Lorraine Kelly vows to be 'unleashed' as she hosts Have I Got News For You

Lorraine Kelly admitted she was excited to instrumentality to the impermanent hosting relation connected Have I Got News For You astir 20 years since her past appearance

Lorraine Kelly is backmost successful the Have I Got News For You blistery spot for the archetypal clip successful astir 2 decades.

The fashionable Scottish presenter is tonight's impermanent hosts connected the BBC series, marking her archetypal hosting relation connected the amusement since 2005. It's rather a antithetic relation to her accustomed greeting ITV show, but it's 1 Lorraine is relishing.

Speaking up of her appearance, the 64-year-old said: "I'm truly looking guardant to hosting Have I Got News For You again, for the 2nd time. The archetypal clip I did it was astir 20 years agone backmost successful 2005, erstwhile Paul and Ian were young whippersnappers! It’s a accidental for maine to beryllium unleashed... I can’t wait!"

Team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton are joined this week by BBC Radio 5Live big Matt Chorley and comedian Maisie Adam to dissect the latest news. This week saw farmers protesting Labour’s inheritance taxation plans for farmland and Donald Trump appointing elder positions for his caller statesmanlike term.

Also connected the docket this week were Ian's comments astir the Archbishop of Canterbury turning up to a British Museum trustees’ meal lawsuit the time aft helium had resigned implicit a Church of England maltreatment scandal. Hislop, who was astatine the aforesaid event, described it this week arsenic ‘jaw-dropping’ that Justin Welby had decided to attend, reasoning cipher would accidental anything. Lorraine asked: "You ran into him recently, did you not Ian?” He replied: "Yeah, I did… convey you for bringing that up."

“How was that encounter?” Kelly enquired, to which Ian replied: "He appeared astatine nationalist lawsuit the time aft helium resigned successful disgrace and thought nary 1 would accidental anything… and helium came implicit and said hello. So I said something…" “You’ve got balls, you truly have,” replied Lorraine, earlier Ian said: "He conscionable seemed to maine wholly shameless."

Elsewhere connected the show, the sheet discussed this week’s husbandman protests astatine Westminster. It comes arsenic galore farmers headed to the superior to explicit their displeasure with Labour’s plans to present inheritance taxation connected immoderate farmland implicit a definite threshold. Jeremy Clarkson attended the protests to amusement his enactment to the farmers. Lorraine said: "This is the quality that the authorities has fallen retired with the farmers. What is it that Labour are really proposing though?"

Ian clarified: "The absorption of the protestation is inheritance tax. Farmers didn't wage it astatine each and present they're going to wage fractional of what everyone other pays. The limits they've acceptable connected them are truly beauteous high, truthful it's meant to halt affluent onshore owners buying tons of onshore successful bid to debar taxes. People like… present who comes to mind…? Jeremy Clarkson…who primitively bought his workplace successful bid to debar paying immoderate taxation connected it, and has present go the champion of the tiny farmer, who's astir apt not going to get deed by this, and is going to extremity up worse disconnected for tons of different reasons. It's a spot similar if determination was a large shepherdesses protest, and Marie Antoinette turned up…"

S68 of Have I Got News For You continues connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer contiguous from 9.00pm, impermanent hosted by Lorraine Kelly.

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