Question Time LIVE: Is online information safe? BBC audience all UNDER 30! Join debate
QUESTION Time is being broadcast from Leeds this week, the panel includes James Cleverly, Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party, Shadow Attorney General and member of the House of Lords, Shami Chakrabarti, the SNP Shadow Spokesman for Defence, Stewart McDonald, journalist and transgender activist, Paris Lees and the Mail on Sunday columnist, Peter Hitchens.
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11:46pm: That's all folks!
Question time is off for two weeks, April 12 will be in Liverpool.
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11:45pm: Paris Lees said The Conservative Party are taking money from Russian oligarchs
David Dimbleby asked what that had to do with the question.
11:44pm: Shami Chakrabarti said Stewart McDonald vilified the Russian people
She said the Russian people are subject to human rights abuses.
11:42pm: Peter Hitchens said the UK have dealings with other sinister tyrants
He said he does not like Putin but the Government bows down to Saudi Arabia and deals with China.
11:41pm: Stewart McDonald said he does not agree with Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens asked to elaborate but the Mr McDonald would not.
11:39pm: Peter Hitchens said Ukraine was an aggressive act by the West
He said he turned a non-aligned country towards the EU and the West have no idea how Russians perceive this events and people should consider their actions toward Russia if they want a better relationship.
11:37pm: Peter Hitchens said Russia is in Europe
He said he does not have total confidence in the intelligence services and there must have been some sort of Russian involvement. But Nato has antagonised Russia since the collapse of the USSR.
11:36pm: James Cleverly said he has not seen the report
But he has no doubt of Russian involvement, but he has not said it is time to turn our back on them.
11:34pm: Fourth Question
Is it time for Europe to turn its back on Russia?
11:33pm: Stewart McDonald said transgender women are women
He said it is self-evident. He is an openly gay man and transgender people have stood with them.
11:31pm: Audience member said we cannot claim to be a fair society if you discriminate between genders
Shami Chakrabarti said there is not a meritocracy in this country.
11:29pm: Paris Lees said Peter Hitchens has attacked transgender people
She said he wrote about it in his column.
11:28pm: Paris Lees said transgender people are framed as the problem
She said transgender people suffer a lot of violence.
11:27pm: Peter Hitchens said there shouldn't be all female election lists.
He said it is outrageous to judge people on characteristics, whether it is gender or colour of someone's skin. He reminded people of Martin Luther King's speech to judge people on their character.
11:25pm: James Cleverly said he is proud his Party has a second female Prime Minister
He said people will look back with bemusement in the way people do now with the arguments about homosexuality.
11:24pm: Third question
Should transgender women be allowed on all female lists for elections?
11:23pm: Audience member said her question was derailed by the panel
She said she wanted to hear the different perspectives from different generations - she said Grandma was right.
11:22pm: McDonald said David Cameron and George Osborne are charlatans
He said they left as soon as their chickens came home to roost.
11:20pm: Audience member said stop the doom and gloom
McDonald said it is a mistake.
11:18pm: Shami Chakrabarti said she values the Good Friday Agreement and wants an answer
James Cleverly said his Party has suffered disproportionately from terrorism and he can assure people they won't jeopardise.
11:16pm: James Cleverly said he voted Brexit and the Government has a duty to show things valued with EU relationship will be preserved
He said there are many opportunities with Brexit and we have lost track with relationships with other parts of the world because of obsession with the EU.
11:14pm: Paris Lees said it was the Tory Party's mess
She said she is let down by baby-boomers and they are one of the most destructive nations ever.
11:12pm: Peter Hitchens said you get more sensible when you get older
When he was a radically Trotskyist when he was younger and had the same views as the Tories. As you get older you make more rational decision. In terms of youth vs age he had no business deciding the fate of the country until he was about 40.
11:12pm: Shami Chakrabarti said she thinks people younger than 18 should vote
She said young people will have to live with the result for longer
11:10pm: Audience member said it is nonesense that young people didn't vote Brexit
Said they know what they voted for it meant leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union.
11:09pm: Audience member said 16-year-olds should be given the vote.
Other audience member said it is a mistake.
11:08pm: Steward McDonald said Brexit is a mistake
He said we should stay in the Single Market and the Customs Union.
11:06pm: Second question
Grandma is to blame to Brexit but since when did youth trump experience?
11:05pm: Audience member said 14-year-olds can sign up to Facebook
Said younger people will have had all their information given away before voting age.
11:02: James Cleverly said the Tories have never used it
He added the audience are historically going through the hardest times in terms of information with the internet.
11:00pm: Steward McDonald implicated the Tories in the Analytica scandel
But then immediately backtracked.
10:59: Peter Hitchens said there is only one way to make it worse and that is to get the Government involved
He said Governments tend to make it worse it is not the same as having information is not stolen it is given away.
10:58: Shami Chakrabarti said people should have a right to delete information
10:55pm: Stewart McDonald deleted Facebook said the offer is not clear
He said no one joined it to have their information manipulated.
10:54pm: Shami Chakrabarti said we need a more equal relationship with social media
She said she is a "tin foil hatter" and doesn't trust social media.
10:52: Audience member said it is impossible to totally delete Facebook
She said it is "creepy".
10:51: Peter Hitchens said Hillary Clinton lost because she is Hillary Clinton
Said it is not because of the Russians.
10:50: Peter Hitchens said it's a bit late now
Says Facebook already knows everything about you and they have always been taking information.
10:49: First question
Should I delete Facebook?
10:48pm: We're off!
Tonight's Question Time audience are ALL under 30-years-old.
What might be asked?
This week Russia will undoubtedly come up, possibly around oligarchs, possibly Boris Johnson’s remarks about Hitler and the perhaps the re-election of Vladimir Putin.
Facebook and the Analytica scandal will possible come up too.
Brexit will most likely be asked, especially in regards to the Fisheries Policy, the protest on the Thames and the transition deal proposed on the weekend.
Who is on the panel this week?
Stewart McDonald
Mr McDonald is the SNP Shadow Defence Spokesman.
He has been MP for Glasgow since 2015.
He previously worked as a holiday rep in Tenerife.
James Cleverly
James Cleverly campaigned for Britain to leave the EU.
He has been MP for Braintree since 2015 and is a reservist in the Army.
Shami Chakrabarti
Shami Chakrabarti is Labour Shadow Attorney General.
She was Director of the human rights organisation Liberty from 2003-2016.
Ms Chakrabarti sits in the House of Lords.
Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens is a Mail on Sunday columnist and author of six books.
He was awarded the Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2010 and was a Moscow correspondent for the Daily Express during the collapse of the USSR.
He is also the brother of the late Christopher Hitchens.
Paris Lees
Ms Lees is a journalist, openly transgender and an activist.
She has written for the Guardian and the Independent and founded the first British magazine aimed at the trans community, META.
In 2018 she became the first transgender woman to appear in British Vogue.