Question Time 15th October 2026
The Panel:
Stephen Kinnock (Labour)
Mims Davies (Conservative)
James Evans (Reform UK)
Delyth Jewell (Plaid Cymru)
George Monbiot (Writer & commentator)
Venue: Brecon
Stephen Kinnock is a hereditary trougher. The Labour MP for Aberafon and current Secretary of State for Wales is the son of former Labour leader Neil Gordon Kinnock, Barron Kinnock, a one-time commissioner and vice president of the European Commission. The 56-year-old’s mother was the late Glenys Elizabeth Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, a member of the European Parliament and former co-president of the African, Caribbean and Pacific-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
Stephen’s wife is Helle Thorning-Schmidt, prime minister of Denmark between 2011 and 2015, and a graduate in the Danish equivalent of Politics, Philosophy and Economics. The comrades Thorning-Schmidt-Kinnock educate their children privately and have held an odd mix of Danish and Swiss residency for tax (avoidance) purposes. Both are members of the World Economic Forum, with Helle having co-chaired its annual meeting in Davos.
A Modern Languages graduate of Queens’ College, Cambridge, with an MA in European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Stephen went on to secure a series of non-jobs through his family connections. These included roles as a research assistant at the European Parliament and various positions at the British Council. He entered the House of Commons in 2015.
Not quite her real name – Miriam Jane Alice Davies – Mims Davies is, despite being Conservative MP for East Grinstead and Uckfield, the Shadow Secretary of State for Wales. A BBC sort, she was educated at the Royal Russel School (£60,000 per annum) and Swansea University, where she graduated in Politics and International Relations. After a stint in radio, including with the Corporation, the 51-year-old moved into ‘communications’ before being elected to Westminster in 2015.
James Oswald David Evans defected from the Tory Party to Reform UK in January of this year. This week’s London bot propaganda interference with Reform UK is a spoiler documentary secretly filmed by ITV News’ investigative journalism team, ITV Exposure. Reported by Daniel Hewitt, ITV’s Investigations Editor, it involves undercover reporters filming councillors and candidates during election campaigns. Hewitt being a London bubble career leftie who has never had a job outside metropolitan media. I wonder what he’d expose during clandestine filming down at the mosque or in the local immigrant ghetto?
Returning to the London media propaganda bot that is Question Time, James Evans has been a member of the Senedd since 2021, first for Brecon and Radnorshire and then, from 2026, for Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd. His present role is as Shadow Cabinet Minister for Health, Prevention and Sport.
Delyth Non Jewell is a Plaid Cymru representative to the Senedd and Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health. *deep breath* The 39-year-old represents Blaenau Gwent Caerffili Rhymni, grew up in Ystrad Mynach, attended Ysgol Bro Allta and Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni schools and has been president of Dafydd ap Gwily (something to do with Welsh poetry?).
Thankfully, after that she studied English at St Hugh’s College, Oxford and Celtic studies at the city’s Jesus College. There followed a predictable Cook’s tour of political research and charidee positions, including a spell at the vile ActionAid.
George Monbiot (not his full name, George Joshua Richard Monbiot) was born into privilege at Peppard House, an 1836 Georgian mansion set in 1.7 Berkshire acres complete with orchard, paddock, small field and shelter for a pony. Valued nowadays at a cool £3.5 million. George’s mother was Rosalie, an author, Chairwoman of the Royal Berkshire Ambulance Trust and one-time leader of South Oxfordshire District Council. The daughter of Conservative MP Gresham Cooke CBE, her February 1962 marriage featured in the wedding pages of The Tattler.
The groom was food industry supremo Raymond Monbiot CBE, one-time chairman of Campbell’s Soup. A regular contributor to Meat and Poultry News, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Butchers and a keen Tory. The Westminster old boy (£70,000 pa) and London Business School graduate served on the party’s board and chaired the Conservative Conference in the year 2000.
George attended Stowe (£58,000 pa), before Brasenose College, Oxford, where he read Zoology. A career in journalism specialising in climate change, the environment and biodiversity was to follow. A Guardian contributor, the 63-year-old’s published works include Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea, and Human Life, and Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning.
Puffins concerned about chopped-up trees being mushed into paper will be pleased to read that George’s other great work, The Age of Consent: A Manifesto For a New World Order, sits in 364,919th place in the Amazon bestsellers chart, a forest-saving 310,598 places behind the Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom.
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Question one was about having an honest conversation about rejoining the EU.
Yes, said Stephen Kinnock, ten years on it’s clear that Brexit has done more harm than good. Exports of goods are down – what about services, Steven? See above: the EU made his extended family multi-millionaires. The Kinnock family are the Man City of Brussels politics. The forthcoming Brussels summit is an opportunity to surrender to the EU, was Kinnock’s subtext.
James Evans disagreed; no one is talking about the EU down at the pub. The issue divided the country once, now we need appointments with doctors, education, jobs, and to make the best out of Brexit through a global Britain not shackled to Brussels.
An audience member pointed out we haven’t got the Brexit we wanted – to applause. The EU is crumbling. Another – the consequences of COVID and war in Ukraine shouldn’t be used as excuses to rejoin. A third – the EU is a corrupt old boys network (old boyos network?). Stephen Kinnock’s family have done well out of the European Union. She’s been reading my prep!
Kinnock muttered to the La Bruce bot that he wanted to come back in. La Bruce said she would, before turning to George Monbiot.
‘There’s a reason why Russia tried to intervene in the Brexit vote …’ began hopeless George – the Tottenham Hotspur of British politics. Off the Brussels bot went. We’ve heard it all before. Laughable. The Brexit derangement syndrome was high.
But years of argument and paralysis, wondered the Chair? 59% of us want to rejoin, responded George. Hold on, that’s what the Remainers told us about the original referendum – which they promptly lost.
Not to worry, George has already won the referendum and done all the renegotiations, and was able to tell the audience that we’ll be back in in two years.
An audience member wanted to talk about the ‘lower levels’. He said he was fortunate and had moved to France in 2001. Hang on, what’s he doing on Question Time from Brecon? Is he an EU plant bot? And came back in 2023. Oh. Although, Brexit can’t be too bad then if they returned from France seven years after the referendum.
La Bruce Bot allowed him to monologue. People who want to go travelling for more than 90 days, he began. A three-month holiday? Is he a Kinnock?! The entire population of France should have been allowed to vote in the Brexit referendum, he concluded. Yes, he’s a Kinnock.
Speaking of the ‘lower levels’ brings us to Girl War. La Bruce was in Midland Maroon, Mims in something pilfered from a provincial am-dram pantomime wardrobe, and Delyth was wrapped in curtains liberated from an Antwerp brothel in the 1970s.
An Oirish in a gillet spoke. She’d got a big shock having to hand over her passport at Dublin Port. Those of us who were in Ulster during the Troubles got bigger shocks than that from the Oirish, love.
She was disabled, but apparently only from below the mouth. She liked to take her horses back and forth over the water, and Brexit didn’t help. She had to pay extra money to take her horses to the Continent for competitions. Well. Go. And. Live. There. Then.
‘My horses aren’t a luxury; it’s a lifestyle for me.’ Dear God, is this another Kinnock?
She was allowed to monologue too. Climate change. A united Ireland. Garvaghy Road. Perhaps the disability is an overactive tongue?
Delyth thought Brexit was a disaster and was to blame for everything. The Brexit derangement needle reached the Celtic fringe zone.
Mims wondered why, therefore, at this geopolitically dangerous time, Plaid Cymru wanted to leave the United Kingdom. It feels mad. We’d be going back to taking rules. That’s what we do now, interrupted George. Not so. Cutting VAT to zero on electricity, subsidising the (Welsh) steel industry, lower US tariffs, etc etc etc. We need to be talking about the cost of living and defending ourselves, said Mims wisely.
La Bruce returned to Kinnock, who described the audience members’ comments about his family as ‘a disgraceful personal slur’. Listen to her! He repeated the word disgraceful. The audience member raised her hand but was ignored by La Bruce.
But it was Kinnock who asked her to mention a Brexit benefit. The audience member was keen to have a go back, but Kinnock talked over her and began referencing ‘small boats’. La Bruce raised her hands to restore order and shouted, ‘Is this what it’s going to be like?’
The lady in the audience allowed herself to be distracted to farming rather than sticking to skewering the Troughers. However, she surprised this reviewer by making the salient point that at last we are able to make our own farming policies rather than being stuck with those of 28 other countries.
So salient that Kinnock, an expert on Welsh farming from his champagne socialist’s Kilburn townhouse, tried to mutter over her, while La Bruce insisted upon moving on.
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