Ahead of the General Election on 4 July, Fiona Bruce will host a Question Time Leaders’ Special with the leaders of the four biggest political parties in Great Britain on Thursday 20 June.
Here’s everything you need to know about the Special.
How to watch the Question Time Leaders’ Special on TV and BBC iPlayer
The two hour special will be broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 8pm on Thursday 20 June.
The participants in the Question Time Leaders’ Special on 20 June are:
- Rishi Sunak – Conservative Party
- Sir Keir Starmer – Labour Party
- John Swinney – Scottish National Party
- Sir Ed Davey – Liberal Democrats
An additional Question Time Leaders’ Special, featuring representatives from Reform UK and the Green Party, will be broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 8pm on Friday 28 June.
There will also be a Question Time Plaid Cymru Leader Special, hosted by Bethan Rhys Roberts, which will be broadcast on Monday 24 June from 7pm to 7.30pm. The programme will feature a live studio audience putting questions to Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru, and will be simulcast on BBC One Wales and the BBC News channel across the UK.
In the two-hour special, the leaders will have 30 minutes to answer questions from the live studio audience in York in the established Question Time format.
The order the leaders will appear is Sir Ed Davey, John Swinney, Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak. This has been agreed among the BBC and political parties.
As is the case with every Question Time programme, questions will reflect the subjects people are most interested in and the audience will submit questions in advance and on the night.
The selected audience will reflect a wide range of political sentiment and voting intentions from across Great Britain.
For more information on how the BBC is approaching debate programming, please see here.
BBC TV Election Debates Schedule
BBC Network TV
Wednesday 26 June, Nottingham – Mishal Husain will host a head-to-head debate between Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer. This is set to be the last TV debate of the election campaign, as people prepare to cast their votes the following week. It will be broadcast from 9pm-10pm.
Scotland
Watch the Debate Night – Election 2024 Leaders’ Special here
Find out more about Scotland coverage here
Wales
Friday 21 June – Join Bethan Rhys Roberts for the Wales Leaders’ Debate live from Central Square, BBC Wales’s broadcast hub in Cardiff at 7pm. A digital live page will run during the leaders’ debate offering analysis and reaction. It will be simulcast on BBC Radio Wales.
There will also be two special Hawl i Holi debate programmes for BBC Radio Cymru from Ystradgynlais and Wrexham.
Northern Ireland
Thursday 27 June – Tara Mills will bring key developments into focus as the election campaign nears its end with the Northern Ireland Leaders’ Debate on BBC One Northern Ireland and BBC iPlayer.
Election 2024 on BBC iPlayer
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