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The police tried to keep back protesters on Thursday outside BBC offices in London before a TV appearance by the leader of the right-wing British National Party.

　But on Thursday, it was transformed into the forum for Britains most widely anticipated political showdown in decades, drawing 8.2 million viewers, more than three times the programs usual audience, on a par with the World Cup games played by Englands soccer team and more than the number of viewers for such weekly prime time hit shows as Strictly Come Dancing.
　
　 The occasion was the appearance on the program, the BBCs flagship politics show, of Nick Griffin, leader of the Hitler, whom Mr. Griffin invoked in the past as a model, may have made mistakes. Yes, he said, according to the biographer, Dominic Carman, Adolf went a bit too far. In June, the B.N.P. won two seats one for Mr. Griffin in Britains 72-seat contingent to the European Parliament, the first time it won election to anything higher than a local council.
　
　The party took more than a million votes, 6.2 percent of the total, and gained enough legitimacy,ed hardy shop, in the view of the BBCs executives, to have its voice heard alongside the countrys mainstream parties on Question Time.Mr. Griffin, 50, is a pinstripe-suit-and-tie-wearing Cambridge University law graduate whose mission is to put a mainstream gloss on a party that is the ideological descendant of the British Union of Fascists, the pro-Hitler blackshirts of the 1930s. Since seizing the leadership of the British National Party a decade ago, Mr. Griffin, flak jacket concealed beneath his dark suit, has set out from his home in a heavily guarded farmhouse in Wales to change its members image, as a profile in Fridays Daily Telegraph put it, from skinheads in bomber jackets to politically incorrect rebels. For the B.N.P. and other parties, the timing of the TV debate was especially significant. It came barely seven months before the expected date for Britains general election in May.
　
　Soaring unemployment and immigration levels, as well as the threat of terrorism, are likely to be major issues then, and ones that could offer new openings to fringe parties like the B.N.P.The BBCs decision split Prime Minister Gordon Browns cabinet, as it did much of Britain. If they are asked about their racist and bigoted views, Mr. Brown said, it will be a good opportunity to expose what they are about. But his Welsh secretary, Peter Hain, vehemently disagreed.
　
　The BBC should be ashamed of single-handedly doing a racist, fascist party the biggest favor in its grubby history, he said.As the TV taping approached on Thursday night, three hours before the debate was broadcast, a Walter Cronkite with his middle-of-the-road manner and his custom on Question Time of ensuring that all points of view get a fair hearing. The early reading by many of Britains major newspapers was that Mr. Griffin lost heavily on points. While he gained a mass audience for the first time, for a party that usually meets in cramped backstreet halls, he appeared shocked by the pounding he took from other panelists, by repeated booing in the studio and by infuriated interruptions from Mr. Dimbleby. On Friday, Mr. Griffin said he would make a formal complaint to the BBC about the venom and sheer unfairness of the discussion. That was a lynch mob, he said. 1