If you'll come and answer the question in public about why, for some time, you have regularly hosted the Jew hating Calvin Robinson on your show, I'll gladly meet you to record your response. I'll even find somewhere to park your mobility scooter while we talk. This weekend sounds fine.

History is unlikely to remember you, Zia. And if it does, it will remember a political grifter, a man who seems to ignores the epidemic of violence against women and girls unless it is framed as an anti-immigrant rant. Your policies are Micky Mouse and you ran a Twitter poll on whether a former Defence Secretary should be tried for treason. Though you rarely appear to smile, you are a deeply unserious politician who hasn’t even become a Parliamentary candidate. Instead, you spend much of your time ranting on social media, threatening politicians who have actually stood for office, and spreading your bile.

So if, for example, your Member of Parliament has a tantrum and resigns to force a by-election in the middle of your family’s summer holiday, Reform believe you shouldn’t have the right to vote in that election. The people vs the establishment.

oh look a lesson from a man who never put a uniform on..just worked at bank. A man who is literally making policy and facts up. A man who cant even get his own party to pick him as an MP ( tell us why please?). When Reform stop taking £5m bungs and start being honest with people then people might take you seriously. No one is saying dont send prisoners back when you can but dont lie to the public you can do it with a magic wand. You guys are getting desperate. After all you recruited Suella!

Mr Yusuf, For the avoidance of doubt, I pleaded guilty in 1987 to an offence of gross indecency under laws that discriminated against homosexual men. The age of consent was then 21 for gay men & 16 for heterosexuals. Those discriminatory offences no longer exist. Also, the individual who was 17 was ‘wired for sound’ by Robert Maxwell’s paper. He said on the tape he was over 21. Unfortunately, there was a lacuna in the law in 1987 which provided heterosexuals with a defence. If heterosexuals believed those they had sexual relations with were of consensual age, & the jury believed this, then they could find the accused not guilty. No such defence pertained to homosexuals. If the younger person was under 21, the offence was committed. I did not realise this lacuna in the law existed until my lawyer, Sir David Napley, informed me. I then told him immediately I would plead guilty. Parliament has since recognised that these laws were unjust. Under the so-called “Alan Turing law”, people convicted of consensual homosexual offences under repealed legislation can have those convictions disregarded & pardoned as part of righting historic wrongs. Also, what I did was neither gross nor indecent. It was done in private and between consenting adults. I have never hidden any of this. What you are doing is attempting to weaponise a historic conviction under discriminatory laws to discredit me because you disagree with my views, & blind loyalty. That is your choice. My point remains unchanged: politicians should respect the police’s request not to speculate during a live murder investigation. Personal abuse is no answer to a principled argument. You are free to criticise me, & to answer a principled argument with personal abuse & character assassination - however unbecoming - but personal vilification is no substitute for civil debate. Ann Widdecombe believed in decency, free speech & the rule of law - which is why she stood by me and offered me practical, private & public support throughout my ordeals. I rather think she would have expected better.