Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway was forced to apologise during the show after she made a "factual error" during a discussion about asylum seekers.
Minister for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration Tom Pursglove appeared on Friday's ITV show to discuss the news that asylum seekers will be sent to Rwanda. Kate and her co-host Adil Ray discussed the ongoing situation with Mr Pursglvoe but the interview became rather heated.
Adil decided to have his say and point-blank asked Mr Pursglove if he would ever go and live in Rwanda, the Mirror reports. He said: "You are sending them to a country that last year the UK Foreign Office said it was still a grave concern when it came to human rights. That's the UK Foreign Office!
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"And saying that there are no rights there for LGBTQ members of our community and you are going to send people there.
"In 2018, the police shot 12 protesters dead, refugee protesters. You are sending people there, where is the ethics in that? Forget the legal duty, forget the strategy, where is the ethics which our country and our reputation depends on?"
Kate then chimed in and said: "We took 250 refugees from Rwanda into the UK last year, there must have been a reason why we felt they had a case for safe harbour here and that rankles hard with people who think, 'hold on, we're sending people to Rwanda that are already in fear'."
As Mr Pursglove attempted to argue the case, Adil butted in and asked: "If you had to, would you move your family to Rwanda? If you had to could you go and live in Rwanda?"
The Tory MP replied: "I don't think that's relevant," but Adil was having none it and shouted: "Of course it's relevant! If it's not good enough for you, why is it good enough for a Syrian or Afghan refugee?
"It's got to be somewhere that we think is safe, these are human beings, these are people who have come to us for help!"
Adil then proceeded to repeatedly ask Mr Pursglove if he would go and live in Rwanda as he attempted to divert and avoid answering the question.
Later on, as the ITV breakfast show returned from an ad break, mother-of-two Kate announced: "I'd just like to apologise. I made an error, a factual error Adil.
"When we were discussing with the Minister about people being taken asylum from Rwanda... I was making the point, as you were, that some people don't think Rwanda is a very safe place for asylum seekers.
"I said 250 fleeing the country were granted asylum in the UK, that was wrong, they were granted asylum in Europe in the whole," Kate continued.
"So, I guess the point is the same though? The point is the same, that they didn't feel safe in Rwanda, they wanted to come to Europe, but I want to get my facts right and I apologise for that misinformation," she added.
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