Question Time host Fiona Bruce is back tonight with a brand new panel. Among the guests is Brexit campaigner and Brexit Party member Alexandra Phillips who will represent her party following their huge success in last week’s European elections.

Who is Alexandra Phillips?

Alexandra Phillips is a Brexit campaigner and Brexit Party MEP.

She is an elected Member of the European Parliament for the South East England having won her seat in last week’s elections.

While Question Time has previously been blasted for snubbing Nigel Farage’s party members from the panel, Ms Phillip’s appearance will come as a welcome change.

Ms Phillips is 35-years-old and is Ukip former head of media.

She worked for Ukip for three years before quitting to join the Conservative Party.

She then quit the Tories over her frustration at Theresa May’s failure to push through a Brexit deal.

Ms Phillip’s rejoined Mr Farage ahead of the the European elections but has apparently admired the Ukip leader since her days as a student journalist.

In a candid blog on the Conservative Party website in 2016 she wrote: “I filmed Ukip as a student journalist.

“Immediately I was captivated by Nigel, a larger-than-life character with magnetism almost impossible to ignore.”

The move to have a Brexit Party member on Question Time comes after it failed to feature any Brexit Party candidates during the May elections.

The Brexit Party leader told a crowd at a rally in Wolverhampton: “We can choose to buy different newspapers.

“We can choose to listen to different commercial radio stations.

“Where I have a problem is when we are effectively taxed £150 a year just to have a television in our house.

“When the public service broadcaster does not put a single representative of this new party on any major television programme, even when we have gone from nothing to topping the polls.”

The Brexit Party won 29 out of the UK’s 72 seats in European Parliament.

Nigel Farage’s victory came largely at the expense of the Tories.

Theresa May’s party have lost a massive share of the vote across all regions, losing 15 MEP seats to leave a total of four.

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