Question Time

Tomorrow night, Dermot O’Leary will be hosting a Question Time special, the audience made up entirely of first-time voters. We’ll see it live from Canary Wharf at 8pm on BBC Three.

You can still apply to be in the audience, putting questions to the panel, here – although I did so last week and haven’t got an invite.

The panellists were announced this morning.

In the Labour corner will be Higher Education Minister and former youngest MP, now 37, David Lammy. He’s been very active in trying to raise the numbers of school-leavers going on to university in his Tottenham constituency, but should be in for some stick after university spending cuts were announced in December, and he delivered some rather contradictory messages on those cuts in January.

Representing the Conservatives… Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Jeremy Hunt. The Surrey MP was in the same Oxford Tory crowd as David Cameron and Boris Johnson, but only entered politics in 2005 after working in public relations. Plus points in that area for his own YouTube channel, though perhaps his infamous 1p phone call expense claim was ill-advised.

Cornwall Lib Dem Julia Goldsworthy’s similarly busy on Facebook, and was the youngest member of the Commons when elected in 2005. She shadows on Communities and Local Government.

Rory Bremner will be there to give them a hard time. Pop star Jamelia and Tim Campbell, who won the first series of the Apprentice back in 2005, will be there… I’m not quite sure why.

It should be a good opportunity to see what we’re concerned with, what questions we want answered, as the election nears. Will the politicians be watching, or at least hopping over from the England game on ITV?