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Season 40 • Episode 31 • 18/10/2018
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Question Time Season 40, Episode 31: 18/10/2018
David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Guildford. On the panel are: James Cleverly MP, deputy chairman of the Conservative Party; Sir Keir Starmer MP, shadow Brexit secretary; Nish Kumar, comedian, television presenter and satirist; Michael Dobbs, former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, Tory peer and author of House of Cards; and Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor of The Economist. Watch Question Time Season 40, Episode 31 18/10/2018 in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of Question Time Season 40, Episode 31 and share your thoughts in the comments below!
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39 episodes11/01/2018
David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Islington in north London. On the panel are the Conservative housing minister Dominic Raab MP, Labour's shadow secretary for women and equalities Dawn Butler MP, the businesswoman Gina Miller, comedian Nish Kumar and broadcaster Piers Morgan.
60 min
18/01/2018
David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Hereford. On the panel, the Conservative culture minister, Margot James MP, the mayor of Greater Manchester and former Labour MP, Andy Burnham, chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Howard Davies, arts advisor and former deputy mayor of London for culture, Munira Mirza, and the Oscar-winning screenwriter, Dustin Lance Black.
60 min
25/01/2018
David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Dumfries, with a panel featuring Conservative peer and former secretary of state for Scotland Michael Forsyth, the Labour MP, and close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, Chris Williamson, the SNP's minister for culture Fiona Hyslop MSP, co-convenor of the Scottish Greens Maggie Chapman and Daily Mail journalist and commentator Peter Oborne.
60 min
01/02/2018
David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Grantham, with a panel of politicians and other guests facing topical questions from the audience. On the panel are Conservative MP and former education secretary Justine Greening, Labour MP John Mann, who voted for Brexit and once described Jeremy Corbyn as 'not remotely up to the job' of leading the Labour Party into power, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson MP, head of the New Economics Forum and former advisor to Ed Miliband Miatta Fahnbulleh, and the Daily Telegraph writer and columnist Tim Stanley.
60 min
08/02/2018
David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Darlington. On the panel are Conservative energy minister Claire Perry MP, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry MP, businessman and co-chair of the pressure group Leave Means Leave Richard Tice, political columnist for the Times Rachel Sylvester, and broadcaster and author Terry Christian.
60 min
15/02/2018
David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Yeovil. On the panel are the Conservatve's Theresa Villiers MP, former secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Labour's David Lammy MP, author of the Lammy Review into the treatment and outcomes of BAME offenders in the justice system, Richard Walker, managing director, Iceland Foods, Faiza Shaheen, director of CLASS (Centre for Labour and Social Studies) and Camilla Cavendish, former head of policy for David Cameron.
60 min
22/02/2018
David Dimbleby chairs an hour of topical debate from JCB's world headquarters near Uttoxeter in Staffordshire. On the panel: Conservative Party chairman Brandon Lewis, Labour peer and former deputy prime minister John Prescott, the chief executive of Siemens UK, Juergen Maier, the political editor of the Sunday Express, Camilla Tominey and left-wing writer and activist Ash Sarkar, a senior editor for the news and comment site Novara Media.
60 min
01/03/2018
David Dimbleby chairs topical debate from Blackpool. Panellists include Ken Clarke MP, former chancellor of the exchequer and minister under three successive Conservative prime ministers and currently the father of the House of Commons, Owen Smith MP, shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland who challenged Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership of the Labour Party, Nigel Farage MEP, former leader of UKIP, Michelle Dewberry, businesswoman and former winner of the BBC's The Apprentice, and Radzi Chanyanganya, presenter of Blue Peter, the Olympics and Cannonball.
60 min
08/03/2018
David Dimbleby chairs debate from Westminster. On the panel are secretary of state for international trade Liam Fox, shadow minister for labour Laura Pidcock, restaurateur, writer and Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith, Roma Agrawal, structural engineer who worked on the Shard and diversity campaigner for women in engineering, and spoken word artist and social campaigner George the Poet.
60 min
15/03/2018
David Dimbleby chairs topical debate from Dover. Panellists include secretary of state for transport Chris Grayling, shadow secretary of state for Brexit Keir Starmer, Irish MEP and vice president of the European Parliament Mairead McGuinness, presenter at RT Afshin Rattansi and hollywood actor and SNP supporter Brian Cox.
60 min
22/03/2018
David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Leeds. On the panel are James Cleverly, deputy chair of the Conservative Party who campaigned for Britain to leave the EU, shadow attorney general and member of the House of Lords, Shami Chakrabarti, the SNP shadow spokesman for defence, Stewart McDonald, journalist and transgender activist, Paris Lees and the Mail on Sunday columnist, Peter Hitchens.
60 min
12/04/2018
David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Liverpool. On the panel are minister of state for transport and minister for London, former head of David Cameron's policy unit and Conservative MP for Orpington Jo Johnson, Labour MP and shadow secretary of state for international trade Barry Gardiner, investment fund manager and author Nicola Horlick, writer and broadcaster Jonathan Freedland and Kate Andrews from the Institute of Economic Affairs.
60 min
19/04/2018
David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Chesterfield. On the panel are chief secretary to the treasury and former justice secretary Liz Truss MP, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry MP, Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable MP, Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik and LBC presenter Iain Dale.
60 min
26/04/2018
David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Bury St Edmunds. Panellists include Matt Hancock MP, secretary of state for culture, media and sport, Conservative, Diane Abbott MP, shadow home secretary, Labour, Caroline Lucas MP, co-leader of Green Party, Jen Robinson, human rights lawyer representing Julian Assange, and Simon Evans, comedian and BBC Radio 4 presenter.
60 min
03/05/2018
David Dimbleby presents topical debate from St Albans. On the panel are the minister for the Cabinet Office David Lidington MP, shadow business minister and Labour MP Chi Onwurah, comedian and broadcaster Matt Forde, political editor of the Sunday Express Camilla Tominey and personal finance guru, broadcaster and founder of "MoneySavingExpert" Martin Lewis.
60 min
10/05/2018
David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Kettering. Panellists include work and pensions secretary and former TV presenter Esther McVey, Labour MP and pro-EU campaigner Chuka Umunna, CEO of electric car racing championship Formula E and a former MEP for the Spanish conservative party Alejandro Agag, campaign manager at the Tax Payers' Alliance and a member of the Vote Leave campaign Chloe Westley, and BAFTA and MOBO-winning rapper and writer Akala.
60 min
17/05/2018
David Dimbleby presents topical debate from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. On the panel are housing minister Dominic Raab, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, former Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, Aditya Chakrabortty of The Guardian, and Camilla Cavendish, former head of policy for David Cameron.
60 min
24/05/2018
David Dimbleby presents an hour of topical debate from Worthing. On the panel - Conservative MP, former business minister and campaigner for a referendum on the Brexit deal, Anna Soubry MP; shadow minister at the Treasury and former MEP, Anneliese Dodds MP; Daily Mail and Sunday Times columnist and former editor of the Sunday Telegraph, Dominic Lawson; professor of American literature, Sarah Churchwell; and the novelist and author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver.
60 min
31/05/2018
David Dimbleby chairs an hour of topical debate from Perth. On the panel are the parliamentary private secretary to Philip Hammond and Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng, former Europe minister and Labour MP Caroline Flint, Scottish National Party MSP Kate Forbes, the author of Poverty Safari - which is nominated for the Orwell Prize 2018 - Darren 'Loki' McGarvey, and the founder and chairman of Stagecoach Brian Souter.
60 min
07/06/2018
David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Reading. On the panel are secretary of state for education Damian Hinds MP, shadow attorney general Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, entrepreneur and co-founder of Innocent Drinks Richard Reed, Daily Mirror's deputy editor-in-chief Alison Phillips and television presenter and author Richard Madeley.
60 min
14/06/2018
David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Caernarfon with a panel of politicians and other guests facing topical questions from the audience.
60 min
21/06/2018
David Dimbleby presents an hour of topical debate from Birmingham. On the panel are Theresa May's former deputy Damian Green MP, shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth MP, Wetherspoon founder and chairman Tim Martin, journalist and author Afua Hirsch and Spiked columnist Ella Whelan.
60 min
28/06/2018
David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Exeter with a panel of politicians and other guests facing topical questions from the audience. On the panel are minister for Brexit Suella Braverman, shadow treasury minister Clive Lewis, who left the shadow cabinet to vote against Brexit, former adviser to William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith and CEO of sportswear firm Head Johan Eliasch, deputy editor of the New Statesman Helen Lewis and journalist, broadcaster and regular panellist on ITV's Loose Women Janet Street-Porter.
60 min
05/07/2018
David Dimbleby chairs the debate from King's Lynn with a panel of politicians and other guests facing topical questions from the audience. On the panel are former secretary of state for international development Priti Patel MP, Lisa Nandy MP, leader of the SNP at Westminster Ian Blackford MP, CEO of Mansfield Town Football Club Carolyn Radford and columnist for The Times and Spectator Matthew Paris.
60 min
12/07/2018
David Dimbleby presents an hour of topical debate from Dartford in Kent. On the panel are minister of state for energy and clean growth Claire Perry MP, who attends Cabinet and was at the Chequers meeting on Friday 6 July; Labour's shadow secretary of state for international trade Barry Gardiner MP; Gina Miller, fund manager and campaigner who took the government to the Supreme Court over Brexit; Charles Moore, former editor of the Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, now a columnist for both; and the broadcaster, journalist and friend of Donald Trump, Piers Morgan.
60 min
13/09/2018
David Dimbleby presents an hour of topical debate from Banbury. On the panel - prisons minister Rory Stewart MP, former shadow chancellor of the exchequer and minister under Tony Blair Chris Leslie MP, businessman and former Dragon's Den investor Theo Paphitis, Faiza Shaheen, director of the left-wing think-tank CLASS and talkRADIO presenter and newspaper columnist Julia Hartley-Brewer.
60 min
20/09/2018
David Dimbleby presents an hour of topical debate from Dewsbury. On the panel are vice-chair of the Conservative Party, Chris Skidmore MP, shadow secretary of state for international trade, Labour MP Barry Gardiner, leader of the Liberal Democrats, Vince Cable MP, lawyer, campaigner and former chief prosecutor for north west England, Nazir Afzal, and the associate editor of the Daily Telegraph, Camilla Tominey.
60 min
27/09/2018
David Dimbleby presents an hour of topical debate from Bishop Auckland. On the panel are Conservative backbencher and leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, chair of the Labour Party and Corbyn supporter Ian Lavery MP, columnist for The Sun and The Times newspapers and associate editor of The Spectator Rod Liddle, comedian and former Labour advisor Ayesha Hazarika, and director of the think-tank Demos and former advisor to Nick Clegg Polly Mackenzie.
60 min
04/10/2018
David Dimbleby chairs debate from Canary Wharf. On the panel are justice secretary David Gauke MP, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry MP, businessman and right-hand man to Alan Sugar on the BBC's The Apprentice Claude Littner, spoken word artist, musician and social activist George Mpanga, also known as George the Poet, and journalist, former political editor of The Sunday Times and political writer for The Daily Mail Isabel Oakeshott.
60 min
11/10/2018
David Dimbleby presents topical debate from the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. On the panel: Conservative MP for Aberdeen South Ross Thomson, former leader of the Scottish Labour Party and former contestant on I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Kezia Dugdale MSP, Brexit minister for the Scottish government Mike Russell MSP, crime writer Val McDermid and Spectator editor Fraser Nelson.
60 min
18/10/2018
David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Guildford. On the panel are: James Cleverly MP, deputy chairman of the Conservative Party; Sir Keir Starmer MP, shadow Brexit secretary; Nish Kumar, comedian, television presenter and satirist; Michael Dobbs, former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, Tory peer and author of House of Cards; and Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor of The Economist.
60 min
25/10/2018
David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Barrow-in-Furness, where panellists face topical questions from the audience. The guests this week are Andrea Jenkyns, Lisa Nandy, Hannah Bardell, Paul Mason, and Sebastian Payne.
60 min
01/11/2018
David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Clacton-on-Sea. Panellists include chief secretary to the treasury Liz Truss, shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald, senior editor of The Economist Anne McElvoy, associate director of the Institute of Economic Affairs Kate Andrews and comedian and author Shappi Khorsandi.
60 min
08/11/2018
David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Dulwich. Panellists include parliamentary private secretary to chancellor Philip Hammond Kwasi Kwarteng MP, a Brexit supporter who was educated at Eton, Cambridge and Harvard and worked in the financial sector before being elected as a Tory MP in 2010; shadow home secretary Diane Abbott MP, who is also a member of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's inner circle; vice president of the European Parliament Mairead McGuinness MEP, representing Irish political party Fine Gael; journalist, author, radio presenter and columnist for The Times David Aaronovitch; as well as the Canadian author, public speaker and psychologist Jordan Peterson.
60 min
15/11/2018
David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Milford Haven. On the panel are business and energy minister Claire Perry, shadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner, Westminster leader for Plaid Cymru Liz Saville Roberts, Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Service Union (PCS) and newly-elected president of the Trades Union Council, and Tim Stanley, columnist for the Daily Telegraph.
60 min
22/11/2018
David Dimbleby presents an hour of topical debate from Cannock. On the panel are Conservative MP and secretary of state for Northern Ireland Karen Bradley, shadow treasury minister Clive Lewis MP, the managing director of the supermarket chain Iceland, Richard Walker, former president of the John Lewis Partnership Council and former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Trevor Phillips, and journalist and presenter on talkRadio Julia Hartley-Brewer.
60 min
29/11/2018
David Dimbleby chairs debate from Penzance, with a panel of politicians and other guests facing topical questions from the audience. The panellists are: Nadhim Zahawi MP, minister for education, Conservative; Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, shadow business secretary, Labour; Layla Moran MP, education spokesperson, Liberal Democrats; Tim Martin, chairman of the Wetherspoon pub chain; and Benjamin Zephaniah, poet and writer.
60 min
06/12/2018
David Dimbleby chairs debate from Bishop's Stortford. On the panel are Conservative secretary of state for housing, communities and local government James Brokenshire MP, Labour's shadow attorney general and member of the House of Lords Shami Chakrabarti, the SNP's leader in Westminster Ian Blackford MP, director of the Institute for Government Jill Rutter, and columnist and former newspaper editor Charles Moore.
60 min
13/12/2018
David Dimbleby chairs the debate from Southwark in south London. On the panel are former Brexit secretary, former Europe minister and Conservative Party chairman David Davis MP, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner MP, former secretary of state for education and current chair of the treasury select committee Nicky Morgan MP, former co-leader of the Green Party and the party's only MP Caroline Lucas, and comedian, writer and broadcaster Jo Brand.
60 min