Question Time — Season 46

Jan 202459m

With a general election almost certain this year, Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from Oxford, with an audience of undecided voters. On the panel are: health minister Andrea Leadsom MP; shadow secretary for international development Lisa Nandy MP; chairman of ASDA Lord Rose; and Professor Anand Menon, director of the political research institute, UK in a Changing Europe.

Jan 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents live debate with politicians, commentators and the public, from Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. On the panel, from the government, Bim Afolami MP, who is a Treasury minister; Labour’s shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry MP; the political editor and presenter at Times Radio, Kate McCann; and the barrister and author Hashi Mohamed.

Jan 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents live debate with politicians, commentators and the public, from Gillingham in Kent. On the panel, from the government, Alex Burghart MP, who is a cabinet office minister; Labour’s shadow paymaster general, Jonathan Ashworth MP; the director of the foreign affairs think-tank, Chatham House, Bronwen Maddox; columnist and former Labour party adviser Sonia Sodha; and Konstantin Kisin, who is an author and satirist.

Feb 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of discussion with politicians, commentators and members of the public, from Glasgow. On the panel, from the Scottish National Party, Scotland’s former finance secretary, Kate Forbes MSP; from the UK Government, Scotland minister, Lord Offord; Ian Murray MP, who is Labour’s shadow secretary of state for Scotland; Patrick Harvie MSP, from the Scottish Greens, who is also a minister in the Scottish government; and the editor of The Spectator magazine, Fraser Nelson.

Feb 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Nottingham. On the panel are: new Conservative deputy chairman James Daly MP; Wes Streeting MP, Labour’s shadow health secretary; deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats Daisy Cooper MP; comedy actor and TV presenter Paddy McGuinness; and writer and broadcaster Inaya Folarin Iman.

Feb 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Lancaster. On the panel are: minister for energy security and net zero Graham Stuart MP; shadow leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell MP; Drew Hendry MP, who speaks for the Scottish National Party on the economy; industrialist Juergen Maier; and columnist Jill Kirby.

Feb 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate with politicians, commentators and voters, from Maidenhead in Berkshire. On the panel, from the government, minister for victims and safeguarding, Laura Farris MP; Labour’s Stella Creasy MP; the columnist and broadcaster Camilla Tominey, and Cambridge University’s youngest ever black professor, Jason Arday.

Feb 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate with politicians and members of the public, from Croydon in south London. On the panel, Conservative peer Sayeeda Warsi; from Labour, shadow foreign secretary David Lammy MP; the Green Party’s Caroline Lucas MP; and Tim Stanley, a historian, author and columnist.

Mar 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of current affairs discussion with politicians and members of the public, in Cardiff. On the panel, from the government, the secretary of state for Wales, David TC Davies MP; Labour’s Cabinet Office shadow Nick Thomas-Symonds MP; Plaid Cymru’s leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth MS; the head of economics and politics at Bloomberg, Stephanie Flanders; and Guto Harri, who was an adviser to former prime minister Boris Johnson.

Mar 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Liverpool. On the panel, from the government, Lee Rowley MP, minister in the Department for Levelling-Up, Housing and Communities; Jonathan Reynolds MP, who is Labour’s shadow Business and Trade Secretary; the Scottish National Party’s Westminster leader, Stephen Flynn MP; the broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika, who was an adviser to the Labour Party; and the commentator Melanie Phillips.

Mar 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate with politicians and members of the public from Middlesbrough. On the panel, the deputy chair of the Conservative Party, Rachel Maclean MP, Labour’s shadow industry and decarbonisation minister, Sarah Jones MP, the environment spokesperson and former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron MP, the historical novelist Philippa Gregory and the columnist Rod Liddle.

Apr 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from the spa town of Buxton, Derbyshire. On the panel: cabinet minister David TC Davies MP; Labour’s shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson MP; the co-leader of the Green Party Carla Denyer, and Reform UK leader Richard Tice.

Apr 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate, with politicians and members of the public, from Tottenham in north London. On the panel are policing, crime and fire minister Chris Philp MP, Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting MP, Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Munira Wilson MP, chair of NHS Confederation Victor Adebowale, and Charles Moore, columnist and former editor of the Daily Telegraph.

May 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate, with politicians and members of the public, in the new town of Northstowe, near Cambridge. On the panel: treasury minister Bim Afolami MP; Labour’s shadow secretary of state for science Peter Kyle MP; the Scottish National Party’s Kirsty Blackman MP; the Nobel prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz; and the former ministerial adviser Anita Boateng.

May 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate, with politicians, commentators and members of the public, in Stoke-on-Trent. On the panel: treasury minister Nigel Huddleston MP; Labour’s shadow secretary for international development Lisa Nandy MP; author and politics and economics commentator Grace Blakeley; and chief executive of the PureGym chain Humphrey Cobbold.

May 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of current affairs debate with politicians and members of the public from Aberdeen. On the panel, the Scottish National Party’s Westminster leader, Stephen Flynn MP, the deputy leader of the Conservatives in Scotland, Meghan Gallacher MSP, the leader of Scottish Labour, Anas Sarwar MSP, the former first minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, and writer and broadcaster Iain Dale.

May 202459m

As a General Election is called for early July, Fiona Bruce presents an hour of discussion and debate from Coventry in the West Midlands. On the panel are government minister Mark Spencer MP, from Labour shadow Education secretary Bridget Phillipson MP, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Daisy Cooper MP, and Conservative commentator Tim Montgomerie.

May 202459m

With five weeks until the general election, Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate with politicians and members of the public from Epsom in Surrey. On the panel is schools minister Damian Hinds from the Conservatives, Wes Streeting, who is Labour’s shadow health secretary, Reform UK’s honorary president and founder Nigel Farage, Rose Hudson-Wilkin, who is the bishop of Dover, and the TV presenter and former newspaper editor Piers Morgan.

Jun 202459m

With a month until polling day, Fiona Bruce and an audience of voters in Chester put questions to politicians seeking your vote. On the panel, from the Conservatives, the transport secretary Mark Harper; Labour’s justice spokesperson, Shabana Mahmood; the co-leader of the Green Party, Carla Denyer; and Plaid Cymru’s Westminster leader, Liz Saville-Roberts.

Jun 202459m

With just three weeks until the general election, Fiona Bruce presents an hour of political debate with politicians and voters from Edinburgh. On the panel, the Scottish National Party’s deputy first minister Kate Forbes MSP, the leader of the Conservatives in Scotland, Douglas Ross MSP, the leader of Scottish Labour, Anas Sarwar MSP, the chief strategist behind the 2014 campaign for Scottish independence, Stephen Noon and the former UK Government adviser, Iain Anderson.

Jun 20241h 59m

With just two weeks until the general election, Fiona Bruce presents a special two-hour edition of Question Time. The four leaders from the country’s biggest political parties will each face 30 minutes of questions from an audience of voters in York. That’s Rishi Sunak, prime minister and Conservative leader, Sir Keir Starmer, who leads Labour, the leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Ed Davey and the Scottish National Party leader John Swinney MSP.

Jun 202429m

Bethan Rhys Roberts is joined by a live studio audience with questions for Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth as part of the Question Time Leaders’ series.

Jun 202459m

With the polls soon to be open in the general election, Fiona Bruce hosts an hour of debate with politicians and voters, from Birmingham. On the panel, from the Conservatives, the deputy foreign secretary, Andrew Mitchell, Labour’s Home Office spokesperson, Yvette Cooper, the Westminster leader of the Scottish National Party, Stephen Flynn, and Layla Moran, who speaks for the Liberal Democrats on science, technology and foreign affairs.

Jun 202459m

Fiona Bruce presents a special edition of Question Time with the co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, and the leader of Reform UK. They will each face thirty minutes of questions from an audience of voters in Birmingham. That’s Adrian Ramsay, co-leader of the Greens, followed by Nigel Farage, of Reform UK.

Jul 202459m

The country has spoken, and we have a new Labour government and prime minister. Fiona Bruce presents a special debate of the new political picture, with politicians and voters, in London. On the panel, the new Environment secretary Steve Reed MP; the Conservative Peer Lord Finkelstein; the deputy leader of Liberal Democrats, Daisy Cooper MP; Ben Habib, who is the deputy leader of Reform UK; and the broadcaster and journalist Andrew Marr.

Jul 202444m

As the new Labour government swings into action, Fiona Bruce presents live debate from Colchester in Essex. On the panel: from the government, Peter Kyle MP, secretary of state for Science and Technology; from the Conservatives, George Freeman MP; Sian Berry MP, from the Green Party of England and Wales, who used to lead her party; and Camilla Cavendish, former director of policy at Downing Street.