Fiona Bruce’s hilarious five-word quip on BBC QT over Donald Trump’s peace plan. (Image: BBC)
made a hilarious quip about peace plan on BBC’s Question Time this evening (March 13) as she was joined on the panel by Economic Secretary Emma Reynolds, Conservative MP Luke Evans, Liberal Democrat MP Wendy Chamberlain, economist Faiza Shaheen, and satirist Konstantin Kisin. Fiona made her feelings known after posing the question of whether there is “a method to Trump’s ‘madness'”.
Ms Reynolds said: “President Trump has certainly introduced a new dynamic in this process.” Fiona quickly interrupted the Labour MP, saying, “You can say that again,” prompting ripples of laughter from the audience. Ms Reynolds gathered herself to continue her point: “Our Prime Minister has been working very closely with because we want to see a lasting peace in …the ball is firmly now in Putin’s court and we need to see how that develops.”
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“President Trump has certainly introduced a new dynamic in this process”Labour’s Emma Reynolds says the UK is working to “ensure Ukraine gets the support that it needs”, and that there should be “no decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine” in peace negotiations
— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime)
Fiona then attempted to bring the conversation back to the question at hand, stating: “Obviously, when started saying some of the things he did about and looked less of an ally to by calling Zelensky a dictator and calling for elections.
“Europe threw up its hands in horror at that. We’re now talking about peace but we weren’t talking about peace before. Do you think he has been right all along?”
Ms Reynolds rebutted: “I think there had been attempts to establish peace. I think that both President Trump, our Prime Minister, President Macron and other world leaders have shown real determination to try and ensure that we have a path to peace, and that is in everybody’s interest.”
It comes after said he agrees in principle to a 30-day ceasefire with , as Downing Street warned that if the war continued sanctions would “cripple” the Russian economy.
The Russian leader said “the idea itself is correct, and we certainly support it”, but at a press conference in Moscow he added that “there are issues that we need to discuss, and I think that we need to discuss it with our American colleagues and partners”.
Sir stressed the need for a lasting peace which would deter Mr Putin from attempting to conquer again. He said: “I profoundly believe that if we don’t secure a just peace and a lasting peace, then that insecurity, which we’ve already felt, will continue.
“And that means, here, higher prices, higher bills, the cost-of-living crisis going on for even longer – if you like, a choke hold on our future, which will be much, much harder for us to tackle.”
Mr Trump has signalled a threat of further sanctions on Moscow in a push for a deal, saying he could “do things financially” that would be “very bad for “.
‘s President said: “We hope that US pressure will be sufficient to compel to end the war.”