LABOUR politicians clashed last night on the topical debate show, Question Time, which came to Salisbury.

The BBC show, in which politicians and journalists answer questions from members of the public, aired from the City Hall last night.

Panelists included Tory MP Anna Soubry, shadow chancellor John McDonnell, SNP MP Joanna Cherry, Daily Mail writer Quentin Letts and Tony Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell, and the show was hosted by David Dimbleby.

The most notable point of the evening was a clash between John McDonnell and Alastair Campbell, after Campbell said Jeremy Corbyn had been "a disaster" for the Labour Party.

McDonnell retaliated, calling the comments "nauseating", and instead blamed Campbell and Tony Blair for creating an environment "where no one believed a word a politician said" and "setting [Labour] up to fail" by losing the party 5 million votes.

There were also claims Campbell and McDonnell came close to trading blows with each other after Dimbleby called time on the debate.

One on-looker told The Mirror both political heavyweights traded insults and it was feared the anger could turn to physical violence, but this was denied by a spokesman for McDonnell.

Anna Soubry also attacked Mr McDonnell, branding him a "very nasty piece of work" after he denied saying he was a Marxist.

She said: "There are colleagues of mine in the House of Commons, Labour MPs, who are at the point of being terrorised by McDonnell and his cronies.

"There are woman MPs who suffer day in and day out from misogynist, unpleasant, sexist abuse on Twitter, on Facebook, from people who are apparently within their own party.

"There is a Jewish Labour MP, a woman, who is living in a safe house because of the level of anti-Semitism she has to bear."

Her comments prompted anger on social media from Labour supporters who accused the BBC of being biased against Mr McDonnell by allowing the personal attacks.

McDonnell insisted that Labour leaders condemned all abuse of party MPs, and said Soubry's comments were "outrageous".

He added: "We are not accepting this smear campaign that is going on from the Tories, and others as well."

Quentin Letts also sparked an outcry on social media by comparing grammar schools to The X Factor.

He said: "“I don’t think we have had an elitist approach to education for a long time.

“And I can’t see what is wrong with selection, and OK that brings rejection, but we are a country of X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent and the idea of children advancing on merit.”

A member of the audience responded, saying: “The competition on the X Factor is for entertainment.

“Ninety per cent of that in the early stages is humiliation and I think selection of 11-year-olds to take the cream of the crop as the elites would have it, is a scandal and the debate should end right now."

The programme is available to watch on BBC iPlayer for one month.