Iain Dale - The Whole Show

How can Jewish people around the world be made to feel safer, when atrocities keep occurring?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Conservatives' Shadow Transport Secretary Richard Holden, Labour MP Tony Vaughan, political commentator Salma Shah and The Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee.

Are resident doctors being irresponsible to still be considering striking next week, given the scale of the flu outbreak?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour's Cabinet Office Minister Josh Simons, former Conservative Cabinet Minister Sir John Redwood, the tech entrepreneur Judith McMinn and the political commentator Benedict Spence.

Do you recognise Trump's portrayal of London as a city which has been significantly harmed by immigration?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour Muslim Network chair Ali Milani, MPs Harriet Cross from the Conservatives and Will Stone from Labour, and the think-tanker Phoebe Arslanagić-Little.

How can more young people be got into work?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the former Conservative Education Secretary Justine Greening, Labour MP Dame Chi Onwurah, Anna Sabine from the Liberal Democrats & The Spectator's James Heale.

Does excluding countries from sport and culture really achieve anything?

Author and podcaster Rory Stewart joins Iain in the studio to take LBC listeners' calls.

How should the war in Ukraine best be brought to an end?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour MP Chris Curtis, former Conservative Cabinet minister Theresa Villiers, Democratic Unionist Party MP Jim Shannon and the homelessness campaigner Matthew Torbitt.

Do you support the planned reforms to the justice system?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Channel 4's former Head of News Dorothy Byrne, Labour MP Andrew Pakes, the Centre for Policy Studies' Emma Revell and the former Conservative adviser Tom Skinner.

Are you concerned by the claims that Rachel Reeves misled the public about the country's finances?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour MP Polly Billington, the Liberal Democrats' group leader in Liverpool Carl Cashman, Conservative peer Lord Robert Hayward and ConservativeHome's Henry Hill.

Kemi Badenoch takes your calls.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Exchequer secretary to the Treasury Dan Tomlinson, Shadow business minister Dame Harriett Baldwin, General secretary of the Trades Union Congress Paul Nowak and Columnist for The Times Fraser Nelson.

Would you support British troops being sent to defend Ukraine after this war ends?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the British Chambers of Commerce's Director General Shevaun Haviland, former Scottish Labour Party leader Kezia Dugdale, Conservative MP Graham Stuart and the Sunday Telegraph's Political Editor Camilla Turner.

Should the Chancellor be bold on Wednesday and slash public spending?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are MPs Catherine Atkinson from Labour, Dr Luke Evans from the Conservatives and Edward Morello from the Liberal Democrats, plus the journalist and broadcaster Angela Epstein.

Is stopping legal migrants who aren't citizens from getting benefits the way to end public anger about legal migration?

What needs to happen for this country to take the threats being posed to us a lot more seriously?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the former Conservative Cabinet ministers Lucy Frazer and former Labour Cabinet minister Jim Murphy, along with Re:Start think-tank director Charlotte Pickles and journalist and disability rights campaigner Liam O'Dell.

Why are so many Brits fleeing this country?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Labour MP Alex Sobel, Conservative MP Sir John Hayes, Alys Denby from the business newspaper City AM and the political commentator and Liberal Democrat activist Mathew Hulbert.

Would the government's new asylum reform plans be the deterrent it says it claims, or is it just totally inhumane?

Joining Iain Dale for a business-themed special edition of Cross Question are the wealth manager Gina Miller, drinks producer boss and hotelier Steve Perez, fine jeweller Kiki McDonough and the inventor and entrepreneur Richard Browning.

Could removing incentives for buying electric vehicles stop you buying one?

Journalists Jonathan Dimbleby and Peter Oborne take listeners' calls on the war in Gaza and on Palestine's future.

If Labour were to oust Keir Starmer, who would you want to replace him?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Labour Health Minister Stephen Kinnock, James Reed of the employment agency Reed, former Conservative Cabinet minister Sir Ranil Jayawardena and The Guardian columnist Zoe Williams.

Would you support the two-child benefit cap being scrapped?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Spiked Online editor Tom Slater, the New Statesman's associate political editor Rachel Cunliffe, Labour MP Natasha Irons and the Conservative MP Sir Alec Shelbrooke.

What should - and shouldn't - the BBC do in the future?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Green Party MP Siân Berry, Conservative peer Lord James Bethell, former Brexit Party and Conservative MEP Lucy Harris and the political commentator Matthew Stadlen.

Call Kemi: Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch takes calls from LBC listeners.

The former Cabinet minister Sir Vince Cable also takes calls, on his new book about growing Chinese and Indian economic and political power.

If the Chancellor raises taxes in next month's Budget, is this just a coward's way out?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are MPs Chris Murray from Labour and Greg Smith from the Conservatives, writer and comedian Timandra Harkness and LBC's political correspondent Aggie Chambré.

What role should the UK play in helping Jamaica recover from the damage which Hurricane Melissa will cause?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Conservative Shadow Energy Security Secretary Claire Coutinho, Labour MP Peter Swallow, the Good Growth Foundation's Theresa Bischoff and the Free Speech Union's Connie Shaw.

Who do you blame for the prisons chaos over the weekend, which saw the Epping asylum seeker sex offender wrongly released?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Lib Dem deputy leader Daisy Cooper, Conservative Shadow Defence Minister Mark Francois, the LabourList website editor Emma Burnell and the entrepreneur and commentator Jamila Robertson.

Would you support seeing knife arches in all schools? How else should youth violence be tackled?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the climate policy campaigner Scarlett Westbrook, the former Conservative minister Paul Scully, Labour MP Sarah Smith and the political commentator and strategist Matthew Lesh.

Would you support the state pension triple lock being scrapped?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Conservative peer Baroness Rachel Maclean, Labour MP Calvin Bailey, the economist Liam Halligan and the podcaster Jemma Forte.

Should the government now change the law to force Prince Andrew out of the royal family entirely?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the drag artist Colin Seymour (a.k.a. 'Crystal'), Conservative peer Lord Gavin Barwell, former UKIP deputy chairman Suzanne Evans and Liberal Democrat MP Joshua Reynolds.

If you were Chancellor, whose taxes would you want to put up?

The chair and deputy chair of police officers' representative body, the Police Federation of England and Wales, take LBC listeners' calls.

Why is the Chancellor only now blaming Brexit for Britain's economic woes?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour's Immigration Minister Mike Tapp, Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, The Spectator's Lara Brown and the New Statesman's Oli Dugmore.

What should happen to the asylum seeker who threatened to kill Nigel Farage?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are 'The Black Farmer' Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, Labour Tonia Antoniazzi, Green Party House of Commons leader Dr Ellie Chowns and the Conservative peer and political strategist Lord Matthew Elliott.

What needs to be done to make the peace in Gaza last into the long-term?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Conservative Shadow Scotland Secretary Andrew Bowie, Labour MP Tom Hayes, journalist Rebecca Reid and LBC's own Political Editor Natasha Clark.

Are you optimistic about peace in the Middle East?

Do moves like wanting to abolish stamp duty make the Conservatives sound more appealing again?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question is the former Home Secretary Amber Rudd, the Labour London Assembly member Leonie Cooper, the campaigner Jovan Owusu-Nepaul and the economist Dr Linda Yueh.

Has Robert Jenrick stoked racial tensions by calling out a community's ethnic make-up?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the political commentator and ConservativeHome founder Tim Montgomerie, Tory MP Joe Robertson and the campaigner Albie Amankona.

What good can the Conservatives possibly get from echoing Reform's policies?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Conservative commentator and former Big Brother contest Emily Hewertson, Conservative Shadow Cabinet minister Alex Burghart and the Guido Fawkes political journalist Adam Cherry.

Reaction as we learn more about the terror attack outside a synagogue in Manchester.

If Hamas rejects Trump's plan, what should happen next?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the new Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millward, Labour councillor Sebastian Salek, family lawyer and former Conservative MP Jessica Harrington and the PoliticsHome reporter Tom Scotson.

Is it sensible for Sir Keir Starmer to try to challenge Nigel Farage on issues related to national identity?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question - live from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool - are Care Minister Stephen Kinnock, the General Secretary of the train drivers' union ASLEF Mick Whelan and the political journalist Zoë Grünewald.

Live coverage of US President Donald Trump's announcement of his peace plan for Gaza, alongside the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Joining Iain on Cross Question - live from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool - are the Labour peer and Skills Minister Baroness Jacqui Smith, the General Secretary of the University and College Union Jo Grady and the political journalist and commentator Michael Crick.

Has Starmer's government stopped taking climate change seriously?

Finito Education's Ronel Lehmann takes listeners' calls on tackling Britain's youth unemployment crisis.

Plus Iain asks why people consider having cosmetic surgery.

What benefit is Nigel Farage getting from his apparent political devotion to Donald Trump?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the former Conservative Cabinet minister Sir Brandon Lewis, Labour MP Barry Gardiner, political commentator Stella Tsantekidou and the columnist Ella Whelan.

What's your reaction to Trump's verbal attack on London today?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Reform UK chairman Dr David Bull, Liberal Democrat frontbencher Munira Wilson, Labour MP Stella Creasy and the Daily Telegraph political journalist Poppy Coburn.

Will recognising Palestine make Middle East peace more or less likely?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the influencer and TV personality Amy Hart, former Conservative Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, former Labour minister Caroline Flint and the Daily Telegraph's associate editor Gordon Rayner.

Should we follow Trump's advice and use the military to stop channel migrants?

Are you proud or embarrassed at Britain rolling out the red carpet for Trump?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Labour peer and Trump inauguration attendee Lord Maurice Glasman, the former Conservative Cabinet minister Dame Penny Mordaunt, The Guardian columnist George Monbiot and the historian and broadcaster David Starkey.

Kemi Badenoch answers your questions on Reform UK defections, Tommy Robinson, Mandelson and more!

Iain Dale is joined for Cross Question by Labour Party chair Anna Turley, broadcaster Sir Trevor Phillips, billionaire businessman and philanthropist John Caudwell and Conservative shadow development minister Wendy Morton.

Should Reform continue accepting defections from unpopular Tories?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn, Conservative Shadow Environment Secretary Victoria Atkins, the businessman Steve Rigby & LBC presenter Rachel Johnson.

What does Charlie Kirk's killing mean for free speech?

How can Mandelson possibly continue as our ambassador to Washington?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the political campaigner and former Love Island contestant Sharon Gaffka, the Conservative MP and former Cabinet minister Sir Andrew Mitchell, Labour MP Luke Charters and the Daily Telegraph columnist Annabel Denham.

Is Israel's attack in Qatar justifiable?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Rosie Wrighting, Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, Conservative MP Sir Ashley Fox and political commentator and journalist Dan Hodges.

On LBC's Online Safety Day #2, the National Crime Agency's deputy director Helen Rance and also the former Technology Minister Damian Collins each joined Iain for an hour, taking listeners' calls.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the London Standard columnist Emily Sheffield, the Liberal Democrat frontbencher Tim Farron, the New Statesman's editor-in-chief Tom McTague and the political strategist Jo Tanner.

Shouldn't the asylum seeker convicted of sexual assault be deported immediately?

Political journalist and Tony Blair biographer Steve Richards takes your calls on the former Prime Minister's influence over Keir Starmer's government.

What kinds of restrictions against free speech should exist within our laws?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Labour deputy leader Baroness Harriet Harman, non-affiliated peer and former Conservative Cabinet minister Baroness Nicky Morgan, plus the journalists Lionel Barber and Ash Sarkar.

Do you trust the government to prevent a disastrous economic downturn?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Dame Emily Thornberry, former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Baroness Thérèse Coffey, the SNP leader in Westminster Stephen Flynn and the Financial Times' political editor George Parker.

Should it be harder for refugees to bring family to Britain?

Should taxes go up for landlords?

Will President Trump miss Ed Davey?

Do you want Nigel Farage's mass deportations?

Nicola Sturgeon opens up on her resignation, divorce and JK Rowling

Are weight loss jabs worth the money?

What happens next to asylum seekers in Epping?

Entrepreneur and former TV dragon Piers Linney takes your calls.

Can we still afford the triple lock?

Trump hosts European leaders in the White House to talk Ukraine

Over 25,000 people have made the journey across the English Channel to the UK this year, the quickest rate of arrivals since 2018, intensifying pressure on the Labour government.

Iain speaks with border management and immigration expert, Sara Pownall, and Political consultant, James Price.

He is also joined by journalist and TV news producer, Rob Burley, who talks about his Parkinson's disease diagnosis.

After announcing plans to recognise Palestinian Statehood unless Israel meets his demands, is the Prime Minister on the right side of history?

Iain speaks with Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague, Dr Azriel Bermant, and Director of Communications for Yachad , a British-Jewish organisation working towards a peaceful resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, Danielle Bett.

On Cross Question, Iain is joined by Jonathan Gullis, Will Hutton, Zoe Strimpel and Natasha Devon.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is back to take your calls!

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are columnist for the Guardian, Polly Toynbee, former independent Mayor of Middlesbrough, Andy Preston, Human rights campaigner, Aisha Ali-Khan and Editor of and columnist for TheArticle, Daniel Johnson.

Iain speaks with Professor of International Migration, Nando Sigona, and Research Director of the Centre for Migration Control think-tank, Robert Bates. On Cross Question, he is joined by General Secretary of UNISON, Christina McAnea; Reform UK member of Westminsiter City Council, Laila Cunningham; Social Entrepreneur, Samuel Kasumu and former Labour candidate, Paul Richards.

Should asylum seekers be allowed to work?

Plus, the LBC Green Party Leadership Debate!

Do you have faith in Labour on immigration?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Natasha Irons, former Northern Ireland first minister Baroness Arlene Foster, POLITICO's Anne McElvoy and The Sun's Jack Elsom.

Should protesters let JD Vance holiday in peace?

Does Diane Abbott deserve to be suspended again?

Plus, Fuse ODG takes your calls!

Why is Labour sacking MPs?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Will Stone, Lib Dem MP Jess Brown-Fuller, political commentator Anita Boateng and Tim Loughton, former Conservative minister who's now running to be the first Sussex mayor.

MoD data leak reaction & Kemi Badenoch back to take your calls

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Luke Murphy, Conservative MP Andrew Griffith, Reem Ibrahim from the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank and LBC's own Aggie Chambre.

Is Trump getting fed up with Putin?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Polly Billington, Conservative shadow Wales secretary Mims Davies, filmmaker Neil Breakwell and the Spectator's Lara Brown.

Will Starmer's migration deal with Macron change anything?

Plus, Rich Clarke joins Iain to take your calls on coming out.

Will you vote for Corbyn's new party?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Dan Tomlinson, former Conservative MP Anna Firth, lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie and LBC's own Henry Riley.

Should resident doctors get even more money?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Gregor Poynton, non-affiliated peer Baroness Fox, former Conservative MP Theo Clarke and philosopher Jack Symes.

Twenty years since the 7/7 attacks

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Alison Hume, podcaster Andrew Gold, author James Bloodworth and former Tory MP Jo Gideon.

One year of Labour - and Zarah Sultana quits!

Do you feel for Rachel Reeves?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, Labour MP Jim Dickson, commentator Ali Milani and former Tory minister Steve Baker.

Chaos over the welfare bill vote!

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Rosie Wrighting, political commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, leader of the new Advance UK party Ben Habib and Tory MP Greg Smith.

How do we define disability?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are author Rachel Shabi, Labour MP Charlotte Nichols, Tory peer Baroness Stowell and The Spectator's James Heale.

Air India plane crash: what we know

Plus, shadow chancellor Mel Stride takes your calls

Is your police force running out of money?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP and treasury committee member Rachel Blake, Conservative MP and shadow business minister Dame Harriett Baldwin, journalist and author Duncan Weldon and economist and broadcaster Liam Halligan.

Should we ban halal and kosher slaughter?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville-Roberts, Conservative shadow technology secretary Alan Mak, general secretary of the University and College Union Jo Grady and ConservativeHome editor Giles Dilnot.

Has the winter fuel u-turn made Starmer stronger or weaker?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Andy McDonald, the Conservative peer and former Defence Minister Lord Andrew Robathan, Green Party peer Baroness Jenny Jones and former Brexit Party & Tory MEP Lucy Harris.

If you've never donated blood before, what has put you off of doing so? If you have, what persuaded you to donate for the first time?

Does the resignation of Zia Yusuf as chairman of Reform UK show that Nigel Farage is the biggest barrier which might halt his own rise to power?

Former Foreign Secretary Sir Jeremy Hunt takes your calls on Britain's place in the world.

Was the sentences given to 80 year-old Bhim Kohli's teenage killers too lenient?

Plus reaction to a dramatic, public fall-out between Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey joins Iain in studio to take calls from LBC listeners.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are the Conservative peer and former Ofsted chief inspector Baroness Amanda Spielman, Labour MP and Defence Select Committee chair Tan Dheshi, the Liberal Democrats' Home Affairs spokesperson Lisa Smart and LBC's own Political Editor Natasha Clark.

Plus how did you deal with being diagnosed with a serious illness as a younger person?

Do you wake up early enough?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Tom Hayes, writer and campaigner Melissa Benn, Conservative MP Sir Alec Shelbrooke and Poppy Coburn from The Telegraph.

Is our country well-defended?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, Conservative MP Harriet Cross, Green peer and former leader Natalie Bennett and commentator Ella Whelan.

Have you ever tried to stop a fare-dodger?

Are resident doctors losing your support?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Chris Curtis, Reform UK London Assembly member Alex Wilson, Naomi Smith from the campaign group Best for Britain and commentator Angela Epstein.

Does Farage represent the working class?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are broadcaster David Aaronovitch, former Conservative culture secretary Lucy Frazer, journalist Oli Dugmore and entrepreneur Emma Sinclair.

Should sex offenders be chemically castrated?

How many more u-turns will we get from this government?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Channel 4 News boss Dorothy Byrne, shadow culture minister and Conservative MP Saqib Bhatti, Labour MP Steve Race and City AM columnist Jamila Robertson.

Will Israel listen to David Lammy's condemnation?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn, shadow health minister and Conservative MP Dr Luke Evans, Rachel Cunliffe from the New Statesman and political commentator Charlie Downes.

Is the new EU deal a 'betrayal'?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Mark Ferguson, Conservative MP and shadow paymaster general Richard Holden, Liberal Democrat MP Victoria Collins and Times columnist Matthew Syed.

Is Trump actually a barrier to peace in Ukraine?

How do we stop prisons overflowing?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative peer Lord Brady, Labour MP Naushabah Khan, political commentator and former Conservative adviser Salma Shah and journalist Zoë Grünewald.

Has Keir Starmer got his dog whistle out?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP and science committee chair Chi Onwurah, Conservative shadow cabinet office minister Alex Burghart, general secretary of the GMB union Gary Smith and Times journalist Cindy Yu.

Is the UK-US trade deal a Brexit win?

Should you be able to drive a train at eighteen?

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Barry Gardiner, Conservative MP and shadow housing minister David Simmonds, barrister and author Dr Charlotte Proudman and London Standard columnist Emily Sheffield.