CANDIDATES from the three main parties are to face questions from the public at a hustings.
Organised by the Hay Festival, in partnership with The Brecon & Radnor Express, the event is taking place as part of the Winter Weekend festival.
Liberal Democrat Jane Dodds, who won the Brecon and Radnorshire seat from the Conservatives at an August by-election, will face her Tory and Labour challengers.
The Conservative candidate is Fay Jones while Labour’s candidate is Brecon town councillor Tom Davies.
Local author Oliver Bullough will chair the event.
The hustings take place at the festival’s Baillie Gifford Stage on its opening day, Thursday, November 28 and starts at 1pm.
The event is free but ticketed and tickets can be booked by calling the festival box office on 01497 822629. There is a welcome to all to attend the event and prepare questions for the candidates.
You can also book tickets on the festival website ;>by clicking here
As well as Brexit other issues that could feature include climate change and low pay.
Farming subsidy, rural transport, affordable housing, the NHS and social care are all the responsibility of the Welsh Government but how will MPs address them?
If you have questions you’d like to see the would be MPs answer then you can tweet them to @hayfestival and also use the hashtag #HayWinterWeekend.
Other highlights of the festival weekend include Cerys Matthews switching on Hay-on-Wye’s Christmas lights on Thursday evening.
The free switch-on event will take place between 5pm and 7pm in The Cheese Market, accompanied by carol singing and readings.
Families are invited to create their own colourful Christmas lanterns in Hay Public Library from 3.30pm, before joining the Hay Festival Winter Weekend procession at 5.30pm to the Market Square.
Booker Prize 2019 winner Bernardine Evaristo will talk about her polyphonic novel, Girl, Woman, Other, with chair of judges Peter Florence; and artist Jackie Morris launches the Welsh version of her masterpiece The Lost Words – Geiriau Diflanedig – with multi-award-winning poet Mererid Hopwood.
Laura Cumming will presents her memoir On Chapel Sands, and journalist Afua Hirsch and illustrator Henny Beaumont discuss their bestselling children’s book about Judge Lady Hale, Equal to Everything: Judge Brenda and the Supreme Court. In addition, a panel of local booksellers and friends lead tributes to the late Richard Booth, the ‘King of Hay’.
Archbishop of York John Sentamu will also presents his latest book, Wake Up to Advent!, while Fiona Evans leads a series of choir rehearsals over the weekend to close the Festival with a Hay Messiah.