A viral clip of Ian Hislop shutting down Priti Patel’s public endorsement of the death penalty has resurfaced following backlash to the new Conservative party deputy chair’s comments on the same issue. A clip from BBC’s Question Time, recorded in 2011, depicts Private Eye editor and Have I Got News For You host Ian Hislop dissecting fellow guest Ms Patel’s argument in favour of the death penalty. Ms Patel later claimed that she had never been an “active supporter” of capital punishment, remarking that the previous clips had been taken “out of context”. In an interview with The Spectator, Mr Anderson was asked whether he backs the death penalty. In the UK, the death penalty for murder was outlawed permanently in 1969 following its suspension in 1965.
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