Ben Kentish

The RAC said young motorists ‘are being affected by rising prices’.

HMV shut the store in 2019 after the retail chain tumbled into administration and was forced to axe stores and jobs.

Ben Kentish questions the government’s slow approach to banning XL Bully dogs. Finally, the Home Secretary seems to be determined to act against the vile creatures (and I know people will be offended by that but in my view that’s what they are) that are the XL Bully dogs.These dogs should have been banned long ago. They are responsible for about two thirds of the dog attacks in this country. Yet another incident this weekend, an eleven-year-old girl mauled by one of these XL Bullies. A vicious a…

Ben Kentish questions the government's slow approach to banning XL Bully dogs.

The Deputy Prime Minister has been accused of misleading Parliament after using a “baseless” statistic while covering for his boss during Prime Minister’s Questions last month. Oliver Dowden, the Cabinet Office minister who also acts as Rishi Sunak’s deputy, claimed in the House of Commons that Labour’s plans to invest £28bn a year in green energy would add £1,000 a year to “everyone’s mortgages”.Mr Dowden told Parliament: “The Labour Party talks about good use of taxpayers’ money, but what do…

The Deputy Prime Minister has been accused of misleading Parliament after using a "baseless" statistic while covering for his boss during Prime Minister’s Questions last month.

The Privileges Committee’s report into whether Boris Johnson’s lied to Parliament is a proper marmalade-dropper. I have read hundreds of parliamentary reports. I’ve never read one like this. Usually, committees of MPs report in coded, cautious terms. Things that go wrong are “regrettable” or “disappointing”. People who commit wrongdoing have “questions to answer”. Not the Privileges Committee. Not in this report.The 30,000 word, 106-page evisceration of Boris Johnson’s conduct is brutal. In almo…

A lot has changed since Joe Biden congratulated “Rashid Sanook” on becoming the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom last October. While not natural bedfellows personally or politically, the two leaders have developed a closer relationship in recent months thanks to several meetings in close succession - this one, here in Washington DC, being the fourth in as many months. It was also Sunak’s first visit to the White House - a significant moment for any British PM. But was it a success?Well,…

I flew to the US with Rishi Sunak this week as the Prime Minister prepared to discuss economic security and the AI revolution with Joe Biden.

I flew to the US with Rishi Sunak this week as the Prime Minister prepared to discuss economic security and the AI revolution with Joe Biden. Mr Sunak arrived late on Tuesday night in Washington DC and is set to meet Mr Biden on Thursday, following talks with business leaders and members of Congress on Wednesday.The Prime Minister wants to work with the US and President Biden to ensure that the way in which our countries have cooperated on traditional security - military security and defence - i…

The vast majority of people in the UK have lost faith that the NHS will be able to offer them an acceptable level of care if they fall ill, shocking new figures seen by LBC have revealed. Almost four in five Britons now expect to face a lengthy wait for an ambulance in an emergency, according to a new survey, while three in four think it is likely that they would need to be treated in a hospital corridor due to a lack of available beds.More than eight in ten people predict they would face a long…

More than a million people in England are living in social homes that do not meet basic health and safety standards, LBC analysis following the tragic death of Awaab Ishak has revealed. The shocking figures reveal that 1.2 million people – equating to more than one in eight households living in social housing - are dealing with health risks such as damp, pests, asbestos and overcrowding.Of the 4 million households living in social homes in England, 517,000 households are in properties that do no…

Surely, no other room has witnessed quite so much. Once, the high, arched, oak beams of Westminster Hall looked down upon coronation banquets: of Normans, Tudors, Stuarts; of Richard the Lionheart, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I.

Boris Johnson used a private jet to travel to north-west England on Thursday morning despite the journey taking just 3 hours by train, LBC can reveal. The Prime Minister flew from London Stansted to Warton Airport on a government charter plane and was due to fly back on Thursday evening.The flight takes around 40 minutes each way, but would also involve up to around a 2 hour and 30 minute round trip by car from Downing Street to London Stansted and back again.The journey by car and plane is esti…

The UK has less capacity for carrying out vital PCR tests - as the Omicron variant spreads rapidly across the country - than it did almost a year ago, analysis by LBC has found.

Boris Johnson's aides joking about a Downing Street Christmas party is the final bombshell that could turn the public against him, writes Ben Kentish.

Boris Johnson's aides joking about a Downing Street Christmas party is the final bombshell that could turn the public against him, writes Ben Kentish.

This was supposed to be Boris Johnson’s global moment but instead he found himself embroiled in a “sleaze” scandal where he was forced to insist the UK is not corrupt, writes Ben Kentish. In the many months – years, in fact – that the UK government spent planning the crucial COP26 climate summit, never would they have imagined that the British Prime Minister would end up using one of his two press conferences at the event to insist that the country he led was not corrupt.And yet so it proved. Wi…

Boris Johnson’s long-awaited Cabinet reshuffle went further than many in Westminster expected, writes Ben Kentish.

One hundred and ten direct flights from India have landed in the UK in the three and a half weeks since the country was placed on the travel Red List amid rising concerns about Covid-19 variants, LBC can reveal. Analysis of flight data by LBC shows that direct flights from India have continued to land in the UK at a rate of 4.5 per day, despite growing fears about a variant that has spread rapidly and quickly become dominant across much of India.While the UK government has banned direct flights…