I would be suspicious of that or at least wondering what exactly they're referring to because the audiences for these debates were selected by Comres:
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Andrew Hawkins, the founder of polling company ComRes which selected the audience for the seven-way debate earlier this week, said the firm uses rigorous selection methods to weed out fakes.
But he added that "it would be foolish to say that it could never happen", even given the strictest tests. He added that ComRes does not rely on "open recruiting" where a simple online form is used.
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But the BBC has confirmed that it does use an open-ended online form, the riskiest kind of recruitment if you want to avoid bias, experts warned.
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I think the latter must be the normal Question Time audiences rather than the ones selected for the debate.
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Saw an interesting theory that said Brexit has helped Labour because it shifts the debate away from the deficit, it gives a credible avenue out of discussions about immigration and it's killed UKIP. This could have been a winnable election under another leader (of course May wouldn't have called one in such circumstances).