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BNP's Griffin accuses BBC 'lynch mob'

By Channel 4 News

Updated on 23 October 2009

British National Party leader Nick Griffin is to complain to the BBC about what he called a format change to yesterday's Question Time programme.

Nick Griffin arrives at a back entrance to BBC television studios (credit: Getty images)

More than eight  million people watched BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on the BBC's Question Time last night. 

It was three times the usual audience for the programme, which was recorded despite protests by hundreds of anti-fascist demonstrators outside BBC Television Centre in west London.


Under questioning from the studio audience, Mr Griffin denied he was a Nazi and was heckled when he spoke about a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

Speaking in the last hour, Mr Griffin described last night's Question Time as a "lynch mob" and said he would be complaining to be the BBC about what he claimed was a change to the normal format of the programme.

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