Iain Dale - The Whole Show

Air India plane crash: what we knowPlus, 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.

104-year-old WWII veteran takes your calls!Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Lib Dem MP Sarah Olney, former Conservative MP and minister Laura Farris, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and businessman and former independent Mayor of Middlesbrough Andy Preston.

Which bits of your identity are you proud of?

Is net zero realistic?Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill, former Conservative MP and minister Greg Hands, former Gogglebox star and Labour campaigner Josh Tapper and journalist and businessman Tim Hames.

Trump's (second) first hundred days: tragedy or triumph?Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former first minister of Northern Ireland Baroness Foster, Labour MP Peter Prinsley, SNP MP Stephen Gethins and political commentator Samantha Smith.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch back to take your calls!Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Alex Sobel, Conservative peer Lord Ranger, City AM opinion editor Alys Denby and imam and broadcaster Ajmal Masroor.

Time to fine the headphone-dodgers?Plus, Jonathan Dimbleby takes your calls.

Is Trump giving up on peace in Ukraine?Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Lib Dem MP Layla Moran, former Conservative MP and minister Sir Robert Buckland, comedian and journalist Ava Vidal and businessman and political commentator Lance Forman.

Is the government trying to copy Nigel Farage?Joining Iain Dale for this special edition of Cross Question to mark Earth Day are Green Party leader Adrian Ramsay, Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice, climate change lawyer Tessa Khan and clean energy businessman Michael Liebreich.

Do you have sympathy for teachers? Plus Frank Gardner tells us how about his experience traveling as a disabled person

What next for the trans debate?Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Lib Dem MP Al Pinkerton, former Conservative MP and minister Angela Knight, political commentator Scarlett MccGwire and Max Anderson from the Conservative Environment Network.

Is a bin strike coming to a town near you?Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Christabel Cooper from the Labour Together think tank, Charlotte Pickles from the REFORM think tank, broadcaster and journalist Matthew Stadlen and political commentator Sarah Southern.

Is China a hostile state?Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Conservative MP and minister Paul Scully, Labour London Assembly member Leonie Cooper, former head of BBC TV news Roger Mosey and Telegraph columnist Annabel Denham.

Do we need more bobbies on the beat?Plus, your business questions answered and do you want a nuclear reactor in your back yard?

Did Trump just cave?Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Lib Dem MP Bobby Dean, former Conservative MP Jessica Harrington, free markets campaigner Aman Bhogal and foreign affairs journalist Ian Birrell.

Why won't government stop Birmingham's rubbish crisis?Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Polly Billington, former Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis, podcaster Jemma Forte and Express journalist Conor Wilson.

How bad is the crime on your train?Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Mike Tapp, Green MP Ellie Chowns, Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley and LBC's Aggie Chambre.

Do Trump's tariffs prove Brexiteers right?Plus, journalist Ash Sarkar takes your calls on her new book.

Trump hits UK with 10% tariff!Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Rachel Taylor, Conservative peer Lord Jackson, barrister and commentator Hashi Mohamed and the FT's Whitehall editor Lucy Fisher.

Should the PM fight back against Trump's tariffs?Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Satvir Kaur, Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale, The Spectator's William Atkinson and satirist Aid Thompsin.

Will Marine Le Pen's conviction help her cause?Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Wales secretary and Labour MP Jo Stevens, former Tory MP Mark Field, political commentator Jovan Owusu-Nepaul and Christian Calgie from the Express.

Iain sits down with the Chancellor Rachel Reeves inside her Downing Street office for an exclusive interview, following her Spring Statement.Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Conservatives' Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Richard Fuller, Labour MP and Treasury Select Committee chair Dame Meg Hillier, Bloomberg economics journalist Stephanie Flanders and the businessman and markets commentator David Buik.

Do the rich pay enough tax?Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP who was in Corbyn's shadow cabinet Richard Burgon, Conservative MP and shadow foreign minister Wendy Morton, former Scottish Labour leader turned academic Kezia Dugdale and political comms strategist and former Boris Johnson adviser Jo Tanner.