Iain Dale - The Whole Show

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...

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 d...

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.