Oh dear. Poor Chris Philp has done it again. Fronting up the broadcast brief last night, the policing minister was wheeled out on Question Time to sell the government’s migration mission. But the Home Office minister appeared to make a bit of a blunder when asked a question about the Rwanda scheme. One audience member who said he came from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, asked Philp:

I come from a neighbouring country called Congo, if you know geographically that it is located right next door to Rwanda. And right now in Goma there’s a genocide going on and there’s such a big conflict going on with people from Rwanda. So had my family members come from Goma on a crossing right now would they be sent back to the country that they’re supposedly warring, Rwanda? Does that make sense to you?’

However, the Tory MP seemed unable to grasp that the two countries were separate. ‘No, I think there’s an exclusion on people from Rwanda being sent to Rwanda,’ Philp told the audience. ‘They’re not from Rwanda, they’re from Congo,’ the audience member shot back. A puzzled Philp replied: ‘Well … Rwanda is a different country to Congo, isn’t it? It’s a different country.’

The reaction from Wes Streeting appeared to say it all…

Policing Minister Chris Philp has just asked if Congo is a different country from Rwanda while on BBC's Question Time 👀 pic.twitter.com/XO4cTo4WCc

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26.04.2024

Oh dear. Poor Chris Philp has done it again. Fronting up the broadcast brief last night, the policing minister was wheeled out on Question Time to sell the government’s migration mission. But the Home Office minister appeared to make a bit of a blunder when asked a question about the Rwanda scheme. One audience member who said he came from the........

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