BNP leader laps up the publicity but wilts in Question Time heat
There was only one major political topic this week and inevitably Question Time was almost exclusively about the views of Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party and his controversial appearance on the self-same programme.
Torcuil Crichton, Chief UK Political Correspondent
So the viewing public was treated to Mr Griffin squirming under direct and angry questions from a BBC audience, evading his past, refuting that he had denied the Holocaust.
Skin colour, he said, was irrelevant when it came to describing the indigenous people of Britain.
