Sarah ManavisVerified account

I believe that the Labour Party initially had Rebecca Long Bailey attending but she had to pull out and was replaced by Ashworth at the last minute, though the panel being 4/5ths men instead would have hardly been ideal either

Does the BBC ask for specific reps from all parties or is that the responsibility of the parties themselves?

In fairness to beeb if the parties don't put women up there's not much they can do

Is BBCQT now facilitating stag parties? Because this looks an awful lot like a terrible one that ends with none of its participants able to make eye contact with any of the others ever again. So watch out Hull!

Not defending the BBC but would any self-respecting woman want to appear on a panel with some of these men. I can imagine the call’ so we’ve already booked Cleverly, Tice, Ashworth....’ reply ‘it’s ok, I’ll pass thanks’.