EU referendum dominates Walsall Question Time
The EU referendum dominated the debate as Question Time rolled into Walsall last night.
More than half the hour-long show chaired by David Dimbleby centred on the upcoming Brexit vote.
The first question - posed by a young man called Daniel - asked if it is racist to want to leave the EU.
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UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall clashed with Labour's Yvette Cooper.
Mr Nuttall said immigration has 'put British people at the back of the queue' while Ms Cooper decried Nigel Farage's rhetoric as being 'not dissimilar to Enoch Powell'.
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said: "Immigration to this country is by far much more a blessing than a curse."
Former Channel 4 economics editor Paul Mason described Vote Leave campaigner and former mayor of London Boris Johnson as 'debasing the rationality of the debate'.
As the programme entered its second half the discussion moved on to the NHS and its future.
Audience member Kevin Wilkes asked the panel if it is 'time for the NHS to be run independently rather than like a political football?'
One angry NHS worker in the crowd said Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt should resign - but Tory Energy Secretary Amber Rudd, perhaps unsurprisingly, said 'naturally I disagree'.
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust board member Harjinder Kang was also in the crowd and said the NHS 'needs to be taken out of the political environment'.
