This audience member challenges Richard Burgon, claiming that he “lives in a Westminster bubble” and “doesn’t know the real world” #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/hlvZfucxAb

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) 6 July 2017

Terminally awkward Richard Burgon had a shocker on last night’s Question Time. First he was heckled by an audience member who accused Labour of putting the public sector ahead of job-creating employers. Then he was laughed into silence when he attempted to argue that Labour campaigned “passionately” in the EU referendum. Classic Burgon moments. Even Rebecca Long-Bailey would have done better…

.@RichardBurgon says that Labour campaigned passionately for the UK to remain in the EU, but accepts the result #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/13vZxSj8iq

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) 6 July 2017