Question Time: Audience member berates Lucy Powell

       A BBC Question Time audience member hit out at Labour's "track record" of U-turns during tonight's show.

       The moment came as the show in Lancashire debated whether Labour's biggest challenge to winning the next election is the party itself.

       The audience member highlighted how Sir Keir Starmer recently ditched Labour's flagship economic policy to spend ￡28 billion a year on green investment in his biggest U-turn to date.

       Directing her comment at Labour MP Lucy Powell who was appearing on the panel, the woman said: "I can't believe you can sit there and say we can trust the management and regulation of things going on within the Labour Party when only recently Keir Starmer has U-turned again on green spending.

       "And it's not the first time there is a track record now of U-turns within the Labour Party."

       The woman said Labour had a 'track record' of U-turns (Image: BBC)

       Labour MP Lucy Powell (Image: BBC)

       Elsewhere during the debate, another audience member criticised Sir Keir for waiting for 48 hours before ditching Labour's Rochdale by-election candidate over an antisemitism row.

       Labour withdrew support from Azhar Ali on Monday night after it emerged he claimed Israel allowed Hamas's October 7 attack to happen as a pretext to invade Gaza.

       Mr Ali has since apologised for the comments recorded at a meeting of the Lancashire Labour Party.

       The man said: "How can you say Keir Starmer has taken decisive action on the matter when he's waited for media pressure?

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       Another audience member suggested Sir Keir was slow to act in the row over the Rochdale by-election candidate (Image: BBC)

       "And are we really supposed to believe that he's going to take decisive action in other areas when at the minute all he seems to want to say is vote for us because we're not the Tories?"

       Earlier, Ms Powell insisted Sir Keir had been successful in tackling antisemitism within Labour.

       She said: "We are an absolute world away from the stain on our reputation and from frankly the awful culture and environment that did pervade in the Labour Party."

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