Who is on BBCs Question Time tonight? Full line-up of guests confirmed

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THE last Question Time before the election is kicking off tonight.

All the major parties will be represented in the public quizzing hosted by Fiona Bruce. Here’s whose going to be on at 10:45pm tonight on BBC One.

The final Question Time of the election is going out tonight on BBC1 at 10:45pm

Whose on Question Time tonight?

James Cleverly

James Cleverly will be on for the Tories

James Cleverly, 49, is the member of parliament for the Essex constituency of Braintree and incumbent chairman of the Conservative Party.

He is originally from Lewisham, South East London.

He has previously served as deputy chairman and as parliamentary under-secretary for Exiting the European Union.

He first became an MP at the 2015 election, having served since 2007 as a member of the London Assembly.

Before becoming an MP, he worked in magazine and online publishing, and since 1991 has also served in the Territorial Army, currently holding the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

He has a wife named Susannah Janet Temple Cleverly and they have two sons, Freddy and Rupert.

Anneliese Dodds

Anneliese Dodds will be on for Labour

Anneliese Dodds will be appearing

Johnathan Ashworth was due to step in as a replacement for Laura Pidcock who had been billed to appear.

But, after it was announced he would appear, the BBC faced a backlash for fielding an all-male panel.

Fellow Labour candidate Anneliese Dodds has now agreed to appear on the show.

The former MEP served in the European Parliament and was appointed as a Shadow Treasury Minister by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in 2017 after winning Oxford East in the election in 2017.

Sir Ed Davey

Sir Ed Davey will be representing the Lib Dems

Sir Ed played an important role in the Conservative-led government under David Cameron and became energy and climate change secretary in 2012.

In 2015 he was defeated in his Kingston and Surbiton seat after 18 years as an MP, but won it back from the Conservatives in 2017.

He has ruled out any future coalition with Jeremy Corbyn or Boris Johnson and has described a no-deal Brexit as a nuclear option.

If that did come to pass, Sir Ed said he would push for the Lib Dems to form a temporary government with other parties.

He said: That would just be a temporary government for one purpose and one purpose alone to pass the legislation for a peoples vote.

Ian Blackford

Ian Blackford will be putting forward the SNP case

The 57-year-old former investment banker has been the MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber since May 2015.

He is also the leader of the SNP in the Commons and was the partys treasurer from 1999 to 2000.

Blackford was educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh before joining NatWest Securities as an analyst.

The company was bought by BT Alex Brown and Blackford was made managing director.

When that company was in turn merged with Deutsche Bank in 1999 he ran the banks equity division in Scotland and the Netherlands.

In 2005 he joined the Dutch baking company CSM as an investor relations manger and was appointed non-executive chairman of the telecommunications firm Commsworld in 2006.

He initially stood as an SNP candidate in Ayr in the 1997 general election but failed to get elected.

A similar fate awaited him when he stood in the Paisley 1997 by-election.

He then stood for election in the constituency of Ross, Skye and Lochaber in the 2015 general election, managing to defeat the former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy by 5,124 votes.

Richard Tice

Richard Tice will be on for the Brexit Party

Richard Tice was born in 1964 in Farnham, Surrey and is the grandson of the property developer Bernard Sunley.

His is the Chairman of the Brexit Party and stood as a candidate in the European elections this year and was elected as MEP for the East of England.

Mr Tice is also CEO of Quidnet Capital, an asset management company based in Mayfair.

This election, Mr Tice is standing in Hartlepool as the Brexit Party candidate.

Nigel Farage told the Hartlepool Mail: We will put someone in Parliament who will hold the prime minister to his promises, we dont trust the Tories any more than the people of Hartlepool do.

Richard Tice is the kind of guy who over the last 20 years has led huge consortiums and investments and without making any false promises he is perhaps the kind of guy who can bring that investment to the area.