Far-right chief: BBC mounted ‘lynch mob’

BRITISH far-right leader Nick Griffin accused the BBC yesterday of mounting a “lynch mob” against him in a charged appearance on a TV political panel show, and called for it to be re-recorded.

Griffin, accused of a weak performance on BBC’s Question Time, suggested audience members who fired angry questions at him at the show’s recording in London came from a city which had been “ethnically cleansed” of white people.

Some eight million people watched the British National Party (BNP) leader’s controversial Question Time turn when it was screened on Thursday night, the BBC said, nearly treble its normal viewing figures.