BBC to film Question Time in Brighton next week

BBC TV is to film Question Time in Brighton next Thursday (27 March).

The panel will include the Labour MP Diane Abbott, Simon Wolfson, the chief executive of high street clothes retailer Next, and Simply Red singer-songwriter Mick Hucknall.

Lord Wolfson is a prominent Conservative supporter and Mick Hucknall – or Mike Hucknall as presenter David Dimbleby referred to him tonight (Thursday 20 March) – is a Labour supporter.

The episode will be the first to have been filmed in Brighton since September 2012, the day after the Liberal Democrat party conference ended.

Two more panel members for next week’s edition will be confirmed in the coming week.