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  • proper noun government, politics a time during a sitting of parliament wherein Members of Parliament ask questions of Government Ministers (including the Prime Minister) which they are obliged to answer.

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Examples

  • - Dick Morris went on a BBC political panel show called Question Time (which, by the way, is I think by far the best political chat show out there).

    Quote Of The Day: Dick Morris To Flee United States If Hillary Wins! 2009

  • It all seems a long way from Question Time, which is the series you're probably best known for.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • The BNP has defended the performance, labelling Question Time

    Top stories from Times Online 2009

  • The BNP has defended the performance, labelling Question Time

    Top stories from Times Online 2009

  • Tweets bring back the olden days … - Those of my readers who are outside the UK will have been spared the whole 'Question Time' thing: the national debate about whether the head of the British National Party - the nearest thing Britain gets to far-right politics - should have been allowed to appear on the BBC's Question Time debating programme.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • Tweets bring back the olden days … - Those of my readers who are outside the UK will have been spared the whole 'Question Time' thing: the national debate about whether the head of the British National Party - the nearest thing Britain gets to far-right politics - should have been allowed to appear on the BBC's Question Time debating programme.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • Tweets bring back the olden days … - Those of my readers who are outside the UK will have been spared the whole 'Question Time' thing: the national debate about whether the head of the British National Party - the nearest thing Britain gets to far-right politics - should have been allowed to appear on the BBC's Question Time debating programme.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • Tweets bring back the olden days … - Those of my readers who are outside the UK will have been spared the whole 'Question Time' thing: the national debate about whether the head of the British National Party - the nearest thing Britain gets to far-right politics - should have been allowed to appear on the BBC's Question Time debating programme.

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

  • However, Question Time is a political programme that surely has a right to remain, as Dimbleby put it, "around the swirl of Westminster life".

    Idolising bad boys makes Charlies of us all | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • Having trained on the Richmond & Twickenham Times group of newspapers in south-west London, then owned by Question Time presenter David Dimbleby, Bilmes joined Condé Nast in 1997 as a subeditor on the now-defunct GQ Active.

    Alex Bilmes: 'I'm a total starfucker' 2011

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