BIOGRAPHY
Iain Dale is one of Britain's leading political commentators, appearing regularly on TV and radio. Iain is best known for his political blog, Iain Dale's Diary and football blog, West Ham Till I Die. He is a contributing editor and columnist for GQ Magazine, writes for the Daily Telegraph and a fortnightly diary for the Eastern Daily Press. He presents a weekly Friday night political talk radio programme on Play Talk and was the chief anchor of Britain's first political internet TV channel, 18 Doughty Street.com. He is the publisher of the monthly magazine, Total Politics and the author or editor of nearly thirty books.
Iain stood as a Conservative candidate at the last election and was Chief of Staff to the Rt Hon David Davis MP in the recent Conservative Party leadership election. He is a former political lobbyist, financial journalist and publisher and was the founder of Politico's Bookstore. He is the creator and host of the theatre production A Night With Ann Widdecombe, which tours provincial theatres all round the country. He is Director of the Conservative History Group and co-director of the Campaign for Fixed Term Parliaments. Iain is also a vocal proponent of an English Parliament.
Iain is an accomplished public speaker, and has just been signed up by the Specialist Speakers bureau. He is much in demand for both set-piece speeches on current affairs, as well as humorous after dinner type speeches.
He is a former financial journalist with Lloyds List, and was a political lobbyist before setting up his own political bookselling and publishing company, Politico's, in the late 1990s. He was a presenter of Radio 5 Live's Sunday Service programme alongside Fi Glover and Charlie Whelan from 2000 to 2004, and presented 5 Live's 2001 election night documentary Counting Chickens.
Articles about Iain
- James Silver on Total Politics
- Press Gazette on Total Politics
- Independent feature on Iain
- London's Top 1000 Influential People of 2007
- Top 50 LGB People in Politics, Pink News
- Top 50 People in Online Journalism, Press Gazette
- Iain Dale's Wikipedia page
- Time Magazine interview
- The World According to Iain Dale, The Independent
- Me & My Partner, The Independent
- The Retailing of Politics, The Independent
- The Opening of Politico's, The Independent
The following are among his programme credits: Breakfast with Frost, Today Programme, Simon Mayo Show, Question Time Extra, 5 Live Breakfast, 5 Live Drive, Victoria Derbyshire, the Jon Gaunt Show, The Panel (Irish equivalent of Have I Got News for You), Steve Wright Show, The Sandy Toksvig LBC Show, Sunday AM, Between the Lines (Press TV), Newsnight, News at Ten.
Iain has written or edited more than twenty books including Margaret Thatcher: A Tribute in Words & Pictures, The Little Book of Boris and 500 of the Most Acerbic, Witty & Erudite Things Ever Said About Politics.
