Ever fancied a clash with a bona fide Tory battleaxe?

Well now’s the chance, buddy, since that great bastion of liberal-mindedness, The Daily Mail, has scheduled a live webchat with none other than Christine Hamilton. Let’s give you some background…

Ranking second only to the scary scientific experiment that was Thatcher, Hamilton is known for her bolshy, mad-as-chips Englishness and has displayed great fortitude over the years in dealing with the fallout dished up thanks to her bumbling hubby, Neil.

The amiable if not-to-be-trusted Neil Hamilton, her shadowy husband, is the former Tory MP for Tatton, having lost his ’safe’ seat to anti-sleaze candidate Martin Bell following the cash for questions scandal of the mid-1990s.

Hamilton then lost a court case where he tried to clear his name and ended up being liable for costs of around £2m (although Hamilton, described as ‘a man of straw’, was by then being supported by a group of 20 unnamed MPs who pledged money to his legal fund). Brutal, all round.

The Hamilton’s were broke, so what did they do? They adopted the TV as their saviour of course, and started soaking up appearance fees to get back on track.

And TV, over the past 8 years or so, is broadly speaking what they’ve been up to.

They started off on a very weird episode of Have I Got News For You (the mushrooms that this particular viewer had consumed at the time didn’t help) and have since had their very own Louis Theroux show, among others.

Christine also appeared on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, where she won over many a common prole with her motherly ways.

Rumours that Neil Hamilton is due to take to the octagon in Ultimate Fighting Championship have yet to be verified, though that’s prime time material and worthy of pay-per-view. Don King, where art thou?

A weirdo sex scandal occured in 2001 where the Hamiltons were accused of various unsavoury things, but they were cleared and their accuser was subsequently jailed. And now, by God, there’s a book, by Christine, apparently written with ‘candour’.

We’re sure this webchat on the Daily Mail website is just a happy coincidence, rather than a marketing arrangement, but either way, lovers and loathers of these British eccentrics should drop into www.dailymail.co.uk tomorrow in time for a 2pm start.

You can send your questions directly to the thought police here: community@dailymailonline.co.uk.