Cross Question with Iain Dale LBC

In perhaps the first election debate, on the day Rishi Sunak called the general election, Iain Dale was joined on Cross Question by Conservative Steve Baker, Labour's Anneliese Dodds, Liberal Democrat Alistair Carmichael and Richard Thomson from the SNP.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Green MP and former leader Caroline Lucas, Alba Party leader and former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond, Conservative MP Heather Wheeler and social entrepreneur and Baptist minister Reverend Steve Chalke.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are Labour MP and home affairs select committee chair Dame Diana Johnson, Conservative MP Tom Hunt, the GMB union's general secretary Gary Smith and Christian Calgie from the Daily Express.

Ali Miraj sits in and is joined on Cross Question by Conservative MP and former minister Shailesh Vara, the Green Party's Sian Berry, civil liberties campaigner Silkie Carlo and political commentator Charlie Rowley.

Ali Miraj sits in and is joined on Cross Question by SNP MP and women and equalities spokesperson Kirsten Oswald, social entrepreneur and former Johnson adviser Samuel Kasumu, barrister and ex-Tory MP Jessica Harrington and POLITICO's Stefan Boscia.

Ali Miraj sits in and is joined on Cross Question by Labour MP Khalid Mahmood, Conservative MP Bob Seely, psychotherapist Lucy Beresford and Matthew Lesh from the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank.