Keir Murray
BBC News

Well, that was a lively discussion in Canterbury! We hope you enjoyed the programme and the live text commentary here on the BBC website. Have a tremendous festive break. We'll be in Watford on 8 January for the first programme of 2015. Thank you very much indeed for joining us. Good night.

David Dimblebly draws the programme to a close.

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Mary Creagh claims that Michael Gove presided over unqualified teachers in the classroom. She wants to see "world-class" schools in every neighbourhood.

Mark, Crewe: Brand is spot on, Farage wants to go back to past. He wants a tiered education system for white elites. Why can't excellent education be for everybody?

Anonymous: We abolished most of our best schools. Germany has kept most of its grammar and secondary technical schools. I wonder which country is doing best?

Trevor, Leighton Buzzard: "Farage actually looks very comfortable in the situation... Brand obviously put there to go after him but has failed."

JC, Altrincham: "Camilla Cavendish, top woman, speaks a lot of sense!"

Lynn, Barry: "More people are waiting to see their GP because of uncontrolled immigration."

"I think the answer to this question is a very big yes. Social mobility has declined. It's like we've gone back 50 years... One of the biggest mistakes we've made is the destruction of grammar schools."

Russell Brand says education, health and a living wage are rights, "not something we should be squabbling over".

"Would education and social mobility improve if we returned to a system that included grammar schools - as we still have in Kent?" Penelope Kimber, recently retired communications director

Penny Mordaunt's answer does not impress the man in the audience. "I'm a civil servant and I haven't had a pay rise," comes his retort.

Steve, Rugby: Scrap the NHS, not fit for purpose, pay as you use is only answer. The NHS costs were based on a population of 25 million, doesn't work with 62 million.

Brian, Dawlish: There's too many regional variants in the UK NHS to ever be consistent. Regional autonomy for the NHS will secure a more strategic resource that should be sustainable.

You can rewatch Russell Brand and Nigel Farage discuss immigration here at the @BBCNews Youtube channel here, external #bbcqt

"We've got an ageing population, the demand for health services is going to go up hugely. I've looked at what happens in France and the Netherlands. They tend to use more insurance-based systems. We as a party have decided that the NHS being free at the point of care is absolutely vital and the involvement of the private sector that we saw under Labour and continuing now has not thus far been a great success."

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MT @Blogolution Bevan would be turning in his grave #bbcqt

"The variability of care is a real problem for us," adds Camilla Cavendish, associate editor of The Times.

"We need to be very careful that we don't shut down small attempts to make things better."

Jim, Lanarkshire: There is a problem in all NHS trusts, which will only be addressed when the managers are sacked and the matrons are brought back.

"This word 'privatisation' is so misleading. It means 'selling off' to the private sector. If we did that it could lead to the end of the NHS as we know it, and the most precious thing about the NHS is that it is free at the point that we need it and we have to keep it that way. But that's not happening, nobody's talking about selling it off. What is happening is that some of these local commissioning groups, which are run by doctors, are giving contracts to private groups and also to charities. That is an experiment, nobody quite knows where it is going to go."

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British citizenship's been granted to those with "poor immigration histories."

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"I think we need to repeal the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Health Bill and we have made that a promise in our election campaign. We do not want to see it (the NHS) opened up.

"The private sector was used by Labour in government to tackle certain problems - health waiting lists where people were waiting 18 months for cataract operations and going blind, hip replacements where people were living in pain and heart operations where people were dying before they were getting their treatment."