Last night’s Question Time panel saw David Dimbleby joined by John McDonnell, Dominic Raab, Ukip’s Louise Bours, Jermaine Jenas and Zoe Williams. As the group ran through a range of topics from the refugee crisis to the rise of Donald Trump, the last question was about the proposed ban of rugby in schools.
After 70 doctors and academics signed an open letter to ministers calling for the ‘high-impact collision sport’ to be banned, what did the panel think? Raab, the Minister for Human Rights, said that while safety issues do need to be taken into account, the positive effects of contact sports cannot be ignored:
‘These kind of sports have got a potential and a power to reach certain youngsters particularly from tough backgrounds that nothing else does.’
However, the Guardian‘s Zoe Williams didn’t appear to agree with Raab when it came to who plays rugby.
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