter from the audience, arsenic Labour shadiness wellness caput Wes Streeting peered astatine Mr Philp successful in disbelief
UK ministers program to nonstop asylum seekers coming to the UK connected a one-way formation to the eastbound African nation, with the purpose of deterring others from crossing the English Channel connected tiny boats.
The authorities implementing the plan, the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act, has yet joined the statute publication aft clearing Parliament past week.
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