On Budget Day, Labour's Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves takes your calls! Joining Iain Dale for this Budget Day special Cross Question panel are economist Ann Pettifor who co-authored the Green New Deal and used to advise John McDonnell, Shevaun Haviland from the British Chambers of Commerce, author and Oxford University economist Linda Yueh and financial entrepreneur and former Bank of England adviser Roger Gewolb.
Mar 06, 2024•2 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Is now the right time to cut taxes? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and chair of the One Nation group of backbench Tories Damian Green, Labour MP Nadia Whittome, social commentator and author Nels Abbey and Annabel Denham from the Telegraph.
Mar 05, 2024•2 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are the Tories heading for total wipeout? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are SNP MP and former Westminster leader Ian Blackford, Conservative MP and former minister Vicky Ford, barrister and broadcaster Hashi Mohamed and Reform UK's candidate for Mayor of London Howard Cox.
Mar 04, 2024•2 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simon Marks takes your US election questions!
Feb 29, 2024•2 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Is it for politicians to tell protesters they've 'made their point'? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are housing minister and Conservative MP Lee Rowley, Novara Media's Ash Sarkar, shadow Cabinet Office minister and Labour peer Baroness Chapman and Adam Hawksbee from the Onward think tank.
Feb 28, 2024•2 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Does the Conservative Party have an Islamophobia problem? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP Katherine Fletcher, political commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, former race adviser to Boris Johnson Samuel Kasumu and Lib Dem MP and chief whip Wendy Chamberlain.
Feb 27, 2024•2 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast How do we stop our prisons filling up? Plus, joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening to talk about the Tories kicking out Lee Anderson, and much else besides, are political sketchwriter for the Daily Mail Quentin Letts, Conservative MP Anna Firth, chair of the Labour Muslim Network Ali Milani and Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh.
Feb 26, 2024•2 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Is Parliament giving in to extremists? Plus: we talk defence with journalist and British Army reservist Peter Apps - he takes your calls about his book: 'Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO'.
Feb 22, 2024•2 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chaos in the Commons over the ceasefire vote - is the speaker in trouble? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are broadcaster Sir Trevor Phillips, Conservative MP Matt Warman, social activist Nimco Ali and Labour MP Barry Gardiner.
Feb 21, 2024•2 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Could the UK defend the Falklands? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and former minister Sir Conor Burns, SNP MP and cabinet office spokesperson Kirsty Blackman, Sunday Telegraph columnist Zoe Strimpel and Rob Blackie, the Lib Dem candidate for Mayor of London.
Feb 20, 2024•2 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Has Israel gone too far? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Labour MP and minister Caroline Flint, Conservative MP and chair of the environment committee Sir Robert Goodwill, LBC presenter Natasha Devon and commentator Angela Epstein.
Feb 19, 2024•2 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Cameron vs the Republicans, small business clinic and surname discrimination
Feb 15, 2024•2 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Protesters target Tory MP's home and do younger people enjoy Valentine's Day? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative police and crime commissioner for Bedfordshire Festus Akinbusoye, broadcaster and psychotherapist Lucy Beresford, Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate Josh Babarinde and Emma Revell from the Centre for Policy Studies think tank.
Feb 14, 2024•2 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Broadcasting legend Steve Wright dies at 69 Joining Iain Dale on a special edition of Cross Question focusing on foreign affairs are former UK ambassador to the US Lord Darroch, defence and security expert Professor Michael Clarke, journalist, broadcaster and founder of the China Dialogue Trust Isabel Hilton and former Middle East minister Alistair Burt.
Feb 13, 2024•2 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Labour under fire over Rochdale candidate comments and is Trump a threat to peace? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are broadcaster and DJ Liz Kershaw, Josh Simons from the Labour Together think tank, independent London mayoral candidate Rayhan Haque and political commentator Suzanne Evans.
Feb 12, 2024•2 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Starmer drops his green investment pledge and Putin's 'number one enemy' takes your calls
Feb 08, 2024•2 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Plans to fix the dental crisis and ignoring calls from your boss Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Green Party peer and former leader Baroness Bennett, Conservative MP and former chief whip Wendy Morton, broadcaster Paul Mason and political commentator Benedict Spence.
Feb 07, 2024•2 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Loopholes in our asylum system and naughty kids Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative peer and former cabinet minister Baroness Morgan, Labour MP and former leadership contender Rebecca Long-Bailey, FT journalist Jim Pickard and businessman David Buik.
Feb 06, 2024•2 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast King Charles III diagnosed with cancer Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Liberal Democrat MP and foreign affairs spokesperson Layla Moran, Conservative MP and member of the home affairs committee Tim Loughton, Sun journalist Noa Hoffman and broadcaster Steve Richards.
Feb 05, 2024•2 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Minister fears for his safety & should we be more forgiving?
Feb 01, 2024•2 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Is Labour cosying-up to big business too much? And is it good to cry? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Barry Gardiner, LBC presenter Rachel Johnson, environment minister and Conservative MP Robbie Moore and journalist Michael Crick.
Jan 31, 2024•2 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hope for power-sharing in Northern Ireland and should we recognise a Palestinian state? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative MP and leader of the 'Common Sense Group' of Tory MPs Sir John Hayes, Labour MP and Party Chair Anneliese Dodds, political commentator Anita Boateng and Ian Dunt, author of 'How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't'.
Jan 30, 2024•2 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves takes your calls and should the UNRWA be defunded? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are transparency campaigner and leader of the True and Fair Party Gina Miller, Conservative MP and former defence minister Sir Alec Shelbrooke, Labour MP Kim Johnson and Sebastian Payne from the Onward think tank.
Jan 29, 2024•2 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Should we get tough to tackle knife crime? Grandson of Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert takes your calls. And why don't young people want to get married?
Jan 25, 2024•2 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Would you fight for your country? And is ageism the forgotten prejudice? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Guardian columnist and environmentalist George Monbiot, Conservative MP and former business minister Dean Russell, SNP MP Kirsten Oswald and Greg Swenson of Republicans Overseas UK.
Jan 24, 2024•2 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brother of an Israeli hostage takes your calls & are more UK air strikes in Yemen justified? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are journalist and broadcaster Anne McElvoy, Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood, Labour MP Sarah Champion and the Mirror's political editor John Stevens.
Jan 23, 2024•2 hr 21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Does it matter if Saturday post is axed? Should women be reported to the police for illegal abortions? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Guardian columnist and former editor of The Times Sir Simon Jenkins, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats Daisy Cooper, Conservative MP and former justice secretary Sir Robert Buckland and human rights barrister Charlotte Proudman.
Jan 22, 2024•2 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast The loan charge scandal, the state of the economy & has your pet been stolen?
Jan 18, 2024•2 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast MPs vote on the Rwanda plan & should all schools have prayer rooms? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Business Minister and Conservative peer Lord Offord, Rachel Cunliffe of the New Statesman, former Corbyn policy advisor Andrew Fisher and political commentator Tim Montgomerie, plus Natasha Clark providing updates as MPs vote on the Government's Rwanda plan.
Jan 17, 2024•2 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Is the Rwanda plan weakening Rishi Sunak & why is Donald Trump still so popular? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Conservative MP John Penrose, boss of the press regulator IPSO Lord Faulks and human rights lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie.
Jan 16, 2024•2 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast