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Excruciating Question Time moment as minister Chris Philp asks if Congo is different country to Rwanda

Source: Question Time, BBC

Home Office minister Chris Philp has been ridiculed for asking whether Rwanda and Congo were different countries.

The policing minister’s blunder came on Thursday evening as he was being questioned on the government’s controversial deportation policy on BBC Question Time.

An audience member asked Mr Philp whether his family members from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) would be sent to Rwanda under the scheme had they been subject.

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