Ben Kentish

United Kingdom

Presenter and Westminster Editor at LBC

Presenter “Late Nights with Ben Kentish” @LBC 10pm-1am Mon-Thurs | Ex-Westminster Editor | Columnist @theipaper | Instagram: benkentishlbc | @barnetfc sufferer

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Articles

OPINION: Trump's contempt for supposed allies threatens Israel's security and peace

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Ben Kentish

You can accuse Donald Trump of many things, but wasting time isn’t one of them. Trump has been back in office for less than two months and has spent much of that time rapidly unravelling America’s historic diplomatic ties and trashing its alliances. He has repeatedly threatened not to come to the defence of NATO allies if they are attacked, undermining the very purpose of that military alliance. And he has hit close US allies and neighbours like Mexico and Canada with punishing tariffs.
Ending the housing crisis means taxing pensioners who won’t downsize

Nov 25, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Ben Kentish

Britain has a housing crisis. That much, everybody knows. We hear it time and time again: we don’t have enough homes. We must build and build and build. More and more parts of the country must be concreted over. In many parts of the UK this is true: supply has not kept up with demand. But – and this may surprise you – this country actually has more homes than it has households.
Labour's got a big problem with Wes Streeting

Nov 18, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Ben Kentish

Next Friday’s vote on assisted dying has left many MPs facing a major dilemma. While some have long-standing and deeply held views on the issue, others do not. These waverers are listening carefully to all sides and grappling with their consciences; many have still not decided how to vote.
Labour is doing Nigel Farage's PR for him

Nov 4, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Ben Kentish

It did not take long in the end – just 78 minutes, in fact. That was all the time that was needed for Rachel Reeves, delivering the Budget last week, to tear up a plethora of promises that she and her party had made over the course of several years. One by one they fell. Having vowed not to “fiddle” her fiscal rules “to get different results”, she did precisely that. After pledging not to increase national insurance, she did.
Rachel Reeves’s plan to tax the wealthy is exactly what this country needs

Oct 29, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Ben Kentish

There was a time when you’d find out directly from the chancellor of the exchequer what would be in the Budget; now, most of it is published in the newspapers days before. And so it is that we have a good idea of what Rachel Reeves will say on Wednesday, when she stands up to deliver the first Labour Budget in 15 years and the first by a female chancellor in British history.
Rachel Reeves’s biggest Budget mistake

Oct 21, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Ben Kentish

“A country with its future back” is a slogan that Keir Starmer used repeatedly during the election campaign, and one the Prime Minister has repeated many times since. But if the line works as a nifty soundbite, it doesn’t survive contact with reality. Britain doesn’t have its future back. Far from it.
Rachel Reeves is fast running out of options

Oct 14, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Ben Kentish

When Labour’s newly-appointed Cabinet ministers entered their respective departments on the morning of Friday 5 July, sleep-deprived but giddy after their historic election win, they were in no doubt about the scale of the task before them. The economy was struggling, public services were in an atrocious state, government coffers were empty and the public was clamouring for change. Yet none of them would have foreseen just how difficult their first few months would prove to be.
The ludicrous Tory leadership race has left Kemi Badenoch wanting

Oct 7, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Ben Kentish

When a small number of Conservative backbenchers gathered in a stuffy House of Commons committee room in mid-July, the meeting received little attention. Their party had just been brutally booted out of power. Almost three-quarters of their colleagues had lost their seats. The media were focused on more pressing matters: Keir Starmer was busy getting to work as Labour’s first Prime Minister in 14 years. Yet that meeting was an important one.
The worst is still to come for the Tory party

Oct 1, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Ben Kentish

As any Hollywood aficionado could tell you, the idea of parallel universes has long been a favourite of novelists and scriptwriters. You know the jist: a vortex opens up, someone stumbles through it and emerges into a world similar to our own but also entirely different. What was once thought to be the preserve of science fiction could, in theory at least, be real. The notion is all but impossible to test, but those who make the case were handed a major boost this week.
Labour's Angela Rayner problem

Sep 23, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Ben Kentish

Labour’s first party conference in government in 15 years was supposed to be a triumphant afterparty – a barnstorming celebration of July’s historic election win, combined with some upbeat messages about how the new Government was going to change Britain for good. Listening to the parade of Cabinet ministers on the conference stage, that is exactly how it might seem. But away from the main events, the gathering is a frustration-fest.