Ben Kentish
Presenter and Westminster Editor at LBC
Columnist at The i Paper
Presenter “Late Nights with Ben Kentish” @LBC 10pm-1am Mon-Thurs | Ex-Westminster Editor | Columnist @theipaper | Instagram: benkentishlbc | @barnetfc sufferer
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2 months 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Should it be made easier or harder for care workers to come and work in Britain? Harder: 12% Easier: 54% (Source: Kantor polling for the Migration Observatory)
If the government wants care workers to be paid more them maybe it should have exempted their employers from the National Insurance hike, as it was repeatedly urged to do.
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