THE SNP’s deputy Westminster leader is set to appear on Question Time tonight as the show is broadcast from Exeter.
Mhairi Black, who was first elected as an SNP MP in 2015 at the age of 20, will be on the majority-female panel. She has made a name for herself at Westminster with her passionate, to-the-point speeches.
Black – who is also a regular columnist for The National – joins Labour and Tory politicians, alongside a journalist and celebrity chef.
Here’s who is on the programme alongside the MP tonight.
Who else is on the panel?
Helen Whately
The Conservatives will be represented by Whately, who is a social care minister in the UK Government.
A former deputy chair of the party, she has been an MP for Faversham and Mid Kent since the 2015 election.
Whately made headlines during the pandemic when she appeared to laugh during an interview with Piers Morgan focused on care home deaths.
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
Dr Allin-Khan is Labour's shadow minister for mental health, and is a qualified A&E doctor.
She has served as the MP for Tooting since 2016.
Last year, Dr Allin-Khan called out Nicola Sturgeon for saying she "detests" the Tories.
"It’s not wording that I would choose to use," she told Sky News.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
The celebrity chef hosts the long-running River Cottage cookery show.
He is regularly published by The Guardian and campaigns on topics like food waste, farming and obesity.
Dia Chakravarty
The Telegraph's @DiaChakravarty will be on the panel #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/KMMtId4xJP
— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) June 28, 2023
The Telegraph's Brexit editor joins the panel in a week where a new report revealed the shocking damage leaving the EU has inflicted on Scotland.
The new paper detailed consequences like an expected loss of £3 billion every year in public revenues, food price inflation at a 45-year high with Brexit responsible for an estimated one third of it and damaged trade - with 44% of businesses naming Brexit as the main cause of difficulties trading overseas.
Chakravarty is also the former political director of the Taxpayers' Alliance.
The organsiation presents itself as a non-partisan mass membership organisation despite its links to Vote Leave and the Conservative Party hierarchy.
