BBC's Laura Kuenssberg issues huge announcement as show pulled from schedule

interrupted her self-titled programme to share an announcement with viewers. During today's instalment of Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the presenter was joined by a number of guests to discuss the latest political updates. The 48-year-old spoke to Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, just one day after emergency proposals to save British Steel's Scunthorpe blast furnaces .

She also sat down with Shadow Business and Trade Secretary Andrew Griffith as well as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Before speaking to other panel members, Kuenssberg announced that her show would not be airing next week. She said: "We will be talking to the leader of the Greens and the Lib Dems on our next programme on the 27th April because we're having a little breather over the Easter weekend."

During the programme, , 61, during a heated discussion about Chinese firm Jingye. The company maintains that it is operating at a loss under British Steel, arguing that keeping the plant operational would not be in their best interest.

As Farage accused Jingye of falsifying their figures to further their own agenda, the host questioned him on what evidence he had to support such a claim.

Farage retorted: "You can call it intuition if you like, but why do you think that yesterday morning, trade unions acted to stop China, because they feared industrial sabotage."

Kuenssberg countered: "But hang on, you're making an accusation of sabotage based on your own intuition, that's a serious accusation to a private company."

The politician quickly fired back: "It's not a private company! I'm sorry, there is no such thing as any private company in China, that is not how it works."

When Kuenssberg pressed him again for evidence, Farage responded: "I am 100% sure that they bought British Steel to close British Steel.

"If you get your wish and see full nationalisation and the cost rise from £1bn to two, to three, to £4bn, would there be any upper limit at which point you would think 'this wasn't a good idea?'"

He added: "There is no reason why we can't manufacture our own steel, there's no reason why we can't produce aluminium or do refining, there's no reason why we can't do any of these things," to which Laura retorted: "That's not answering my question."