Perhaps it’s a good job Sir Robin Day is no longer with us. He would probably be horrified by the idea of Nigel Farage and Russell Brand taking over his show.
Still, it should lively. And, as a student of politics, Day would have been interested in the way mainstream Westminster politicians are increasingly being overshadowed by insurgent populists.
Farage, the Ukip leader, has built a political career by posing as the scourge of the establishment. But he’s positively conventional compared to Brand, the celebrity bohemian comic-cum-revolutionary. Personally, I’ve always been a bit mystified as to why his political views attract so much attention, but he’s got almost 9m followers on Twitter, so I’m probably missing something. We’ll see tonight.
The other three people on the panel are: Penny Mordaunt, the Conservative communities minister; Mary Creagh, the shadow international development secretary; and Camilla Cavendish, the Times columnist.
I’ll be covering Question Time in detail, bringing you reaction and analysis, and the best comment on Twitter, as well as summing up the news lines at the end.
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