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“So how shall we launch our new political party with a bang?” “Maybe just post it on X at 8.11pm on a Thursday night?” “Great”

Surely the first time in British politics that there’s been a split in a party consisting of two people

- Don't try to out-Farage Farage - Focus on delivery - Turning points, not talking points Polling expert Joe Twyman gives Labour advice on how to hold their own against Zarah Sultana's possible new party. Ben Kentish

'You think he's as bad as Liz Truss?!' 'Yes.' A year after Keir Starmer's general election win, caller Shivran surprises Ben Kentish by branding him as 'the most hapless, supine Prime Minister we've ever had'.

✍️ New The i Paper column on the lessons the government needs to learn from the last week - and why the briefing this weekend is the exact opposite of them inews.co.uk/opinion/keir-s…

Evening! On the show: 🔴 Should the Labour government introduce a wealth tax? 🔵 How did missing out on SEND support affect you or your children? 🌑As Lewis Capaldi opens up about how threrapy changed his life, has it changed yours? Join us LBC right now

"We don’t believe the figures, we think the figures are bogus." Stephen Kinsella of Patriotic Millionaires UK dismisses claims that the wealthy would flee a UK wealth tax, telling Ben Kentish their polling shows 85% of those with over £10m would willingly pay 2%.

The triple lock has cost around 3x more than expected. In our central projection, the triple lock explains 1.6pts of the 2.7% of GDP rise in state pension spending. If recent volatility persists, it could add a further 1.5pts; a steadier path could reduce it by 1.3pts.

This is completely unsustainable, and any politician who continues to insist otherwise is lying.

It is shocking to see these comments from a Member of Parliament. It is disgraceful to use the Holocaust as a stick to beat the world's only Jewish state. Whatever one thinks of what is happening on Gaza, raising the spectre of gas chambers which were used for the industrialised

Earlier today, Richard Hughes, chair of the OBR, got to the heart of a significant problem with British politics, which is that politicians don’t feel able to be honest about what is achievable. “The UK public finances are in an unsustainable position in the long run. The UK

‘Do you worry about the consequences of these strikes, people dying?’ ‘No...’ Ben Kentish interrogates the idea that resident doctors like caller Asif ‘just want a fair deal’.

"Water firm warns of possible hosepipe ban." So here's a prediction for you, unless there is biblical amounts of rain over the next few weeks by the end of August most of England will be operating under a hose pipes ban. Severn Trent, Anglian Water, Thames Water, Souther Water

On tonight’s show: 🔴 Do we need to accept we’ll all have to pay more tax to get Britain back on its feet? 🔵 The twin brother of a woman who died after her antivaxxer mother stopped her being treated for cancer joins us - why have conspiracy theories become so common? ⚫️ More

"I watched a six-part documentary on YouTube and the evidence was satisfactory." Joanna explains to Ben Kentish how conspiracy theories take grip online... before revealing she believes President Macron's wife is actually a man.

Great piece by Hugo Gye. It’s long past time politicians started being honest about the triple lock inews.co.uk/opinion/the-en…