Benjamin Butterworth

Journalist and broadcaster

Benjamin Butterworth is a British journalist and broadcaster who has served as a senior reporter at the i newspaper for eight years and has also written for the Washington Post and the Guardian. He has interviewed six British prime ministers and is a regular commentator on Sky News and GB News. As a reporter for the i, he secured a world-exclusive late-night phone interview with the Taliban as they retook Afghanistan, has toured post-Assad Syria, hiked across Yemen and crossed the Sahara in Mauritania on what is described as the world's most dangerous train, and has reported from Baghdad and Mosul. He has repeatedly been named among Britain's most influential LGBT people on the Pride Power List published by the Guardian.