Susie McCabe to make her Question Time debut | Comedian says it's ‘a bit bonkers'

Susie McCabe to make her Question Time debut

Comedian says it's ‘a bit bonkers'

Comedian Susie McCabe is to make her debut on Question Time tonight.

The Glaswegian stand-up will appear on BBC One’s flagship current affairs debate show following appearances on Have I Got News For You and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order.

She joked that her booking was ‘a bit bonkers… because I am always that relaxed about politics and current affairs.’

McCabe has previously been outspoken about  Westminster's reluctance to allow a second Scottish independence referendum.

Speaking on BBC Scotland’s Debate Night in February, she said:‘I'm 42 years old, 29 years of my life have been ruled by a government that not that I didn't vote for or my family didn't vote for, but my country didn't vote for… Yeah that's democracy. 

‘When we discuss our relationship with Westminster now, in 2022, I don't think you're discussing that relationship through the prism of Scottish nationalism. I think we're now discussing that relationship through the prism of English nationalism because it is English introverted nationalism, that has given us our current government – a government which had to move right of centre to combat the Ukip vote.’

Fiona Bruce will be hosting tonight’s Question Time from Inverness, with the other panellists: the SNP’s Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution  Angus Robertson,  Scottish Tory chairman Craig Hoy, Labour MSP for Glasgow Pam Duncan-Glancy and Spectator editor Fraser Nelson. It airs on BBC One at 10.40pm.

Published: 30 Jun 2022

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