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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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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.

Nov 18, 2025 • 2h 29min
Why are so many Brits fleeing this country?
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.

Nov 17, 2025 • 2h 30min
Would the government's new asylum reform plans be the deterrent it says it claims, or is it just totally inhumane?
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.

Nov 13, 2025 • 2h 30min
Could removing incentives for buying electric vehicles stop you buying one?
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.

Nov 12, 2025 • 2h 32min
If Labour were to oust Keir Starmer, who would you want to replace him?
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.

Nov 11, 2025 • 2h 31min
Would you support the two-child benefit cap being scrapped?
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.

Nov 10, 2025 • 2h 31min
What should - and shouldn't - the BBC do in the future?
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.

Oct 30, 2025 • 2h 31min
Call Kemi: Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch takes your calls
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.

Oct 29, 2025 • 2h 30min
Is putting taxes up just a coward's way out?
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.


