Cross Question with Iain Dale

Ali Miraj sits in and is joined on Cross Question by SNP MP and women and equalities spokesperson Kirsten Oswald, social entrepreneur and former Johnson adviser Samuel Kasumu, barrister and ex-Tory MP Jessica Harrington and POLITICO's Stefan Boscia.

Ali Miraj sits in and is joined on Cross Question by Labour MP Khalid Mahmood, Conservative MP Bob Seely, psychotherapist Lucy Beresford and Matthew Lesh from the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker, Labour MP and shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson, crossbench peer and disability rights campaigner Tanni Grey-Thompson and Mail on Sunday columnist Dan Hodges.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and foreign affairs committee chair Alicia Kearns, Labour MP Andy McDonald, Sunday Telegraph columnist Janet Daley and pollster Joe Twyman.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP David Simmonds, comedian Ava Vidal, free speech advocate Baroness Fox and Labour MP Sam Tarry.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Telegraph political editor Ben Riley-Smith, Lib Dem MP Christine Jardine, Conservative MP Jo Gideon and Labour campaigner and former MP Parmjit Dhanda.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and former minister Paul Scully, Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth and political commentator Jo-Anne Nadler.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are SNP MP and former broadcaster John Nicolson, Conservative MP and energy minister Andrew Bowie, pollster Scarlett Maguire and comedian Dom Joly.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour's Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones, Bloomberg's Ailbhe Rea, Conservative MP Craig Whittaker and former Conservative comms director Giles Kenningham.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Lib Dem MP Munira Wilson, social policy analyst Rakib Ehsan and Guardian columnist Zoe Williams.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour's Stella Creasy, Conservative Rachel Maclean, Lib Dem Lord Razall and Luke Tryl from the More in Common think tank, which aims to tackle social divisions.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and deputy chairman Angela Richardson, SDLP MP Claire Hanna, historian Tessa Dunlop and acting editor at ConservativeHome Henry Hill.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative former foreign minister Sir Alan Duncan, Labour's leader in the House of Lords Baroness Smith, author and broadcaster Matthew Syed and Whitehall editor at the Financial Times Lucy Fisher.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Imam Ajmal Masroor, Lib Dem director of communications Baroness Grender, barrister and former Conservative MP Jerry Hayes and the Spectator's James Heale.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative peer Lord Marland, City AM's Alys Denby, Labour candidate Kevin Craig and political commentator Jonathan Lis.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Conservative minister David Gauke, political commentator Scarlett MccGwire, chair of the Jewish Labour Movement Mike Katz and the Mail's deputy political editor Harriet Line.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are broadcaster Gavin Esler, author and former Labour official Richard Power-Sayeed, businesswoman and former Cameron adviser Sarah Southern and political commentator Michael Brown - who used to be a Conservative MP.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are author Jonn Elledge, former Conservative MP Angela Knight, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union Matt Wrack and columnist Grant Tucker.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Olney, Lawyer and Activist Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, Conservative Peer Baroness Tina Stowell and Director of the Reform Think Tank, Charlotte Pickles.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are the former Conservative Cabinet Minister Justine Greening, Green Party peer Baroness Jenny Jones, the chair of the Dignity in Dying campaign Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain and the Daily Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour's Shadow Cabinet Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds, Conservative peer Lord Andrew Robathan, Spiked Online columnist Ella Whelan and Momentum co-founder James Schneider.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour's shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh, Conservative MP and former minister Brendan Clarke-Smith, Mail on Sunday columnist Dan Hodges and political correspondent for the Independent Zoë Grünewald.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are government minister Esther McVey, SNP MP and home affairs spokesperson Alison Thewliss, non-affiliated peer Baroness Hoey and Liberal Democrat campaigner Mathew Hulbert.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are writer and director of the British Future think tank on immigration and integration Sunder Katwala, the Spectator's Cindy Yu, comedian Njambi McGrath and former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and former sports minister Tracey Crouch, Lib Dem MP and home affairs spokesperson Alistair Carmichael, the Telegraph's Camilla Turner and political commentator Matthew Stadlen.

Iain Dale is joined on Cross Question by economist and author Grace Blakeley, Labour MP Dame Angela Eagle, investigative journalist and former speechwriter for David Cameron Ian Birrell and Conservative MP Alexander Stafford.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and chair of the Treasury Committee Harriet Baldwin, Labour MP Charlotte Nichols, Green Party candidate for Mayor of London Zoe Garbett and lawyer Natasha Hausdorff.

Joining Iain Dale for this Budget Day special Cross Question panel are economist Ann Pettifor who co-authored the Green New Deal and used to advise John McDonnell, Shevaun Haviland from the British Chambers of Commerce, author and Oxford University economist Linda Yueh and financial entrepreneur and former Bank of England adviser Roger Gewolb.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and chair of the One Nation group of backbench Tories Damian Green, Labour MP Nadia Whittome, social commentator and author Nels Abbey and Annabel Denham from the Telegraph.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are SNP MP and former Westminster leader Ian Blackford, Conservative MP and former minister Vicky Ford, barrister and broadcaster Hashi Mohamed and Reform UK's candidate for Mayor of London Howard Cox.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are housing minister and Conservative MP Lee Rowley, Novara Media's Ash Sarkar, shadow Cabinet Office minister and Labour peer Baroness Chapman and Adam Hawksbee from the Onward think tank.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP Katherine Fletcher, political commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, former race adviser to Boris Johnson Samuel Kasumu and Lib Dem MP and chief whip Wendy Chamberlain.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are political sketchwriter for the Daily Mail Quentin Letts, Conservative MP Anna Firth, chair of the Labour Muslim Network Ali Milani and Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are broadcaster Sir Trevor Phillips, Conservative MP Matt Warman, social activist Nimco Ali and Labour MP Barry Gardiner.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and former minister Sir Conor Burns, SNP MP and cabinet office spokesperson Kirsty Blackman, Sunday Telegraph columnist Zoe Strimpel and Rob Blackie, the Lib Dem candidate for Mayor of London.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Labour MP and minister Caroline Flint, Conservative MP and chair of the environment committee Sir Robert Goodwill, LBC presenter Natasha Devon and commentator Angela Epstein.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative police and crime commissioner for Bedfordshire Festus Akinbusoye, broadcaster and psychotherapist Lucy Beresford, Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate Josh Babarinde and Emma Revell from the Centre for Policy Studies think tank.

Joining Iain Dale on a special edition of Cross Question focusing on foreign affairs are former UK ambassador to the US Lord Darroch, defence and security expert Professor Michael Clarke, journalist, broadcaster and founder of the China Dialogue Trust Isabel Hilton and former Middle East minister Alistair Burt.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are broadcaster and DJ Liz Kershaw, Josh Simons from the Labour Together think tank, independent London mayoral candidate Rayhan Haque and political commentator Suzanne Evans.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Green Party peer and former leader Baroness Bennett, Conservative MP and former chief whip Wendy Morton, broadcaster Paul Mason and political commentator Benedict Spence.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative peer and former cabinet minister Baroness Morgan, Labour MP and former leadership contender Rebecca Long-Bailey, FT journalist Jim Pickard and businessman David Buik.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Liberal Democrat MP and foreign affairs spokesperson Layla Moran, Conservative MP and member of the home affairs committee Tim Loughton, Sun journalist Noa Hoffman and broadcaster Steve Richards.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Barry Gardiner, LBC presenter Rachel Johnson, environment minister and Conservative MP Robbie Moore and journalist Michael Crick.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and leader of the 'Common Sense Group' of Tory MPs Sir John Hayes, Labour MP and Party Chair Anneliese Dodds, political commentator Anita Boateng and Ian Dunt, author of 'How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't'.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are transparency campaigner and leader of the True and Fair Party Gina Miller, Conservative MP and former defence minister Sir Alec Shelbrooke, Labour MP Kim Johnson and Sebastian Payne from the Onward think tank.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Guardian columnist and environmentalist George Monbiot, Conservative MP and former business minister Dean Russell, SNP MP Kirsten Oswald and Greg Swenson of Republicans Overseas UK.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are journalist and broadcaster Anne McElvoy, Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood, Labour MP Sarah Champion and the Mirror's political editor John Stevens.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Guardian columnist and former editor of The Times Sir Simon Jenkins, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats Daisy Cooper, Conservative MP and former justice secretary Sir Robert Buckland and human rights barrister Charlotte Proudman.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Business Minister and Conservative peer Lord Offord, Rachel Cunliffe of the New Statesman, former Corbyn policy advisor Andrew Fisher and political commentator Tim Montgomerie, plus Natasha Clark providing updates as MPs vote on the Government's Rwanda plan.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Conservative MP John Penrose, boss of the press regulator IPSO Lord Faulks and human rights lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak, Labour's Shadow Skills Minister Seema Malhotra, Conservative Party Deputy Chair Craig Tracey and Sam Lister, political editor of the Express.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are The Spectator's Kate Andrews, Green Party Deputy Leader Zack Polanski, former Channel 4 News boss Dorothy Byrne and Conservative peer Baroness Stowell.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and Minister for Disabled People Mims Davies, Labour's Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones, LBC presenter and journalist Oli Dugmore and entrepreneur Emma Sinclair.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and former Post Office minister Paul Scully, Independent Mayor of the North of Tyne Combined Authority Jamie Driscoll, writer and broadcaster Christina Patterson and pollster Scarlett Maguire.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former comms adviser to Boris Johnson Jo Tanner, barrister Sam Fowles, LabourList's Tom Belger and commentator Phoebe Arslanagić-Little.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are the Green Party's Siân Berry, journalist John Rentoul, Conservative peer and pollster Lord Hayward and political commentator Sarah Southern.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour candidate and former Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander, LBC presenter Ali Miraj, trade unionist Mary Bousted and Editor of City AM Andy Silvester.

Joining Iain on Cross Question this evening are Conservative peer and former Refugees Minister Lord Harrington, SNP MP and culture spokesperson John Nicolson, Director of the centre-right Reform think tank Charlotte Pickles and the New Statesman's Harry Lambert.

Plus: an interview with Policing Minister Chris Philp on the Rwanda Safety Bill vote.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP Bob Seely, comedian and journalist Ava Vidal, businessman Paul Drechsler and Labour MP Beth Winter.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and Defence Select Committee Chair Robert Courts, Labour's Shadow Environment Secretary Steve Reed, broadcaster Afua Hagan and comedian Geoff Norcott.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP Chris Clarkson, political commentator Ella Whelan, writer for The Times Oliver Kamm and Labour MP Rachael Maskell.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Plaid Cymru's Westminster Leader Liz Saville-Roberts, Bloomberg's Head of Politics and Economics Stephanie Flanders, Conservative MP Flick Drummond and civil liberties campaigner Silkie Carlo.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour's Stella Creasy, former No10 Comms Director Guto Harri, DUP MP Jim Shannon and Observer columnist Martha Gill.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative Party Deputy Chairman Brendan Clarke-Smith, Labour Shadow Foreign Office Minister Catherine West, economist Vicky Pryce and ConservativeHome's Angus Parsad-Wyatt.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are LGBT+ safeguarding campaigner Jayne Ozanne, Labour MP Khalid Mahmood, Conservative MP Richard Graham and free speech campaigner Baroness Fox.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are the University of Oxford economist Dr Linda Yueh, the Liberal Democrat MP and housing spokesperson Helen Morgan, the imam and broadcaster Ajmal Masroor and the Conservative MP Duncan Baker.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are the Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer, the Conservative MP and Nottinghamshire County Council leader Ben Bradley, the editor of the centre-right news commentary site CapX Alys Denby and the Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour peer Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, political commentator Tim Montgomerie, barrister Chris Daw KC and the Conservative MP Greg Smith.

Ali Miraj sits in and is joined on Cross Question by columnist and former Corbyn Director of Policy Andrew Fisher, The Telegraph's Annabel Denham and Reform UK Deputy Leader Ben Habib.

Ali Miraj sits in and is joined on Cross Question by Labour's Shadow Culture Secretary Thangam Debbonaire, Conservative MP Nickie Aiken, Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley and Novara Media journalist Michael Walker.

Ali Miraj sits in and is joined on Cross Question by former Lib Dem Leader Sir Vince Cable, Conservative peer Baroness Neville-Jones, Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee & ConservativeHome Deputy Editor Henry Hill.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are PoliticsHome political reporter Nadine Batchelor-Hunt, Editor-in-Chief of the UnHerd site Freddie Sayers, Labour's Leader in the House of Lords Baroness Smith and Conservative MP David Simmonds.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP Heather Wheeler, New European Editor-at-Large Matt d'Ancona, Labour MP Barry Gardiner and broadcaster Angela Epstein.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour's Lucy Powell, businessman Juergen Maier, Conservative peer and former Health Minister Lord Bethell and the FT's Whitehall Editor Lucy Fisher.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are political commentator Salma Shah, Green Party Deputy Leader Zack Polanski, Sam Freedman from the Institute for Government and former Conservative MP Jessica Harrington.

Joining Iain Dale on LBC this evening are Mail columnist Sarah Vine, Conservative MP Sir John Redwood, Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Munira Wilson and Zoë Grünewald from the New Statesman.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP Tim Loughton, former Labour MP Mary Creagh, LBC presenter and mental health campaigner Natasha Devon & Will Atkinson from ConservativeHome.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour campaigner Ali Milani, author Rachel Shabi, Conservative peer Lord Jackson and assistant editor at the Spectator Cindy Yu.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are LBC's Washington Correspondent Simon Marks, Conservative MP Jo Gideon, SNP MP Alyn Smith and political commentator and Lib Dem councillor Mathew Hulbert.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Chair of the Jewish Labour Movement Mike Katz, barrister and author Hashi Mohamed, political reporter at The Sun Noa Hoffman and Conservative peer Lord Greenhalgh.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Crossbench peer and Vice-President of the CBI Lord Bilimoria, Liberal Democrat MP and women and equalities spokesperson Christine Jardine, Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain and former Conservative MP and Transport Minister Steve Norris.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are LBC presenter Rachel Johnson, POLITICO's Jack Blanchard, Labour MP Charlotte Nichols and Conservative MP and Chair of the Treasury Select Committee Harriett Baldwin.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP Dame Andrea Leadsom, Guardian columnist Zoe Williams, Liberal Democrat Chief Whip Wendy Chamberlain and political commentator Benedict Spence.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Labour Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, Jewish Chronicle Editor Jake Wallis Simons, Conservative peer Lord Moylan and Mike Buckley, who works on UK-EU relations.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question, live from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, are Labour Shadow Cabinet member Nick Thomas-Symonds, Daily Express political journalist Christian Calgie, former Labour MP Luciana Berger & The Guardian columnist Owen Jones.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question, live from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, are Labour MP Sarah Jones, the Fire Brigades Union's General Secretary Matt Wrack & political strategist John McTernan.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are True and Fair Party Leader Gina Miller, Conservative peer Lord Marland, commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and LBC's Political Editor Natasha Clark.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question, live from the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, are Tory MP Peter Bone, the Mail on Sunday's Deputy Political Editor Anna Mikhailova & the political pollster James Johnson.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question, live from the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, are Tory MP Anthony Browne, social mobility campaigner and former Education Secretary Justine Greening & the Onward think-tank's director Sebastian Payne.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Green Party Leader Baroness Bennett, businessman Sir Martin Sorrell, Conservative peer Baroness Fall and Akiko Hart, Interim-Director of the civil liberties organisation Liberty.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Crosshbench peer and former diplomat Lord Darroch, former Boris Johnson adviser Alex Crowley, foreign policy expert Sophia Gaston and journalist Jo Phillips.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Crossbench peer and legendary Paralympian Baroness Grey-Thompson, social commentator and former adviser to Boris Johnson on race issues Samuel Kasumu, Emma Revell from the centre right-think tank the Centre for Policy Studies and political commentator and former Labour adviser Tom Hamilton.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP and former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, Conservative MP Angela Richardson, former Telegraph editor Lord Moore and Founder of the Oasis Charitable Trust and Baptist minister Steve Chalke.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are comedian and writer Dom Joly, Conservative MP and Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Alicia Kearns, Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh and Matthew Lesh of the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are the SNP's Ian Blackford, historian Dr Tessa Dunlop, Conservative MP Bim Afolami and musician turned podcaster Winston Marshall.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are green energy entrepreneur Dale Vince, social activist and commentator Nimco Ali, Conservative MP Vicky Ford and Labour MP Barry Gardiner.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and former Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland, Independent Metro Mayor of North Tyne Jamie Driscoll, Novara Media's Ash Sarkar and columnist Grant Tucker.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour's Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry, Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis, journalist and broadcaster David Aaronovitch and Sunday Telegraph columnist Zoe Strimpel.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative Party Chairman Greg Hands, Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran, human rights barrister Dr Charlotte Proudman and Dan Hodges from the Mail on Sunday.