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Iain Dale is one of Britain's leading political commentators and broadcasters. He presents the Evening Show on LBC Radio (Monday – Thursday, 7–10pm) and was named Radio Presenter of the Year for 2013 & 2016 at the Arqiva Awards. He co-presented LBC's seven hour long general election night programme in 2010, 2015 and 2017 and was at the heart of the 2019 Tory leadership race, having chaired ten of the 16 leadership hustings with Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt.
He has been a contributing editor for GQ magazine and writes for various national newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman, the Spectator and Attitude.
In summer of 2019, Iain brought his incisive take on current affairs to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with his first show Iain Dale: All Talk. The star-studded line-up included Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
Iain is the founder of Total Politics magazine and was the brains behind Politico's Bookstore. In 2009, he founded Britain's leading political publisher, Biteback Publishing and since then has published more than 600 books including Power Trip, Call me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron and The Alastair Campbell Diaries. He left the company in June 2018 to concentrate on his broadcasting career.
He is a panellist three days a week on CNN Talk on CNN International, with Max Foster, Liam Halligan and Ayesha Hazarika. He is a regular contributor to Newsnight, the Andrew Marr Show, the Daily/Sunday Politics and The Wright Stuff. In April 2018, he made a much acclaimed debut appearance on the BBC's Question Time. He appears as a regular political pundit on various Sky and BBC news programmes.
Iain is also the creator and co-presenter of the For the Many podcast, which he records with former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. In 2018, he launched a new podcast, Iain Dale's Book Club, with guests including Sebastian Faulks, Jeffrey Archer and James O'Brien.
His book Why Can't We All Just Get Along: Shout Less Listen More was published in 2020 by HarperCollins. Why Can't We All Just Get Along is part-memoir, part-polemic about the state of discourse in Britain and the world today.
Iain Dale presents the Evening Show on LBC Radio (Monday-Thursday 7pm-10pm). He was named Radio Presenter of the Year for 2013 & 2016 at the Arqiva Awards, and was shortlisted for Speech programme of the year at the 2013 Sony Radio Awards. In 2014 he won a Sony Award for ‘Best Interview of the Year'.
He joined LBC in 2010 and presented the Drivetime show for five and a half years, from March 2013 until August 2018. He has presented four LBC General Election Night Shows, two American Presidential Election overnight shows, as well as the stations Scottish and Brexit referendum night shows.
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In summer of 2019, Iain brought his incisive take on current affairs to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with his first show Iain Dale: All Talk. The star-studded line-up included Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
Iain is the founder of Total Politics magazine and was the brains behind Politico's Bookstore. In 2009, he founded Britain's leading political publisher, Biteback Publishing and since then has published more than 600 books including Power Trip, Call me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron and The Alastair Campbell Diaries. He left the company in June 2018 to concentrate on his broadcasting career.
He is a panellist three days a week on CNN Talk on CNN International, with Max Foster, Liam Halligan and Ayesha Hazarika. He is a regular contributor to Newsnight, the Andrew Marr Show, the Daily/Sunday Politics and The Wright Stuff. In April 2018, he made a much acclaimed debut appearance on the BBC's Question Time. He appears as a regular political pundit on various Sky and BBC news programmes.
Iain is also the creator and co-presenter of the For the Many podcast, which he records with former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. In 2018, he launched a new podcast, Iain Dale's Book Club, with guests including Sebastian Faulks, Jeffrey Archer and James O'Brien.
His book Why Can't We All Just Get Along: Shout Less Listen More was published in 2020 by HarperCollins. Why Can't We All Just Get Along is part-memoir, part-polemic about the state of discourse in Britain and the world today.
Iain Dale presents the Evening Show on LBC Radio (Monday-Thursday 7pm-10pm). He was named Radio Presenter of the Year for 2013 & 2016 at the Arqiva Awards, and was shortlisted for Speech programme of the year at the 2013 Sony Radio Awards. In 2014 he won a Sony Award for ‘Best Interview of the Year'.
He joined LBC in 2010 and presented the Drivetime show for five and a half years, from March 2013 until August 2018. He has presented four LBC General Election Night Shows, two American Presidential Election overnight shows, as well as the stations Scottish and Brexit referendum night shows.
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This year he has two new books being published – in August Why Can't We All Get Along: Shout Less, Listen More (Harper Collins, Hardback, £12.99) and in November The Prime Ministers 1721-2020: Three Hundred Years of Political Leadership (Hodder & Stoughton, Hardback, £25).
Iain is a visiting professor of politics and broadcasting at the University of East Anglia, which he graduated from in 1985 with a degree in German and Linguistics.
Iain was a panellist on CNN Talk on CNN International and is a regular contributor to Newsnight, the Andrew Marr Show, Good Morning Britain and Channel 5's Jeremy Vine (formerly The Wright Stuff)
Iain co-hosts a weekly podcast with former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith called ‘For the Many', the ‘Iain Dale Book Club' podcast, the Iain Dale All Talk podcast and also a podcast of his weekly ‘Cross Question' political panel show - all available through iTunes, Google Podcasts and all other major podcast platforms.
Until June 2018 Iain was managing director of Britain's leading political publisher, Biteback Publishing. He formed the company in 2009 and published more than 600 books including Power Trip by Damian McBride and the bestseller, Call me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron by Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott as well as The Alastair Campbell Diaries.
Iain is one of Britain's leading political commentators and bloggers. He is a regular columnist for the Telegraph, Evening Standard and ‘I' paper. He has been a contributing editor for GQ Magazine, writes for various national newspapers and for seven years penned a weekly diary for the Eastern Daily Press. For five years he wrote a monthly column in the gay lifestyle magazine, Attitude and was a regular presenter of Radio 4's What the Papers Say. He writes a weekly diary column for ConservativeHome.com and is the media critics for Reaction.Life. He is a contributing editor to MACE magazine.
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He founded Total Politics magazine (sold to Dod's in December 2012) and was the brains behind Politico's Bookstore and Politico's Publishing. He was a presenter of Radio 5 Live's Sunday Service programme alongside Fi Glover and Charlie Whelan from 2000 to 2004 and presented Planet Politics on Oneword Radio. He is a regular panellist on Radio 4's Any Questions and has appeared twice on BBC1's Question Time.
Iain is a former parliamentary researcher and chief of staff to David Davis MP. He was a political lobbyist, financial journalist and is the creator and host of the theatre production A Night With Ann Widdecombe, which toured provincial theatres all around the country. He stood for Parliament at the 2005 general election in North Norfolk, but has now given up active politics.
Iain has written or edited more than forty books including The NHS: Things That Need to be Said, Memories of Margaret Thatcher, The Big Book of Boris, 500 of the Most Acerbic, Witty & Erudite Things Ever Said About Politics, West Ham: When Football Was Football & Norwich City: When Football Was Football. His latest book, co-edited with Jacqui Smith is Honourable Ladies: Profiles of Women MPs 1918-2019.
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Iain grew up near Saffron Walden in Essex but now splits his time between his main Tunbridge Wells and Norfolk. He is married to John.
He also blogs on politics, current affairs, media and radio at iaindale.com and edits westhamtillidie.com. He can be found on Twitter @iaindale.
