'SORT IT OUT!'
Good Morning Britain viewers slam Adil Ray over ‘car crash’ interview on refugee row with Tory MP
GOOD Morning Britain's Adil Ray clashed with a Tory MP today over the Government's plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
He came under fire from viewers for interrupting Wales Secretary Simon Hart during a heated debate over Afghanistan and Syrian refugees being sent abroad.
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The 47-year-old was hosting GMB alongside Charlotte Hawkins when the pair quizzed Hart, who claimed the Government aims to "control our borders not close them."
Ray said: "Why is it Simon Hart that we say to Ukrainian refugees that you can come and live in our homes and we’ll pay you to do that but we say to Afghanistan and Syrian refugees, ‘I’m sorry but we’re going to send you to Rwanda?'
"Why is it one rule for Ukrainians and another rule for the others?"
"I think we have to make a distinction between refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants and a particular emphasis on the Channel crossing, it’s about economic migrants…,” Hart replied before Ray interrupted: "But without a legal system you can’t make that distinction.
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"You’re going to make that distinction in Rwanda which seems absurd.
"Let me put it to you," Ray continued. "If a boat comes over from Calais, it’s got a Syrian refugee, it’s got an Afghanistan refugee and a Ukrainian refugee who didn’t go through the legal process but decided to come over on a boat.
"Will you send that Ukrainian migrant, refugee, whatever you want to call them, to Rwanda as well?"
Hart hit back: "I think the suggestion that it’s just going to be a mechanical process which isn’t going to take into account any of the distinguishing details that you refer to I think that’s unrealistic.
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“The whole point of this is to actually enable us to control our borders rather than close our borders.
"It’s designed to make sure that we can look after as many people as we can in as humane a fashion as we can and it’s actually about protecting people who at the moment are risking everything including their lives by subjecting themselves to criminal gangs."
GMB fans were irritated by the presenter cutting off the MP and took to Twitter.
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One said: "Simon Hart - Car crash interview! #GMB."
Another asked: “Why do the hosts of @GMB never let anyone finish a god damn sentence or answer a question in full before they have to interrupt and belittle their guests! Seriously sort ur attitude out!"
However, a third said: "Excellent from Adil Ray on @GMB here."
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