Politics
From 1985-1992 Kent succeeded the late Sean MacBride as President of the International Peace Bureau.
In 1992 Kent was a candidate for the Labour Party in the constituency of Oxford West and Abingdon, where he came third. Had he been elected, he would at the time have been prevented, as an ordained priest, from taking his seat in the House of Commons. Sitting Member of Parliament and former Conservative minister John Patten, also a Catholic, retained his seat. Kent is also a member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
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