Rishi Sunak was an MP for 6.5 years, a UK government minister for 3.5 years and Chancellor of the Exchequer for 1.5 years - all while holding permanent residency of the United States.
Ben Kentish
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Ben Kentish
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Presenter “Late Nights with Ben Kentish” @LBC 10pm-1am Mon-Thurs | Ex-Westminster Editor | Columnist @theipaper | Instagram: benkentishlbc | @barnetfc sufferer
Joined June 2010
- Allegra Stratton resigned for joking about a party. Martin Reynolds hasn’t resigned for organising a party. Nobody has resigned for actually attending any of the parties.
- I get the anger but this “They didn’t follow the rules so why did I?” narrative is sad. People feel their sacrifices didn’t count for anything but they did: many thousands of people in this country are alive today because most of us did follow the rules. Worth remembering that.
- One Conservative MP this afternoon: “Today is the day the Prime Minister is safe. Today is also the day the Conservatives lost the next general election .”
- Very difficult now for ministers to argue that giving doctors, teachers, nurses and police officers a bigger pay rise would be inflationary, while giving those earning £150,000+ a huge income tax cut.
- I was told by Tory MPs, at the height of the Rashford row, that members of the govt were threatening to withhold money from schools in their (deprived) constituencies if they voted to extend free school meals. These practices aren’t new but Will Wragg has shone a light on them.
- For 300 years no prime minister was found to have broken the law while in office. It’s now happened twice in nine months.
- Cost of compulsory national service: £2.5bn a year. Cost of pay rise for junior doctors that ministers insist is “simply unaffordable”: £2bn a year.
- Claiming that a £2 billion pay rise for junior doctors is unaffordable would be more compelling if you hadn’t been telling journalists a fortnight ago that you were considering spending £8 billion on scrapping inheritance tax…
- Boris Johnson quicker to remove the whip from Tobias Ellwood than he was with Chris Pincher.
- Home Office refusing to provide any comment on why Suella Braverman appears to have used a Chinook helicopter to travel 20 miles between Dover and Manston this afternoon. It's a 30-minute journey by car.
- It doesn’t matter whether or not Boris Johnson thought the party was illegal. That’s not how the law works.
