QUESTION Time tonight will take place in the North Yorkshire town of Middlesbrough.
We can't tell you if you should expect any racist and uninformed audience members in the front row, but we can say who is on the panel.
Tonight Jon Ashworth is representing Labour, while Nadhim Zahawi will be speaking for the Conservatives.
Ashworth recently had to apologise after audio secretly recorded by a Tory activist friend was leaked in which he claimed he did not believe Labour could win the December election. Turns out he was right.
Business minister Zahawi, on the other hand, is a supporter of Boris Johnson's disastrous points-based immigration system, so expect to hear a little about that tonight.
On our Question Time panel tonight. @nadhimzahawi, @JonAshworth, @johnbirdswords, @MirrorAlison and Ayesha Vardag. Join us from Middlesbrough at 10:35pm. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/rklbIHGKfS
— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) February 27, 2020
Editor of The Mirror Alison Phillips will also be appearing on the panel, alongside Baron John Bird, the founder of the Big Issue, and lawyer Ayesha Vardag.
Vardag is a solicitor who markets herself as 'Britain's top divorce lawyer'. Maybe she'll have some advice on the on-going Brexit break-up.
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