Election diary: Nigel Farage to face live Question Time audience

Dominic Penna

28 June 2024 at 1:52 am·1-min read

Nigel Farage will face questions from a live Question Time audience on Friday night as the election campaign enters its final days.

The Reform leader will spend half an hour responding to voters in a special edition of the BBC political programme hosted by Fiona Bruce.

The show will also feature Adrian Ramsay, who will also spend 30 minutes taking questions.

It follows a similar episode with Plaid Cymru’s Rhun ap Iorwerth, which aired on Monday, and an event with Rishi Sunak, Sir Keir Starmer, Sir Ed Davey and John Swinney last week.

This morning Sir Keir Starmer will appear on BBC Breakfast while Rishi Sunak will visit a school in Teeside.

Elsewhere, Angela Rayner, the shadow deputy prime minister, will join her party’s Scottish leader, Anas Sarwar, as she promotes the ‘New Deal for Working People’ that is being offered by Labour.

And Douglas Ross will also be on the campaign trail as he seeks election in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East.

Mr Ross has already announced he will quit as Scottish Tory leader after Thursday’s poll following a furious backlash from within the party over his controversial selection this month, despite a previous pledge to stand down as an MP.

Sir Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, takes part in a BBC general election interview at 7.30pm.

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