Question Time Birmingham: full lineup of panel and how to watch as BBC show comes live from West Midlands

BBC political show Question Time returns to screens for the first time in 2023 tonight. This first show of the new year comes live from Birmingham.

The show gives the opportunity for members of a studio audience to ask questions to a four person panel. This panel is often made up of politicians, campaigners and commentators.

A wide array of questions are asked by audience members. For the coming weeks, you can expect to hear questions relating to the cost of living crisis and ongoing industrial action from unions being brought up.

These questions and many others will likely be asked on the programme tonight. Here is the full lineup of panellists who will be answering questions asked by the Birmingham audience.

Who is on the panel for Question Time in Birmingham?

Anna Soubry - Former Conservative MP for Broxtowe 2010-2019, minister under David Cameron, resigned to form Change UK in 2019

Ash Sarkar - Contributing editor at Novara Media, has lectured at universities in the UK and the Netherlands, currently writing a book on class, culture and modern politics

Bridget Phillipson - Shadow education secretary, previously shadow secretary to the treasury, MP for Houghton and Sunderland South

Alex Chalk - Minister at the Ministry of Defence, MP for Cheltenham since 2015, former barrister

This week’s episode can be watched tonight from 8pm on BBC iPlayer. It will then be shown on BBC One after the 10 o’clock news.