TWO figures who have polarised opinion over Brexit will go head-to-head in Oxford tomorrow evening.

Labour peer and People's Vote supporter, Andrew Adonis, will debate with Nigel Farage, the former UKIP leader, at the Oxford Union.

They will feature alongside a selection of other speakers at the event, which is entitled ‘This House Supports The Deal’ and starts at 8.30pm.

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Mr Farage appeared at the Union to debate Britain's membership of the EU back in 2015 and called for a balanced discussion.

He said: "I'm looking forward to my return to the Oxford Union. I hope we can have an objective debate without name calling or infantile stupidity."

The line-up had been kept secret from Union members until recently, but Lord Adonis broke the news in a tweet on Sunday.

He said: “I’m debating Nigel Farage at the Oxford Union on Friday. Can’t wait.”

It promises to be a lively debate, with Mr Farage previously calling the anti-Brexit figure a ‘twisting little weasel' over his calls for a second referendum.

The event comes four days before MPs vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal and three weeks before the UK is set to leave the EU.

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The Union had kept quiet about the debate, with even the date unclear until recently. For weeks, a 'Brexit debate' was scheduled for today on the Union's website, but it has now been changed.

Also speaking are Rory Stewart MP, the prisons minister, and Henry Newman, director of Open Europe, a non-partisan think tank.

The Union's chief of staff and consultative committee chair, Amber Seaward and James Dix, are set to speak, while two more student speakers are unconfirmed.

The organisation hosted debates prior to the European Economic Community referendum in 1975 and the 2016 Brexit vote.

It wrote on Facebook: “This debate will, therefore, conclude the trilogy of timely momentous debates regarding the United Kingdom and the European integration project at the Oxford Union.”