The SNP's candidate for Aberdeen South and Westminster group leader, Stephen Flynn, is set to represent the SNP at the BBC's first general election debate.

Mr Flynn will go up against - if polls are to be believed - the future Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, as well as Tory cabinet minister Penny Mordaunt.

Nigel Farage, who recently decided to stand in his eighth election after originally saying he wouldn't represents Reform UK.

Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrats), Carla Denyer (Greens) and Rhun ap Iorweth (Plaid Cymru) make up the rest of the panel.

Mishal Husain will host the 90-minute debate, broadcast by the BBC at 7.30PM this evening.

Debate schedule:

A series of TV debates are taking part in the run-up the June 4:

  • 12/06 - Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer will be asked to "pitch" to voters in an interview on Sky News
  • 13/06 - ITV's Julie Etchingham will moderate a debate between representatives from the Conservative Party, Labour Party, SNP, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, Green Party and Reform UK
  • 20/06 - A Question Time special, featuring Rishi Sunak, Sir Keir Starmer, John Swinney and Sir Ed Davey
  • 26/06 - Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer go head-to-head the final time before the election

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