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Polly Hudson

'I want to stick up for Fiona Bruce – even though I think she was wrong'

We have somehow gone from 50 shades of grey, to none. These days, everything is black or white, extreme left or far right, leave or remain.

There’s nothing in between, no nuance. So this may seem strange, but I want to stick up for Fiona Bruce – even though I think she was wrong.

The BBC’s Question Time presenter has stepped down as an ambassador for charity Refuge after 25 years, following an outcry when she clarified that friends of Stanley Johnson had described him breaking his wife’s nose as a “one-off”. As Refuge has strongly stated, domestic violence is never a one-off.

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