A heated dispute broke out on GB News as presenter Nana Akua clashed with political commentator Jonathan Liss over Angela Rayner's plans for migrant camps. The Secretary of State for Housing has granted full planning permission for an asylum centre at a Ministry of Defence site near Bicester, Oxfordshire.
The new building will also sit close to the village of Piddington, where locals voted in September against plans to house 1,256 detained asylum seekers nearby.
Presenter fury over asylum centre approval
During the programme, Nana was left furious by the decision and raged: "You don't know what's there, it's like going 'I've got a load of blokes here, some of them might be rapists, paedophiles, most of them aren't though, so don't worry,' but it only takes one to destroy someone's life."
The presenter argued: "I think they should just stop the thing in the first place; in the meantime, we've got to deal with what is here, and I just think this is ridiculous. You're going to fill a village, destroy a village, and the lives of the people within that village with a load of people you don't even know who they are."
Clash over the word 'destroy'
As Jonathan fired back, "Destroy is a very strong word," Nana doubled down: "It is destroying; there's no other word," which prompted the guest to suggest that the government are just "temporarily changing" the lives of locals instead.
When Nana fumed: "They're destroying it," Jonathan argued: "They're temporarily changing it; it won't be forever." The host hit back: "It might be forever; how do you know? You don't know if they're planning to expand that. We hear that they may well expand that to about 3,000."
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