{"id":57083,"date":"2026-06-05T21:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/57083\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:25:22","slug":"reforms-makerfield-candidate-roasted-by-audience-member-during-question-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/57083\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform&#8217;s Makerfield candidate roasted by audience member during Question Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reform\u2019s candidate in the Makerfield by-election Robert Kenyon was slammed by an audience member at during a Question Time appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s edition of the BBC programme was a special about the Makerfield by-election, with each candidate from the five biggest parties in the UK appearing on the show. <\/p>\n<p>This included self-employed plumber Kenyon. who has since found himself at the centre of controversy over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelondoneconomic.com\/politics\/carol-vorderman-robert-kenyon-reform-makerfield-406630\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">sexist remarks he had made on social media<\/a> in the past. <\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelondoneconomic.com\/politics\/peston-eviscerates-robert-jenrick-over-badenoch-attack-ad-travesty-406820\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peston eviscerates Robert Jenrick over Badenoch attack ad \u2018travesty\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long too long before Kenyon\u2019s disgusting posts were brought up by an audience member, who made their feelings towards him known. <\/p>\n<p>One audience member in particular put things perfectly, when she told Kenyon she would \u201crather have a career politician than a plumber who\u2019s sexist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comment drew huge applause from the rest of the audience. <\/p>\n<p>Kenyon then bumbled his way through an answer, including adding that he was \u201callegedly\u201d a sexist, even though this was something he admitted he was in a social media post. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 WATCH: An audience member tells Reform candidate Rob Kenyon that she&#8217;d &#8220;rather have a career politician than a plumber who&#8217;s a sexist&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I won&#8217;t accept that label\u2026 I was brought up by women. I have nothing but respect for women&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/BBCQT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#BBCQT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NQ9kizgQm2\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/NQ9kizgQm2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PolitlcsUK\/status\/2062629823218848145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reform Candidate for Makerfield by-election Robert Kenyon got cooked and laughed at Question Time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d rather have a career politician than a plumber who is a sexist&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You described yourself as a sexist&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He replied, &#8220;allegedly.&#8221; It&#8217;s all a joke to him.<\/p>\n<p>He also refused to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tUKhmATNCA\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/tUKhmATNCA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/I_amMukhtar\/status\/2062632141163258122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Question Time appearance was the latest disastrous media performance from Kenyon, coming the day after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelondoneconomic.com\/politics\/makerfield-reform-candidate-robert-kenyon-chris-mason-bbc-interview-406731\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">humbled by the BBC\u2019s Chris Mason<\/a> over his sexist views. <\/p>\n<p>The interview was so disastrous some labelled it the \u2018worst political interview in history.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reform\u2019s candidate in the Makerfield by-election Robert Kenyon was slammed by an audience member at during a Question&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[4645,19949,9578,27907,5,6],"class_list":["post-57083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-headline","tag-makerfield-by-election","tag-question-time","tag-robert-kenyon","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116699615885224693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}