Cross Question with Iain Dale

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Conservatives' Shadow National Security Minister Alicia Kearns, former Downing Street Director of Communications during Keir Starmer's premiership James Lyons, businessman and former 'Dragon's Den' investor Richard Farleigh, plus the leader of Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labour Party Claire Hanna.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Conservative MP and former Cabinet minister Sir Gavin Williamson, the former Channel 4 Head of News Dorothy Byrne, the columnist Angela Epstein, plus Labour MP Mike Reader.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the conservative commentator Emily Hewertson, Lib Dem MP Bobby Dean, political journalist Nadine Batchelor-Hunt, plus the former Conservative minister Tim Loughton.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the presenter of the Daily Expresso podcast JJ Anisiobi, political journalist Zoë Grünewald, the Conservatives' Shadow Treasury Minister Dame Harriett Baldwin, plus the Labour MP Alex McIntyre.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are MPs Alex Sobel from Labour, Sarah Bool from the Conservatives and Liz Saville-Roberts from Plaid Cymru, plus the Ukraine-based aid worker and former Tory MP Brooks Newmark.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Labour MP Chris Ward, non-affiliated peer Baroness Claire Fox, the internationalist Best for Britain's chief executive Naomi Smith, plus the content creator Stuart Pidman.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are former Conservative Cabinet minister Michelle Donelan, Corbyn-era Labour manifesto writer Andrew Fisher, the Co-operative Party's Interim General Secretary Caitlin Prowle, plus the Social Democratic Party leadership hopeful Sebastian Moore.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the businessman Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones (a.k.a. 'The Black Farmer'), civil liberties campaigner Silkie Carlo from the campaign group Big Brother Watch, Labour activist Stella Tsantekidou, plus the former Conservative peer and Health Minister Lord James Bethell.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question - live from the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham - are Shadow Energy Security Secretary Andrew Bowie, former Tory Cabinet minister Gillian Keegan, plus The Spectator's Lara Brown.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question - live from the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham - are Shadow Justice Minister Dr Kieran Mullan, the More in Common think-tank and pollster's director Luke Tryl, plus The Spectator's Tali Fraser.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Lib Dem leader on the London Assembly Hina Bokhari, Conservative London Mayoral hopeful Festus Akinbusoye, plus the political commentator Matt Stadlen.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the New Statesman's Oli Dugmore, the Daily Telegraph columnist Ella Whelan, Labour peer and former adviser to then-Chancellor Alistair Darling Baroness Catherine MacLeod, plus the social media Holocaust-themed content creator Dov Forman.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question - live from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool - are Treasury Minister James Murray, the Equity union's General Secretary Paul W. Fleming, plus the Liverpool Echo's Political Editor Liam Thorp.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question - live from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool - are Trade Minister Lord Anas Sarwar, the University and College Union's General Secretary Dr Jo Grady, plus The Observer's Whitehall Editor Cat Neilan.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are former Conservative Immigration Minister Tom Pursglove, Green Party peer and former leader Baroness Natalie Bennett, The Guardian's Policy Editor Kiran Stacey, plus LBC presenter James Hanson.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are columnist Emily Sheffield, Labour MP Joe Powell, former Conservative MP Anna Firth, plus the journalist Eleanor Mills.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour MP Dame Siobhain McDonagh, Reform UK's Director of Local Government Jaymey McIvor, City AM's Opinion and Features Editor Alys Denby, plus the author and political commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Reform UK's 2028 London Mayoral election candidate Laila Cunningham, farmer and former Big Brother housemate Cameron Kinch, NASUWT teaching union General Secretary Matt Wrack, plus Labour MP David Pinto-Duschinsky.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Former Justice Secretary Alex Chalk KC, former prisoner David Shipley, former Chief Inspector of Prisons Dame Ann Owers, and former prison officer Alex South.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour MP Jess Asato, Conservative Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and former MP Paul Bristow, the Verdant think-tank director James Meadway, plus the writer and commentator Reem Ibrahim.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour MP Alex Ballinger, Conservative Shadow Energy Security Minister Dr Luke Evans, Heart of London Business Alliance's chief executive Ros Morgan, plus the investigative journalist Ellie Flynn.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour's Transport Minister Keir Mather, Conservative Shadow Scotland Secretary Harriet Cross, Reform UK decision-making board member Gawain Towler, plus the barrister and broadcaster Hashi Mohamed.

Joining Iain Dale on a special youth-focused edition of Cross Question are the feminist writer Tilly Middlehurst, CPAC GB Youth Ambassador Jayden Palmer, the Green Party Deputy Mayor of Hackney Dylan Law, plus the podcaster Joshua Eames.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour's Work and Pensions Minister Lilian Greenwood, former Conservative Cabinet minister Sir Simon Clarke, Lib Dem MP Layla Moran, plus businessman Lord Karan Bilimoria.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the businessman Sir Martin Sorrell, plus MPs Dr Jeevun Sandher from Labour, Dr Ellie Chowns from the Green Party and Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst from the Conservatives.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour MP Dame Emily Thornberry, the broadcaster Sir Trevor Phillips, Conservative peer Baroness Joanne Cash, plus the political commentator Jess Caine.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Chair of the Labour Muslim Network Ali Milani, former Deputy Prime Minister Baroness Dr Thérèse Coffey, London's Liberal Democrats Spokesperson Luke Taylor, and Broadcaster & entrepreneur Claudia Hearne.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Conservative Women and Equalities Minister Joy Morrissey, Labour MP Helena Dollimore, the Mail on Sunday columnist Dan Hodges, plus the Yorktown Institute research fellow and British Army veteran Rob Clark.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Octopus Energy chief executive Greg Jackson, plus MPs Tonia Antoniazzi from Labour, Douglas Lumsden from the Conservatives plus Lara Bird from the SNP.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Liberal Democrat trade spokesperson Josh Reynolds, manufacturing sector businessman John Elliott, Green Party London Assembly member Caroline Russell, plus political commentator Sarah Southern.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are MPs Rachel Blake from Labour and David Mundell from the Conservatives, the Green New Deal Rising campaign's Hannah Martin, plus LBC presenter Henry Riley.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are former former Conservative Cabinet minister Dame Theresa Villiers, fine jeweller Kiki McDonough, transport journalist Christian Wolmar, plus long-time Jeremy Corbyn adviser James Schneider.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Green Party deputy leader Rachel Millward, Labour London Assembly member Leonie Cooper, Conservative local councillor and former London Assembly member Tony Devenish, plus businessman Kiran Fothergill.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy, commentator and former town mayor Andy Preston, businessman Tony Earnshaw, plus Zeteo UK's Political Editor Shehab Khan.

Simon Marks sits in and is joined on Cross Question by Green Party London Assembly member Benali Hamdache, Reform UK adviser on global affairs Dr Alan Mendoza, LBC presenter Natasha Devon and former Conservative adviser James Starkie.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Common Wealth think-tank director and 'Manchesterism' analyst Mathew Lawrence, the British Chambers of Commerce's Director-General Shevaun Haviland, the Daily Express' deputy editor-in-chief Sam Lister, plus The i newspaper's senior reporter Benjamin Butterworth.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are former Cabinet ministers Jim Murphy from Labour, Lord Mark Harper from the Conservatives and Sir Vince Cable from the Liberal Democrats, plus the Politico journalist Anne McElvoy.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the journalist and broadcaster Afua Hagan, the political commentator Anita Boateng, trade unionist Chris Webb, plus the director of the Popular Conservatism movement Mark Littlewood.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour MP Samantha Niblett, political commentator Ellie Hodges, journalist and writer Andy Twelves, plus LBC's own Political Correspondent Bethany Dawson.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Conservative MP and former Net Zero Minister Graham Stuart, Green Party peer Baroness Jenny Jones, the Daily Telegraph's Poppy Coburn, plus Dr Mike Galsworthy from the European Movement UK campaign group.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour MP Miatta Fahnbulleh - whose resignation helped triggered Sir Keir Starmer's resignation, the Conservatives' Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith, the SNP's Westminster leader Dave Doogan, plus the journalist and broadcaster Angela Epstein.

Joining Iain Dale are Labour MP Luke Charters, former UKIP deputy chairman Suzanne Evans, former Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski, plus the podcaster Jemma Forte.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour councillor and former Gogglebox star Josh Tapper, former Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley, the Sunday Telegraph's Political Editor Camilla Turner, plus the Children's Alliance charity chief executive and former Conservative MP Jo Gideon.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Liberal Democrat frontbencher Lisa Smart, former Conservative Cabinet minister Justine Greening, The Guardian columnist Zoe Williams, plus the writer and commentator Benedict Spence.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are former England forward Eni Aluko, the former Conservative Cabinet minister Sir Ranil Jayawardena, Labour MP Alex Sobel, plus The Specator's Commissioning Editor Tali Fraser.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Labour MP Dr Jeevun Sandher, the Lib Dems' Transport spokesperson Olly Glover, former Brexit Party and Conservative MEP Lucy Harris, plus the former Number 10 civil servant Caroline Slocock.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Conservative peer and Olympic silver medal-winning swimmer Baroness Sharron Davies, Labour MP Tom Hayes, the Think Labour think-tank chief executive Alison Phillips, plus the former Conservative Home Office adviser Christopher Howarth.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are the Conservative peer Baroness Nicky Morgan, Labour MP Joe Morris, political communications strategist Jo Tanner, plus UK and Ireland Correspondent for the Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica Antonello Guerrera.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question are Reform UK's Head of Local Government Delivery Ben Bradley, MPs Stella Creasy from Labour and Kirsty Blackman from the SNP, plus The Sun's political correspondent Tom Scotson.

Simon Marks sits in for Iain Dale and is joined by Green Party peer and former leader Baroness Natalie Bennett, The Times' leader writer Sebastian Payne, The i paper columnist and former Corbyn adviser Andrew Fisher, plus the former leader of the Conservatives in the House of Lords Baroness Tina Stowell.