Host Fiona Bruce will be joined by Tory MP Robert Jenrick, Labour’s Richard Burgon, Lib Dem’s Chuka Ummuna and the SNP’s Philippa Whitford. Also joining those four will be journalist Sherelle Jacobs of the Telegraph. The programme has in the past been accused of presenting a bias towards Remain voters and some have once again accused the show of bias.
Despite 17.4 million Britons voting to leave the EU, there will be no Brexit party candidate represented tonight.
In addition, tonight’s Question Time will be held in Bolton – a constituency that voted 58 percent to leave the EU in 2016.
Mr Jenrick, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, previously voted against then Prime Minister Theresa May’s no-deal Brexit proposal in March.
Although remaining neutral, Mr Burgon’s party has pledged to bring back a second referendum on Brexit if they win the election.
Mr Ummuna is a former Labour MP who abandoned his party to join Change UK, and who has since turned to the Lib Dems, who are championing themselves as the “anti-Brexit party”.
Ms Whitford will be representing the SNP, whose leader Nicola Sturgeon told supporters yesterday that a vote for the SNP is a vote to “escape Brexit”.
Ms Sturgeon said in a speech in Dundee East: “A vote for the SNP is a vote to escape Brexit and the threats that it poses to our economies and public services. It is a vote to secure the right to choose our own future.
“And if the future we then choose is as an independent member of the EU, we will be able to take full advantage of the single market, currently around eight times the size of the UK alone.”
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Other users said they would not watch tonight’s show.
One Twitter user wrote: “Richard Burgon. A reason not to watch”.
Another said: “I think it’s a no from me”.
Despite the accusations of bias towards the BBC, the broadcaster has maintained that it attempts to provide a neutral and fair analysis of news content across all its channels.
The BBC states in its guidelines that it is “is committed to achieving due impartiality in all its output”.
The corporation also states that it attempts “to provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them”.
