Iain Dale - The Whole Show

Farmers protest in Westminster and 1000 days of war in Ukraine

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Lib Dem home affairs spokesperson Lisa Smart, Conservative shadow housing minister David Simmonds, broadcaster Afua Hagan & Charlotte Pickles from the REFORM think tank.

What's the risk of further escalation with Russia? And are celebrity charity campaigns problematic?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening Labour MP Catherine Atkinson, barrister and former Conservative MP Jerry Hayes, historian Tessa Dunlop and Alys Denby from City AM.

Should we take Gazan refugees?

Plus, experts talk you through the humanitarian crisis in Sudan.

And are fireworks harmful to pets?

Should the NHS get its own version of Ofsted? And why are so many young people not in work?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are energy minister and Labour MP Michael Shanks, political commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and former Conservative strategist Samuel Kasumu.

Do you have any sympathy for Justin Welby? And in the third hour, can assisted dying be implemented safely?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Guardian columnist Zoe Williams, Guido Fawkes founder Paul Staines, Conservative MP Harriet Cross and Lib Dem MP Luke Taylor.

Should the Archbishop of Canterbury resign? And should we ban SUVs in city centres?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and shadow Wales secretary Mims Davies, co-leader of the Green Party Carla Denyer, Labour MP Charlotte Nichols and businessman Sir Martin Sorrell.

Should David Lammy publicly apologise to Donald Trump for his past critical comments?

Question Marks with Simon Marks: Simon takes your calls on the US election result.

Plus should adopted children automatically see their biological parents regularly?

Trump wins - why? And what does it mean for the world?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former FT editor Lionel Barber, playwright Bonnie Greer and former Obama digital strategist Matthew McGregor. (Our Trump-supporting panellist had to drop out shortly before broadcast).

Voters go to the polls across the United States

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Green campaigner and brother of Bernie Sanders Larry Sanders, Republicans Overseas UK chair Greg Swenson, foreign policy expert Elisabeth Braw and broadcaster Tom Rivers.

Is it fair for tuition fees to go up and can a four-day working week work?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening, ahead of polling day in the US election, are former British ambassador to the US Lord Darroch, Jennifer Ewing from Republicans Overseas, John Scardino from Democrats Abroad and Sunday Telegraph columnist Zoe Strimpel.

Should 'silent prayer' within abortion clinics' new 'buffer zones' be allowed?

Question Marks: Simon Marks takes your calls on the US election.

Is it curmudgeonly to think that Halloween celebrations are annoying and often anti-social too?

Are you a Budget winner or loser?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Independent MP and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Conservative MP and shadow education secretary Damian Hinds, economist and journalist Stephanie Flanders and luxury hotelier Sir Rocco Forte.

Can the UK put any pressure on Israel to allow UNRWA aid into Gaza? And is Donald Trump a fascist?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Gogglebox star turned Labour campaigner Josh Tapper, non-affiliated peer Claire Fox, Conservative MP Richard Holden and Plaid Cymru MP and Treasury spokesperson Ben Lake.

Will the Budget leave you worse off? And how bad is your social housing?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative peer and 'bionic lord' Craig Mackinlay, Labour MP Sarah Smith, Lib Dem MP Pippa Heylings and commentator David Goodhart.

Why is there so much shoplifting?

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi takes your calls on Islamphobia.

How do you deal with a cancer diagnosis?

Will unions get more freedom to strike - and can the PM possibly get along with President Trump, if he's reelected?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are chair of the Labour Women's Network nd former MP Thangam Debbonaire, Conservative MP and shadow business minister Jerome Mayhew, Liberal Democrat MP Jess Brown-Fuller and political commentator and former head of BBC Westminster Katy Searle.

More information reported about Chris Kaba's past and have you ever had to tell an elderly parent they shouldn't drive anymore?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Jake Richards, political commentator Jo Tanner, Conservative MP George Freeman and barrister Dr Sam Fowles.

Should Starmer open talks over reparations? And experts take your calls on osteoporosis.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Emily Thornberry, Reform UK MP and deputy leader Richard Tice, social mobility campaigner and former Conservative education secretary Justine Greening and rabbi and author Dr Jonathan Romain.

Is it smart to bring back HS2?

Plus, a phone in on poverty in modern Britain with Big Issue founder Lord Bird and campaigner Matthew Torbitt. And how widespread is the old-fashioned attitude that having children should somehow hold women back?

Controversy over England getting a German football manager & how do we fix our universities?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are shadow development minister and Conservative MP Dame Harriett Baldwin, Green MP Ellie Chowns, journalist and broadcaster Isabel Hilton and Henry Newman, former adviser to Boris Johnson.

Should we offer weight loss jabs to unemployed obese people? And how old is too old to have children?

Joining Iain on Cross Question this evening are businessman James Reed, Labour MP Jeevun Sandher, former Tory MP and minister Dame Andrea Leadsom and journalist Luke McGee.

Is the Labour government having to abandon its principles - and do we learn enough about black history?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Green Party deputy leader Zack Polanski, former Tory MP Anna Firth, long-time adviser to Nigel Farage Gawain Towler and Observer columnist Martha Gill.

The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Tzipi Hotovely, joins Iain for an exclusive LBC phone-in.

Was dumping James Cleverly a mistake by Tory MPs?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Stella Creasy, former Conservative MP and minister Steve Baker, broadcaster Jemma Forte and founder of ConservativeHome Tim Montgomerie.

Could the Tories possibly win the next election?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are leader of the House of Commons and Labour MP Lucy Powell, Conservative peer and former minister Lord Willetts, the Spectator's Cindy Yu and the Guardian's John Crace - whose new book 'Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10' is out this week.

How the October 7th attacks changed the world - and Robert Jenrick takes your calls

Iain is joined for Cross Question this evening by jeweller and businesswoman Kiki McDonough, Lib Dem chief whip and MP Wendy Chamberlain, Conservative MP and former chief whip Wendy Morton and home affairs commentator and former Yvette Cooper adviser Danny Shaw.

Do you support the decision to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius?

Holocaust historian Professor Sir Richard J. Evans takes your calls on his landmark new book.

Plus MPs are set to debate legalising assisted dying later this month.

How can the Tories make themselves relevant again?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are entrepreneur Robyn Scott, author and former Labour candidate Paul Richards, Conservative campaigner and broadcaster Albie Amankona and former Ed Miliband adviser Matthew Laza.

The international affairs analyst Sam Kiley joins Iain for in-depth coverage of Iran's missile attack on Israel.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening - along with Sam - are the former UK Middle East Minister Alistair Burt, the Israel-born journalist and author Rachel Shabi and the Liberal Democrats' Cabinet Office spokesperson Sarah Olney

If an Israeli invasion of Lebanon goes ahead, how should Britain and other western nations respond?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question, live from Birmingham - where the Conservative Party Conference is taking place - are the former Tory Cabinet Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the former Conservative policy advisor Tom Skinner and the pollster Scarlett Maguire.

Can the West have any influence on what Israel does?

The prospect of Israel invading Lebanon and Kemi Badenoch takes your calls

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Conservative Party Chairman Greg Hands, former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, economist and broadcaster Liam Halligan and the journalist and author Christina Patterson.

Are you convinced by the Prime Minister's pledge to rebuild the country?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question, live from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, are the Technology and Culture Minister Sir Chris Bryant, the University and College Union General Secretary Jo Grady and the newly-elected Labour MP Calvin Bailey.

What does the government need to do during this conference to make you feel more upbeat about the future under Labour?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question, live from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, this evening are the Paymaster General Nick Thomas-Symonds, the Communication Workers Union's General Secretary Dave Ward and the newly-elected Labour MP Mike Tapp.

What happens next between Israel and Lebanon?

Wes Streeting talks NHS reform and James Cleverly takes your calls on his campaign

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative peer Baroness Morgan, Lib Dem MP Josh Babarinde, businessman and finance commentator David Buik and political commentator and former Labour adviser Scarlett MccGwire.

Grant Shapps takes your calls on defence and Tom Tugendhat takes your calls on his campaign

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour peer Baroness Hodge, Conservative former MP Theresa Villiers, campaigner Jovan Owusu-Nepaul and broadcaster and former Number 10 comms adviser Guto Harri.

Is the sentence for Huw Edwards too lenient?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Tory former MP and minister Paul Scully, journalist and former Mirror editor Alison Phillips, Labour MP Barry Gardiner and businessman Steve Rigby.

With Councils struggling to cope with the rising cost of Special Educational Needs how are we supposed to fix this?

and are you glad to see the assisted dying bill introduced in the House of Lords?

Finally a delightful Open Phone-in to end the week

Is Netanyahu now personally damaging to Israel and its international reputation?

Joining Iain Dale for Cross Question are the Unison General Secretary Christina McAnea, the Conservative MP Andrew Rosindell, the newly-elected Green MP Dr Ellie Chowns, and The Times' senior political correspondent Geri Scott.

Should Labour think again on the two-child benefit cap?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are SNP chief whip Kirsty Blackman, newly-elected Lib Dem MP Lisa Smart, FT political editor George Parker and Sophia Gaston from the Policy Exchange think tank.

Question Marks: LBC's US correspondent takes your calls!

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative shadow transport minister Dr Kieran Mullan, Labour MP Josh Simons, political commentator Jo Phillips and Danny Sriskandarajah, chief executive of the New Economics Foundation think tank.

After the Leeds Riots, why do so many blame Multiculturalism?

and with Donald Trump saying he 'has god on his side'... What has god ever done for you?

Finally a delightful Open Phone-in to end the week

Are Starmer's plans to tackle illegal migration sensible?

Plus Nusrit Mehtab, Former Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police takes your calls...

Iain Dale hosts a special edition of Cross Question, with a panel made up entirely of newly-elected MPs: Labour's Satvir Kaur, the Conservatives' Lincoln Jopp, the Liberal Democrats' Bobby Dean and the Ulster Unionists' Robin Swann.

Joining Iain Dale for Cross Question are Conservative Peer Lord David Willetts, SDLP MP Claire Hanna, Political Editor for The Sunday Telegraph Camilla Turner and Oliver Kamm a writer for The Times

Joining Iain Dale for Cross Question are the Conservative MP Danny Kruger, freelance home affairs journalist Lizzie Dearden, newly-elected Labour MP Jake Richards and Emma Revell from the Centre for Policy Studies think-tank.

Should a Bank Holiday be held if England win Euro 2024? Plus Alastair Campbell joins Iain live in the studio to take your calls.

Should the new government prioritise improving our Armed Forces over other public services?

Joining Iain Dale for Cross Question are the Alba Party leader and former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, the Conservatives' Shadow Science Secretary Andrew Griffith, former Labour political strategist John McTernan and Republicans Overseas UK spokesperson Jennifer Ewing.

How accommodating should Wes Streeting be towards striking junior doctors?

Joining Iain Dale for Cross Question are the Trades Union Congress' General Secretary Paul Nowak, the former Conservative Education Secretary Justine Greening, Labour MP Rachael Maskell and Conservative peer and former Security Minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones.

Are Labour right not to challenge Netanyahu's Arrest Warrant?

Joining Iain Dale for Cross Question are the editor of The Spectator Fraser Nelson, Liberal Democrat MP and frontbencher Christine Jardine, Conservative MP and former minister George Freeman and the journalist and broadcaster Paul Mason.

Your reaction to the general election result

What will Labour's first hundred days look like?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Conservative MP Sir Bob Neill, former Labour policy adviser Andrew Fisher, City AM's Alys Denby and pollster Joe Twyman.

Will Starmer be a 'part-time PM'?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Novara Media's Ash Sarkar, Conservative peer Lord Bethell, Liberal Democrat Sarah Olney and former editor of the Financial Times Lionel Barber.

Smaller parties take your questions!

Iain Dale is joined on Cross Question by political commentator Femi Oluwole, Conservative peer Lord Jackson, former Labour comms adviser Scarlett MccGwire and historian and columnist Tim Stanley.

What good reason is there for Joe Biden NOT to drop out of US Presidential race?

Podcaster and former Tory MP Rory Stewart takes your calls!

Plus, phone-ins on Trump vs Biden and Ed Davey wanting to ban smoking but legalise cannabis.

Should politicians be banned from gambling on elections?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are crossbench peer and businessman Lord Bilimoria, freelance journalist Zoë Grünewald, national chair of the Labour Muslim Network Ali Milani and former Conservative MP and Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt.

How could we bring down knife crime?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative peer and former education secretary Nicky Morgan, general secretary of the National Education Union Daniel Kebede, Green peer and former party leader Natalie Bennett and Henry Hill from ConservativeHome.

Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock takes your calls & has Farage blown it?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, political commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, UnHerd political editor Tom McTague and former Conservative adviser Charlie Rowley.

Will the Tory betting scandal change voters' minds?

Plus, a special LBC youth hustings with 18-21 year olds from across the political spectrum.

Is it all over for Rishi Sunak?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour's Bell Ribeiro-Addy, commentator Samuel Kasumu, Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Kramer and journalist Rachel Wearmouth.

Who's winning the debate on tax?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour candidate Sir Stephen Timms, Sebastian Payne from the Onward think tank, broadcaster and author Christina Patterson and pollster James Johnson.

What do Reform UK mean by 'essential immigration'?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour's Shadow Environment Secretary Steve Reed, Conservative David Simmonds, commentator Ella Whelan and clean energy entrepreneur Juliet Davenport.

Could this election be terminal for the Conservative Party?

Is Labour's manifesto exciting enough?

Are smaller parties getting a fair crack of the whip?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour's Barry Gardiner, former Tory MP Stephen Hammond, trade unionist Mary Bousted and Guardian columnist Sir Simon Jenkins.

Will the Tory tax-cutting manifesto change anything?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour's James Murray, Conservative peer and pollster Lord Hayward, commentator Nimco Ali and journalist Antonello Guerrera.

Is Labour's private schools policy making you more or less likely to vote for them?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are the Liberal Democrat peer and Business and Trade spokesperson Lord Chris Fox, the Green Party peer Baroness Jenny Jones, the writer and political commenator Benedict Spence and the Institute for Government's senior fellow Sam Freedman.

What will Rishi Sunak's D-Day blunder mean for the election?

80 years on from D-Day, should we be alive to modern threats to democracy?

Is Keir Starmer right to say he'll never use private healthcare?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Stephen Bush from the Financial Times, political commentator Salma Shah, former Labour MP and minister Parmjit Dhanda and former Conservative MP and minister Steve Norris.

Why are the main parties so negative about immigration?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Green Party deputy leader Zack Polanski, Lib Dem Munira Wilson, the Telegraph's Annabel Denham and Polly Toynbee from The Guardian.

How much will new Reform UK leader Nigel Farage shake up the election?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour's Stella Creasy, Conservative Sir Alan Duncan, Gina Miller from the True and Fair Party and POLITICO Europe's Anne McElvoy.

Will the Labour Party let Diane Abbott stand?

Joining Iain on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP Nickie Aiken, Labour's Siobhain McDonagh, Liberal Democrat Sarah Olney and Robert Shrimsley of the Financial Times.

Reaction to Michael Gove announcing he is standing down as an MP. The International Court of Justice ordering Israel to stop its campaign in the city of Rafah. Are Labour being ambitious enough? Iain's Friday night Open Phone-in.

Should there be TV election debates every week?

Plus, Sir Robin Niblett takes your calls on the main parties' approaches to China and Russia!

Rishi Sunak calls the election for the 4th of July!

In perhaps the first election debate, on the day Rishi Sunak called the general election, Iain Dale was joined on Cross Question by Conservative Steve Baker, Labour's Anneliese Dodds, Liberal Democrat Alistair Carmichael and Richard Thomson from the SNP.

Why should we pay respects to the late Iranian president?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Green MP and former leader Caroline Lucas, Alba Party leader and former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond, Conservative MP Heather Wheeler and social entrepreneur and Baptist minister Reverend Steve Chalke.

Have lessons been learned from the infected blood scandal?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP and chair of the home affairs select committee Dame Diana Johnson, Conservative MP Tom Hunt, the GMB union's general secretary Gary Smith and Christian Calgie from the Daily Express.

Which party do you trust more on small boats and asylum policy? Can it be at all reasonable to target Israel's 20 year-old Eurovision performer? Iain's Friday night Open Phone-in.

Is Britain right to continue exporting arms to Israel? Plus the Union of Jewish Students' President Edward Isaacs takes your calls, hours after meeting with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Who wins when a right wing MP defects from the Tories to Labour?

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.

Labour's Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves takes your calls!

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.

What do the local election results mean?

Should police officers be armed?

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.

Labour's Louise Haigh takes your transport calls!

Is the Scottish government falling apart?

Can Ukraine win the war with the West's help?

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.

Do older people get a hard time?

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.

Rwanda policy ping pong and are you a patriot?

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

Retail giant Theo Paphitis takes your calls

Can the UK have any influence over what Netanyahu does next?

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.

Kemi Badenoch takes your calls on the Cass review, prayer in schools, conversion therapy and Brexit.

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.

Liz Truss on her mini-budget, Trump vs Biden and her 'unfinished business'

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.

'Aggressive begging', Bill Browder and Evgenia Kara-Murza, Question Marks and prison reform

Should protesters stay away from Keir Starmer's house?

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.

Are we letting children down over gender care?

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.

Is it just 'middle class lefties' fighting more private sector involvement in the NHS?