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		</div><p><span style="color:#666666;"><span id="ext-gen146" style="font-size:large;">What?<br />
<span style="color:red;">16-year-old schoolgirl, Lexie Hill silences TV pundits. Shreds &#8216;In&#8217; campaigners&#8217; arguments &#8230;launched fierce attack on arguments for open European borders. Labor Party&#8217;s Diane Abbott slams &#8216;myths&#8217; in negative immigration arguments, but &#8216;top politicians&#8217; refuse to engage with claims made by schoolgirl</span></span></span></p>
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<div style="background-color:white;color:black;overflow:hidden;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;"><span id="ext-gen146" style="font-size:small;">The Brexit-backing 16-year-old who shredded the arguments put forward by &#8216;In&#8217; campaigners on BBC&#8217;s Question Time last night has been revealed as a grammar schoolgirl from Dorset.</span></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Lexie Hill left Environment Secretary Liz Truss and Labor&#8217;s Diane Abbott speechless with a powerful outburst on the current affairs program. </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Miss Hill, who is set to take her GCSEs this year, stopped the politicians in their tracks with a fierce attack on open European borders. </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:1.2em;"><span style="font-size:small;">Miss Hill, from Poole, Dorset, recently finished her mock GCSE exams at Parkstone Grammar School and wants to study Maths, Chemistry, Biology and Economics at A-level.</span></span></div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><b>Schoolgirl Lexie Hill, 16, left Environment Secretary Liz Truss and Labor&#8217;s Diane Abbott speechless with a powerful outburst on the current affairs program </b></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">The impassioned intervention came after Ms Truss, who has backed Prime Minister David Cameron&#8217;s recommendation Britain should stay in the EU, outlined the case defending the EU deal negotiated last week in Brussels. </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Miss Hill responded: &#8216;I&#8217;m sorry but I can&#8217;t accept Liz&#8217;s argument that they&#8217;re trying to reduce the pull factors because what is increasing the living wage to £9 in 2020 going to do?</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">&#8216;Eastern Europeans who have a minimum wage which is already one tenth of what ours is, surely that&#8217;s going to increase net migration?&#8217; </span></div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><b>Teenager Lexie Hill, 16, in the audience of last night&#8217;s BBC Question Time in Poole silenced the pro-EU politicians on the panel with a passionate case to leave the EU and institute tougher border controls</b></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">She said the new national living wage was 10 times higher than the equivalent in eastern Europe.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">And she endorsed the &#8216;Australian style points system&#8217; for immigration that has long been promoted by Ukip. </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Presenter David Dimbleby intervened to ask what her solution would be and how she would be voting at the referendum on June 23.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Miss Hill replied: &#8216;I would get out of the EU so we could have a fair points-based system so we don&#8217;t favour people from the EU over people (outside) of the EU.</span></div>
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<div class="imageCaption">Miss Hill said the Government&#8217;s new EU deal would do nothing to address the &#8216;pull factors&#8217; encouraging low paid migrants to move to Britain &#8211; highlighting the new £9 minimum wage being rolled out</div>
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<div class="imageCaption">Environment Secretary Liz Truss, pictured on the show, prompted the intervention with a defence of David Cameron&#8217;s Brussels negotiations</div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><b>In an effort to reply Ms Abbott, the shadow international development secretary, insisted the immigration debate was &#8216;riddled with myths&#8217; about people who come to Britain to &#8216;sit and live on benefits&#8217;</b></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">&#8216;We can have someone unskilled within Europe coming in without any questions, but a really talented doctor from India has to go through an intensive process.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">&#8216;It doesn&#8217;t make sense.&#8217;</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">The young woman&#8217;s speech was met with an enthusiastic round of applause from audience members, who turned around to discover who had been talking. </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Miss Hill&#8217;s father Robert Hill, a computer programmer, told The Telegraph that she is considering a career in politics in the long term but first wants to take on a &#8216;normal&#8217; path like medicine or finance.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">He said: &#8216;We are very proud of her, she&#8217;s always had very strong views on politics.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">&#8216;A lot of her views are similar to mine but she&#8217;s quite happy to stick up for herself and air her point of view. She likes Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson because they have similar views to her.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">&#8216;She has got a strong interest in politics but initially she&#8217;s thinking about more of a normal career &#8211; she&#8217;s thinking about medicine and finance, with the possibility of going into politics later.</span></div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><b>The audience member was dismissed by Labour&#8217;s Diane Abbott who insisted the immigration debate was &#8216;riddled with myths&#8217; </b></div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><b>Ms Abbot said: &#8216;My parents were immigrants so the audience will forgive me when I say that I worry about a narrative on immigration that only stresses the negative&#8217;</b></div>
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<div class="imageCaption"><b>BBC Question Time host David Dimbleby intervened to ask how the young woman would be voting in the referendum on June 23 </b></div>
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<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">&#8216;She watches Question Time every week and is currently reading Andrew Marr&#8217;s book about politics. She&#8217;s not a member of a political party.&#8217; </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">In an effort to reply Ms Abbott, the shadow international development secretary, insisted the immigration debate was &#8216;riddled with myths&#8217; about people who come to Britain to &#8216;sit and live on benefits&#8217;.</span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">She said: &#8216;My parents were immigrants so the audience will forgive me when I say that I worry about a narrative on immigration that only stresses the negative.&#8217; </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">Also on last night&#8217;s panel were columnist Julia Hartley-Brewer, Giles Fraser from the Guardian and Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. </span></div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="font-size:small;">To be a part of the Question Time audience, applicants must be 16 or over.</span></div>
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