Editing Question Time (TV programme) (section)

==Audience figures==

The highest audience figures to date were recorded when [[Nick Griffin]] of the BNP appeared in an [[Question Time British National Party controversy|episode]] on 22 October 2009; the audience reaching 8.3&nbsp;million viewers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/8-million-watch-bnp-on-question-time/|title=8 Million Watch BNP on Question Time|website=ATV Today}}</ref>

On 14 May 2009, ''Question Time'' discussed the [[MPs' expenses row]], with audience members heckling guest panellists [[Menzies Campbell]] and [[Margaret Beckett]], the Labour MP, who was booed by the audience for insisting that her expenses were her privilege. The TV audience reached 3.8&nbsp;million.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}

3.4&nbsp;million people watched in 2003 at the start of the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|war on Iraq]].