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PA reporters & Kate Lally

BBC Fiona Bruce steps down from role after domestic violence comments

BBC presenter Fiona Bruce has stepped down from her role as an ambassador for domestic abuse charity Refuge after comments she made during Thursday's instalment of Question Time.

On the March 9 programme, Ms Bruce interrupted after panel member and journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown said Stanley Johnson's alleged history of violence was "on record".

Ms Bruce then said: "I'm not disputing what you're saying, but just so everyone knows what this is referring to, Stanley Johnson's wife spoke to a journalist, Tom Bower, and she said that Stanley Johnson had broken her nose and that she'd ended up in hospital as a result.

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