Iain Dale - The Whole Show
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Always punchy, always opinionated, you can find Iain Dale in the Evening live on LBC Monday to Thursday from 7pm. Cross Question, LBC's political panel debate show, features from Monday to Wednesday. On Thursday, a phone-in with top guests from the world of politics, academia, media and entertainment.
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Dec 8, 2025 • 2h 30min
How can more young people be got into work?
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.
Dec 4, 2025 • 2h 29min
Does excluding countries from sport and culture really achieve anything? Plus Rory Stewart takes listeners' calls
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.
Dec 3, 2025 • 2h 30min
How should the war in Ukraine best be brought to an end?
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.
Dec 2, 2025 • 2h 30min
Do you support the planned reforms to the justice system?
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.
Dec 1, 2025 • 2h 28min
Are you concerned by the claims that Rachel Reeves misled the public about the country's finances?
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.
Nov 26, 2025 • 2h 30min
Kemi Badenoch takes your calls
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.
Nov 25, 2025 • 2h 30min
Would you support British troops being sent to defend Ukraine after this war ends?
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.
Nov 24, 2025 • 2h 33min
Should the Chancellor be bold on Wednesday and slash public spending?
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.
Nov 20, 2025 • 2h 29min
Is stopping legal migrants who aren't citizens from getting benefits the way to end public anger about legal migration?
Is stopping legal migrants who aren't citizens from getting benefits the way to end public anger about legal migration?
Nov 19, 2025 • 2h 30min
What needs to happen for this country to take the threats being posed to us a lot more seriously?
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.
