Have I Got News For You

Lorraine Kelly hosts, and on the panel is comedian Maisie Adam and BBC Radio 5 Live presenter and journalist Matt Chorley.

TV presenter Lorraine Kelly returns to Have I Got News For You. It is her fourth appearance on the show overall and her second time in the guest host's chair. Her last appearance was back in 2005, as a guest host in Series 30. Upon being announced, she said: "I'm really looking forward to hosting Have I Got News For You again, for the second time. The first time I did it was nearly 20 years ago back in 2005, when Paul and Ian were young whippersnappers! It's a chance for me to be unleashed... I can't wait!"

This episode was broadcast in the week that has seen farmers protesting Labour's inheritance tax plans for farmland and Donald Trump appointing senior positions for his new presidential term.

But also on the agenda this week were team captain Ian Hislop's comments about the Archbishop of Canterbury turning up to a British Museum trustees' dinner event the day after he had resigned over a Church of England abuse scandal. Hislop, who was at the same event, described it this week as 'jaw-dropping' that Justin Welby had decided to attend, thinking nobody would say anything.

"You ran into him recently, did you not Ian?" host Lorraine Kelly asked.

"Yeah, I did... thank you for bringing that up," Hislop replied.

"How was that encounter?" Kelly enquired.

"He appeared at public event the day after he resigned in disgrace and thought no one would say anything... and he came over and said hello. So I said something..." Hislop said.

"You've got balls, you really have," replied Kelly.

"He just seemed to me entirely shameless..." Hislop responded.

"Years ago on this programme I used to accuse Ian of being a bit snobby... but now I withdraw that when I realise he meets the Archbishop of Canterbury at a drinks do at the British Museum..." Paul Merton quipped.

"Do you think so Paul, do you think he'll be missed at all?" Kelly asked.

"Oh we'll always get somebody else.... Oh, the Archbishop of Canterbury, sorry!" Merton joked.

The panel also discussed this week's farmer protests at Westminster, with many farmers travelling to the capital to express their displeasure with Labour's plans to introduce inheritance tax on some farmland over a certain threshold. Jeremy Clarkson attended the protests to show his support to the farmers.

"This is the news that the government has fallen out with the farmers. What is it that Labour are actually proposing though?" asked Kelly.

"The focus of the protest is inheritance tax. Farmers didn't pay it at all and now they're going to pay half of what everyone else pays," Hislop clarified. "The limits they've set on them are really pretty high, so it's meant to stop wealthy land owners buying lots of land in order to avoid taxes. People like... now who comes to mind...? Jeremy Clarkson...." he joked. "...who originally bought his farm in order to avoid paying any tax on it, and has now become the champion of the small farmer, who's probably not going to get hit by this, and is going to end up worse off for lots of other reasons. It's a bit like if there was a big shepherdesses protest, and Marie Antoinette turned up..."

"What sort of drugs are you on?! And share them out!" laughed Merton.