Iain Dale - The Whole Show

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 you to donate for the first time?

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 did you deal with being diagnosed with a serious illness as a younger person?

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.

Have you ever tried to stop a fare-dodger?

Are resident doctors losing your support? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Chris Curtis, Reform UK London Assembly member Alex Wilson, Naomi Smith from the campaign group Best for Britain and commentator Angela Epstein.

Does Farage represent the working class? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are broadcaster David Aaronovitch, former Conservative culture secretary Lucy Frazer, journalist Oli Dugmore and entrepreneur Emma Sinclair.

Should sex offenders be chemically castrated?

How many more u-turns will we get from this government? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Channel 4 News boss Dorothy Byrne, shadow culture minister and Conservative MP Saqib Bhatti, Labour MP Steve Race and City AM columnist Jamila Robertson.

Will Israel listen to David Lammy's condemnation? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn, shadow health minister and Conservative MP Dr Luke Evans, Rachel Cunliffe from the New Statesman and political commentator Charlie Downes.

Is the new EU deal a 'betrayal'? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Mark Ferguson, Conservative MP and shadow paymaster general Richard Holden, Liberal Democrat MP Victoria Collins and Times columnist Matthew Syed.

Is Trump actually a barrier to peace in Ukraine?

How do we stop prisons overflowing? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Conservative peer Lord Brady, Labour MP Naushabah Khan, political commentator and former Conservative adviser Salma Shah and journalist Zoë Grünewald.

Has Keir Starmer got his dog whistle out? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP and science committee chair Chi Onwurah, Conservative shadow cabinet office minister Alex Burghart, general secretary of the GMB union Gary Smith and Times journalist Cindy Yu.

Is the UK-US trade deal a Brexit win?

Should you be able to drive a train at eighteen? Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP Barry Gardiner, Conservative MP and shadow housing minister David Simmonds, barrister and author Dr Charlotte Proudman and London Standard columnist Emily Sheffield.