Question Time (1979)

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Birmingham. On the panel: from the government, minister at the defence department Alex Chalk MP; Labour’s Bridget Phillipson MP, who is shadow secretary of state for education; former politician, now practicing barrister Anna Soubry; left-wing journalist and activist Ash Sarkar; and Tim Stanley, historian, author and broadcaster.

Fiona Bruce presents a special edition of Question Time, with the whole programme devoted to the problems and pressures in the country’s health and social care systems. On the panel, from the government, minister for Health and Social Care, Will Quince MP; Labour’s Wes Streeting MP, who is shadow secretary for Health and Social Care; Dame Clare Gerada, president of the Royal College of GPs; Lord Adebowale, the chairman of the NHS Confederation; and the journalist and author James Bartholomew.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire. On the panel, from the Conservatives, former party chairman Jake Berry MP; Labour’s Tracy Brabin, who is the mayor of West Yorkshire; editor of the Daily Mirror Alison Phillips; and author and political satirist Konstantin Kisin.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from Glasgow. On the panel: from the SNP, transport minister Jenny Gilruth MSP; from the Conservatives, Scotland Office minister John Lamont MP; Labour’s shadow Scottish secretary of state Ian Murray MP; commentator India Willoughby; and author and journalist Ella Whelan.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from Swindon in Wiltshire. On the panel, from the UK government, George Freeman MP, the new minister for Science, Innovation and Technology; Lisa Nandy, who is Labour’s shadow secretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities; Sarah Olney, the Liberal Democrats’ Treasury spokesperson; Inaya Folarin Iman who is a broadcaster and founder of the Equiano Project; and the author and columnist, Matthew Syed.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from Rugby in the West Midlands. On the panel: from the UK government, immigration minister Robert Jenrick MP; Stephen Kinnock MP, who is Labour's shadow immigration minister; broadcaster and writer Ruth Wishart; author and columnist Lionel Shriver; and editor of Private Eye Ian Hislop.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from Cardiff. On the panel: from the UK Government, the secretary of state for Wales, David TC Davies MP; Labour’s Thangam Debbonaire MP, shadow leader of the House of Commons; Liz Saville-Roberts MS, who is the leader of Plaid Cymru at Westminster; the actress Rakie Ayola; and the former ministerial adviser Anita Boateng.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of current affairs discussion from Sunderland. On the panel, from the UK government, minister for Energy Security and Net Zero, Graham Stuart MP; Labour’s shadow secretary of state for Business, Jonathan Reynolds MP; Kirsty Blackman MP, the Scottish National Party’s cabinet office spokesperson; the industrialist Juergen Maier; and the journalist and political commentator, Tom Harwood.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from London. On the panel: from the UK government, immigration minister Robert Jenrick MP; from Labour, shadow Home Office minister Sarah Jones MP; author and journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown; former home secretary and chancellor Ken Clarke; and broadcaster and writer Richard Madeley.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of current affairs discussion from Warrington. On the panel, from the Conservatives, Bim Afolami MP, minister in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero; Labour’s shadow secretary for digital, culture, media and sport, Lucy Powell MP; Stephen Flynn MP, who is the Scottish National Party’s Westminster leader; broadcaster and journalist Anne McElvoy; and chairman of Tesco and Barratt Developments, John Allan.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from Newcastle-under-Lyme. On the panel, from the UK government, Andrew Bowie MP, minister in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero; Labour’s shadow secretary for Transport, Louise Haigh MP; Zing Tsjeng, the editor-in-chief of Vice UK; the chairman of the NatWest Group, Howard Davies; and the TalkTV political presenter, Tom Newton Dunn.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from Bristol. On the panel: from the UK government, minister in the defence department Dr Andrew Murrison MP; shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry MP; Liberal Democrat spokesperson on housing and communities Helen Morgan MP; chief executive officer of Oxfam GB Danny Sriskandarajah; and the editor of the Spectator magazine Fraser Nelson.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from York. On the panel are from the UK government, cabinet office minister Jeremy Quin MP; Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting MP; co-leader of the Green Party Carla Denyer; financial journalist and podcaster Merryn Somerset Webb; and former Archbishop of York, the Right Reverend Lord John Sentamu.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Greenford, in west London. On the panel - Rachel Maclean MP, minister at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities; Lisa Nandy MP, Labour’s shadow secretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities; the Liberal Democrats spokesperson on foreign affairs, Layla Moran MP; and the journalist and TV presenter Camilla Tominey.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Telford in Shropshire. On the panel - Mark Harper MP, Transport secretary; from Labour, the shadow foreign secretary David Lammy MP; Minette Batters, who is president of the National Farmers Union; the journalist and author Peter Hitchens; and the musician Billy Bragg.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of discussion and debate from Bexhill-on-Sea. On the panel: social care minister Helen Whately MP; Labour’s shadow leader of the House of Commons Thangam Debbonaire MP; writer, musician and former vicar Richard Coles; journalist and activist Ash Sarkar; and radio presenter and columnist Nick Ferrari.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from Fort William in the Highlands. On the panel, from the Scottish Government, cabinet secretary for net zero, Mairi McAllan MSP; from the UK government, Scotland minister, Lord Offord; Labour’s deputy leader in Scotland, Jackie Baillie MSP; the former first minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond; and the journalist Nina Myskow.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from Gravesend in Kent. On the panel, Laura Trott MP, minister in the Department for Work and Pensions; Labour’s shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Peter Kyle MP; Munira Wilson MP, who is the Liberal Democrat spokesperson on education; the journalist and broadcaster Janet Street-Porter; and the businessman Theo Paphitis.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from Leicester in the east Midlands. On the panel: from the UK government, George Freeman MP, minister for Science, Innovation and Technology; Labour’s shadow minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding Jess Phillips MP; anti-poverty campaigner and cook Jack Monroe; and the former governor of Hong Kong and current chancellor of Oxford University Chris Patten.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from King’s Lynn, in West Norfolk. On the panel, from the government, Lee Rowley MP, who is a minister in the department for Levelling-Up, Housing and Communities; the shadow secretary of state for Work and Pensions, Jonathan Ashworth MP; the broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika, who was an adviser to the Labour Party; and the former Supreme Court Justice, Lord Sumption.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Deeside, close to the Welsh/English border. On the panel, from the government, secretary of state for Wales David TC Davies MP; Lord Blunkett, former Labour home secretary; Times Radio’s political correspondent Charlotte Ivers; the SNP’s social justice spokesperson David Linden MP; and journalist Guto Harri, who was an adviser to former prime minister Boris Johnson.

Seven years on from the Brexit vote, Fiona Bruce hosts a special edition of Question Time in Clacton, with an audience of people who voted to leave. What do they now make of post-Brexit Britain? On the panel, from the Conservatives, the former government minister, John Redwood MP; from Labour, shadow cabinet minister Baroness Chapman; the former adviser to Tony Blair and Remain supporter, Alastair Campbell; the businessman and former Brexit Party MEP, Ben Habib; and Professor Anand Menon, director of UK in a Changing Europe.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of discussion and debate from Exeter. On the panel, health and social care minister, Helen Whately MP; the shadow mental health minister, Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP; the Scottish National Party’s deputy leader at Westminster, Mhairi Black MP; Dia Chakravarty, columnist at the Daily Telegraph; and the chef and campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Fleetwood in Lancashire. On the panel, minister for veterans’ affairs Johnny Mercer, shadow secretary of state for education Bridget Phillipson, economics editor at the Spectator magazine Kate Andrews and entrepreneur and Just Stop Oil supporter Dale Vince.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Ipswich in Suffolk. On the panel: from the government, business minister Kevin Hollinrake; Labour’s shadow secretary for culture, media and sport Thangam Debbonaire; writer and free-speech advocate Ella Whelan; and author, broadcaster and former Olympian Matthew Syed.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of political and cultural debate from Sale in Greater Manchester. On the panel are: Mark Spencer MP, the government's minister for environment, food and rural affairs; Labour’s Lisa Nandy MP, who is shadow secretary for international development; the Liberal Democrats’ chief whip, Wendy Chamberlain MP; conservative commentator Tim Montgomerie; and chief executive of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, Henri Murison.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical discussion from Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. On the panel, from the government, transport minister Richard Holden MP; Labour’s shadow paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth MP; Emma Dabiri, academic and broadcaster; the boss of Iceland supermarkets, Richard Walker; and the best-selling author, Tony Parsons.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of political and cultural debate from London. On the panel, from the government, Victoria Atkins MP, financial secretary to the treasury; Labour’s Yvette Cooper, who is the shadow home secretary; the TV personality and former newspaperman Piers Morgan; Dr Halima Begum, who runs the international charity, Action Aid UK; and the editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Jake Wallis Simons.

Fiona Bruce chairs an hour of topical discussion from Lisburn in Northern Ireland. On the panel, the secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris MP; Labour’s shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn MP; from Sinn Fein, John Finucane MP; the leader of the Democrat Unionist Party, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP; and Sorcha Eastwood MLA, of the Alliance Party.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Bradford in West Yorkshire. On the panel: from the government, Lee Rowley MP, who is a minister in the Department for Levelling-Up, Housing and Communities; Jonathan Reynolds MP, who is Labour’s shadow business secretary; the Scottish National Party’s Alyn Smith MP; Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, former chair of the Conservative party; and Sunday Times Whitehall editor Gabriel Pogrund.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire. On the panel: from the government, cabinet office minister Jeremy Quin MP; Labour’s cabinet office shadow Nick Thomas-Symonds MP; Camilla Cavendish, former director of policy at Downing Street; president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Marie van der Zyl; and Artificial Intelligence researcher and entrepreneur Mustafa Suleyman. Live on iPlayer at 8pm.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Llandudno in North Wales. On the panel, from the UK government, David TC Davies MP, the secretary of state for Wales; Sir Chris Bryant MP, who is Labour’s shadow minister for Creative Industries and Digital; Plaid Cymru’s Westminster leader, Liz Saville Roberts; a political journalist and broadcaster, Anne McElvoy; and soprano Camilla Kerslake.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of current affairs discussion from Bridgwater in Somerset. On the panel: from the Conservatives, former business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg MP; shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson MP; Times columnist Juliet Samuel; economist Paul Johnson; and CEO of Oxfam UK Danny Sriskandarajah.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Stevenage in Hertfordshire. On the panel are government minister Andrew Griffith MP, Labour’s shadow employment minister Alison McGovern MP, author and political journalist Isabel Oakeshott, and businessman and Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant.

Fiona Bruce presents topical debate from Doncaster in South Yorkshire. On the panel are cabinet office minister Esther McVey MP, Labour's shadow environment secretary Steve Reed MP, Liberal Democrats' foreign affairs spokesperson Layla Moran MP, comedian Zoe Lyons and journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Petersfield.

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Kelso.