Question Time's Fiona Bruce has faced a social media backlash over her comments, with public figures accusing her of downplaying the gravity of domestic violence.
The BBC has defended Question Time’s Fiona Bruce against accusations that shewas described as a ‘wife-beater’ by journalist and panel member Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in Thursday’s episode of the show.alleged Johnson broke his former wife Charlotte’s noseIn the book, it is alleged that the PM’s parents had a ‘violent and unhappy’ relationship before they divorced in 1979.
‘Stanley Johnson has not commented publicly on that. Friends of his have said it did happen but it was a one-off.’ ‘This comment was unnecessary and irresponsible. We know at Women’s Aid that domestic abuse is rarely, if ever, a “one-off”, with the vast majority of abuse being a pattern of behaviour that includes different forms of abuse… Even if abuse is an isolated event, it would have still been domestic abuse, and this should never be minimised.
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