Unquestionable

That the Question Time audience is supposed to reflect the local political culture is the whole point of moving the programme around the country. It would be no bad thing if the panel were organised in the same way. Nor, even more pressingly, if there were not always two Conservative panellists, as is also the case on Any Questions.

In fact, with The Guardian and The Observer also pro-Coalition, such that Labour Party members in control of public bodies ought to have been required on pain of expulsion to ensure that all advertising was withheld from The Guardian in view of its pro-ConDem stance at the last General Election, the lack of balance is now quite beyond even the utterly scandalous point at which it stood in the last Parliament.

The Mirror Group titles, especially The People, which alone had the wit to endorse Ed Miliband for Labour Leader. Tribune. The Morning Star. It is from these that panellists should be drawn routinely. And it is in these that Labour Party members in control of public bodies ought to be required on pain of expulsion to ensure that all advertising is placed.