Iain Dale

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Iain Campbell Dale (born 15 July 1962) is an English broadcaster, political commentator and publisher.

Dale writes the British political blog Iain Dale's Diary (founded in 2002) and frequently appears on UK news channels.

In September 2003, he became the first openly gay Conservative candidate to contest a Parliamentary election.Dale was the managing director of Biteback Publishing until May 2018, and was the publisher of Total Politics magazine, 2008–12.

Since September 2010, he has hosted a regular, major discussion show on LBC radio station.

In both July 2013 and 2016, he won Radio Presenter of the Year at the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards.

Early life and education

Dale was born in Cambridge and grew up in Essex, where he attended Ashdon County Primary School and Saffron Walden County High School. After a gap year in which he worked as a nursing assistant at the Werner Wicker Klinik in West Germany, he read German, linguistics and teaching English as a foreign language at the University of East Anglia; his course included a year in which he taught English at the gymnasium in Besigheim. He was awarded an upper second class honours BA in 1985.

Personal life

Dale has been openly gay since he was 40. He entered into a civil partnership with his long-term partner John Simmons on 15 June 2008 at Wadhurst Castle in East Sussex which was then converted to a marriage in 2015. They have been together since 1995 and live in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Before Dale met Simmons, he lived in Walthamstow, east London, for six years from 1988.

On 24 September 2013, Dale became involved in a scuffle with Manchester pensioner Stuart Holmes, an anti-nuclear protester, on the Brighton seafront. Holmes' placard had appeared on-screen behind Damian McBride, during an interview with McBride on breakfast television, coinciding with the Labour Party annual conference there. McBride, a former special advisor to Gordon Brown, is one of Dale's authors at Biteback Publishing. Dale, who was not involved in the television interview, attempted to physically remove Holmes from the shot, resulting in the two men grappling on the ground. On 26 September, Dale accepted a police caution for the assault. Sussex Police had interviewed both men about the incident.

Dale subsequently posted an apology "to Mr Holmes, Mr Miliband [then-Labour Party leader], the Police, my family, friends and colleagues".

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Career

Dale, a research assistant to the Conservative Member of Parliament (1985-87), a financial journalist with Lloyd's List (1989–90) and then deputy managing director of the Waterfront Conference Company (1990–96).

Dale wrote a fortnightly column for The Daily Telegraph from 2007 to 2009. He has also contributed to The Guardian, The Independent, GQ, The Spectator, Attitude, and The New Statesman.

Dale wrote a weekly diary column for the Eastern Daily Press between 2006 and 2013. In December 2018, it was announced that it would contribute a new weekly column to both the Eastern Daily Press and its Archant stablemate, the East Anglian Daily Times.

Dale has written or edited 46 political books. In May 2006, we co-authorized a book with fellow blogger Paul Staines (responsible for the Guido Fawkes website) about suspected instances of sleaze from the Labour government, which was published in May 2006. In June 2007, a second edition was published.

Dale has researched histories of West Ham United and Norwich City football clubs for Haynes Publishing, as well as a book titled The NHS: Things That Need to be Said for Elliott & Thompson in 2015. Honourable Ladies, Rob Smith's co-edited book, and it is a collection of biographical essays of every female MP elected to the House of Commons since 1918. In 2019, a second volume was published.

Dale got his start in radio on BBC Radio 5 Live, where he was the regular reporter for Andrew Pierce on Sunday's Service with Fi Glover and Charlie Whelan. On the night of the 2001 general election, he hosted a documentary on how the BBC covers general election results, Counting Chickens. He also appeared on BBC Radio Four's The Westminster Hour, People & Politics, and a number of episodes of What the Papers Say between 2010 and 2016.

After doing a few test programmes with other journalists, Dale became a stand-in presenter for the London radio station LBC 97.3 during the first nine months of 2010. Gaby Hinsliff co-presented LBC's six-hour election night program on May 7, 2010. He outlined the Petrie Hosken, Clive Bull, James Max, and Jeni Barnett phone-in shows in May and June 2010, and LBC's budget coverage began on June 22nd, 2010.

Dale began a six-week stint on LBC coverage for Petrie Hosken and Andrew Pierce, which later developed to a regular show. Dale was the LBC's weekly evening host from 7 to ten p.m. until Clive Bull took over in March 2013. Dale has since taken over broadcaster James Whale as the host of the Drivetime show from 4 p.m. to Friday. Until Andrew Gilligan took over in March 2013, he continued to host the station's Sunday Politics show from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. every weekend. LBC changed their fall schedule on September 3: Dale moved to the evening show (7–10 p.m.) on September 3rd.

Dale is a former journalist for Oneword Radio. He was also the chief host of the failed internet TV station 18 Doughty Street.

Dale was shortlisted for the 2013 Sony Radio Academy Awards' Speech Radio Programme of the Year, and then went on to win Radio Presenter of the Year at the 2013 and 2016 Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards. At the 2014 Sony Awards for his interview with James from Woolwich, who was an eyewitness to Lee Rigby's assassination.

Dale co-hosts a weekly political and current affairs podcast named For The Many, alongside Jacqui Smith.

Dale has appeared on television shows including Newsnight, The Andrew Marr Show, Jeremy Vine, and Good Morning Britain.

Dale's Diary, an Iain Dale blog, was written. In 2005, The Guardian was nominated for the Political Blog of the Year Award.

Dale & Co., a democratic blog site, was founded in July 2011 by Dale & Co, with many political contributors, including himself. In which he writes about West Ham United, he maintains his blog entitled West Ham Till I Die.

Dale writes a weekly diary column for the website ConservativeHome, where he also posts his annual list of the '100 Most Influential People on the Right.'

Dale's Bookstore and Coffee House in Westminster opened in 1997, selling political books, memorabilia, and novelty items. The shop spawned sister publishing and web design companies that used the Politico brand. Politico's Publishing, which he sold to Methuen Publishing in 1998, he extended his operation in 1998 by the introduction of a publishing division. He announced the closing of his bricks-and-mortar store and moved his company to Kent as a mail-order operation in 2004. Methuen reopened his Westminster Bookshop later this year.

Dale sold his Politico's Bookstore operation to Harriman House in 2006. In 2012, he relaunched Politico's online as part of his Biteback Publishing company. He was also the editor of Total Politics magazine from June 2008 to its transfer to Dods (Group) PLC in December 2012.

Political career

Dale defeated North Norfolk's Conservative nominee, Norman Lamb, in the general election in May 2005. Dale served as the chief of staff to the losing leadership candidate David Davis in the run-up to the 2005 Conservative Party leadership race.

Dale had been elected to the Conservative A-List of candidates for the upcoming general election in August 2006. He unsuccessfully applied for the safe seat in Maidstone and The Weald.

Dale, a former Conservative minister of Bracknell, was up for re-election in October 2009 to replace Andrew MacKay, who resigned at the 2010 general election. In the run-off ballot, Dale came third, behind Rory Stewart and eventual winner Philip Lee.

Dale resigned from the Conservative Party's list on June 17 and will not be voting in any forthcoming parliamentary election, according to Dale on his website. Dale declared on December 14 that he was no longer blogging at Iain Dale's Diary and party politics.

Dale voted for "Leave" in the 2016 EU referendum.

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