Question Time audience member's grilling of Tory MP during 13 years of 'dismal' rule goes viral

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A Question Time audience member quizzed Tory MP Andrew Murrison about what she described as a 13-year "dismal" past under the conservative diet.

The episode, which aired Thursday night and filmed in Bristol, featured Mr Murrison and Labour's shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry, Liberal Democrat MP Helen Morgan, the chief executive of Oxfam Danny Sriskandarajah and The Spectator editor Fraser Nelson.

Audience member Claire Stewart-Hall took aim at Mr Murrison about the Conservative government's record since coming to power in 2010 , later shared in a Twitter clip that has since been viewed more than 6.8 million times.

Claire Stewart-Hall described the last 13 "dismal" years under the Tory Party.

She said, "To be honest, I'm amazed at the gap between the audience and the panel, and the idea that you think you're succeeding on green power, or that people are supporting human beings who wash up on our shores or who are deported to Rwanda. I am completely stunned.

"The way we talk about serious youth violence is not to talk about crime is to talk about the trauma they've really gone through over the past two years."

"You've cut funding, you've cut school budgets, we don't can't hire teachers, we can't hire teaching assistants.

"You've cut social workers, you've cut local services to the bone and then you worry about anti-social behavior. There are no services for young people."

She added, "There is a huge gap between what you say and what people experience. Why people don't can't they buy a house? Look at their salary: they're teachers, they've been to college, they've paid over £30,000, if not more, to go to college.

"Use rent control. You want have more houses? Build more houses because you can find the money to build HS2 and drill through the forests.

"That's what we're talking about - these are ideological choices. You did n...