Past 'Grillees' have included Rooney Anand, Jeffrey Archer, Martin Bell, Luciana Berger MP, Henry Bolton, Robert Buckland, Vince Cable MP, Tim Campbell, David Campbell-Bannerman, Douglas Carswell MP, Sir Bill Cash, Shami Chakrabarti, Ken Clarke MP, Piers Corbyn, John Crace, Caroline Criado-Perez, Tracey Crouch MP, Simon Danczuk MP, Lord Dobbs, Nigel Farage, Julian Fellowes, Frederick Forsyth, Mike Gatting, Chris Grayling, Damian Green, Lord Peter Hain, Margaret Hodge MP, Graham Jones MP, Mark Francois, Mark Lee, Lord (Anthony) Lester, Ken Livingstone, Jon Moulton, Eleanor Mills, Tom Newton Dunn, Lord David Owen, Suzi Quatro, Prof Philip Thomas, Esther Rantzen, John Redwood, Alec Salmond, Emma Sayle, Vaughan Smith, David Starkey, Carole Stone, Peter Tatchell, Richard Tice, Melissa Todd, Chukka Umunna, Toby Young.​

Mark Francois, MP

Our last guest for 2025 was Mark Francois.  A full house enjoyed a lively debate with Mark; a Conservative Member of Parliament for Rayleigh and Wickford since 2001, re-elected in 2024 with a 25,000 reduction in his majority., He has been Shadow Minister for Defence, Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence, Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Minister of State for Communities and Resilience, Minister for Portsmouth at theDepartment for Communities and Local Government.  In 2018, he was appointed deputy chair and de facto whip of the eurosceptic European Research Group (ERG) by chair Jacob Rees-Mogg.  He was a critic of the leadership of Theresa May during her time as leader of the Conservative Party. In March 2020 he became the Chair of the ERG.

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