The Daily T

Rachel Reeves has admitted that next month’s Autumn Budget will see Labour raise taxes on the wealthy. As she was heading to Washington for meetings with the IMF, The Chancellor told Sky News she was “looking at tax and spending” ahead of the November 26th fiscal event, and then went on to tell The Guardian that taxes on the wealthy “will be part of the story”. On today’s Daily T podcast, Camilla...

It’s the fourth anniversary of the murder of Sir David Amess, the Conservative MP who was killed by an Islamic State sympathiser during a surgery in his Southend constituency. At Prime Minister’s Questions this lunchtime, Sir Keir Starmer paid tribute to a “much-loved”, “kind” and “generous” man and talked of the “huge loss” many across the house still feel. Watching on from her home in Los Angele...

The Government is under huge pressure to explain why the high-profile trial of two men accused of spying for China collapsed just weeks before it was due to begin. Former parliamentary researcher Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry were charged under the Official Secrets Act, accused of gathering sensitive information for Beijing between December 2021 and February 2023. Both men have always mai...

On today's Daily T, we bring you an exclusive interview with former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Boris joined us in the studio on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Margaret Thatcher, and he makes the case for why he was right to follow the science over Covid lockdowns, why Kemi Badenoch is the best person to lead the Conservatives and how the current Prime Minister has "made no diff...

Paul Burrell – former servant of the British Royal household and personal butler to Diana, Princess of Wales – joins Camilla and Tim in the Daily T studio to discuss his revealing new book The Royal Insider. Burrell spent over a decade serving Queen Elizabeth II before working for King Charles III and Diana at Highgrove. He opens up about life behind palace walls, including extraordinary priv...

It was an astonishing moment in the White House last night, as Donald Trump was interrupted by his secretary of state Marco Rubio during a press conference discussing radical ‘Antifa’ groups with some major news - a peace deal in Gaza was close to being struck. If Trump can pull off peace in the region, then calls for him to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which happens to be announced on Friday, will...

On the final day of Conservative conference, Kemi Badenoch has pulled out a speech that could well save the Tories. Camilla and Tim say the performance secured Badenoch's job (at least for now), issued a clear message to Robert Jenrick to "get back in his box" and dropped a "big Conservative policy bomb" in the shape of a pledge to scrap stamp duty. They also spoke to Tory members as they left the...

Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick joined the Daily T for an exclusive live in-conversation event at the Conservative party conference earlier today, which you can listen to in full on today’s edition of the podcast. Speaking to Camilla and Tim on day three of the conference in Manchester, he defended footage leaked to The Guardian in which he says he “didn’t see another white face” whilst fi...

The shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride gave the keynote speech on day two of the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, and painted the Tories as the only party trying to save the high street, as he promised to scrap business rates for 250,000 pubs, restaurants and other small businesses. Joining the Daily T after his speech, Sir Mel told Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley that he’s comfortable c...

Following the deadly attack on a synagogue in Manchester, the Home Secretary has called for pro-Palestinian protests to be cancelled this weekend and condemned those that went ahead on Thursday. Camilla and Tim speak to the chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, Gideon Falter, who says he doesn’t know “if there’s a place for Jews any more” in the UK and that “this country is failing...

Sir David Davis, the former Brexit secretary, has called on Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, to provide the full reasoning behind the decision to cut funding for Nigel Farage’s security detail. Despite being a political rival of Mr Farage, the veteran Tory MP tells Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley on today’s Daily T that the Government’s “premeditated” labelling of the Reform leader as racist a...

The Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has been forced to backtrack on claims at Labour conference he on Monday, having accused Nigel Farage of “once flirting with Hitler Youth when he was younger”.  Camilla and Tim speak to the Reform leader’s biographer Michael Crick, who tells them he “came to the conclusion that Farage isn’t a racist” and that Lammy was “reckless” in saying so. Elsewhere,...

Sir Keir Starmer takes centre stage at the Labour conference as his leadership faces pressure from Andy Burnham’s party coup and the growing threat of Nigel Farage’s Reform. During his speech, the Prime Minister admitted that Labour had “patronised” working people on immigration, promising to ‘build a Britain for all’ as minister waved flags in the audience. Camilla and Tim react to ‘slippery’ Sta...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has used her Labour conference speech in Liverpool to prepare the ground for Budget tax rises, despite the Government’s election pledge not to ‘increase taxes on working people’. Although she said she won’t take risks with the public finances, Reeves warned of “harder choices” to come, meaning working families could soon be paying the price for Labour’s big-spending promis...

The first female general secretary of the Unite union is clear about her priorities: “jobs, pay, and conditions”. She is also convinced that Labour is failing to improve all three. Unite is one of the party’s biggest financial and political backers, but Sharon Graham says Labour has strayed from its working class roots. Now she is threatening to pull the union’s funding for the party entirely. In...

The Manchester mayor is on manoeuvres: Andy Burnham told the Telegraph that several Labour MPs have called on him to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership. Tim and Camilla speak to Tony Diver, the journalist who got the scoop, to ask if Burnham could actually pull it off and about his history as a political chameleon, having served Blair, Brown and Corbyn. Meanwhile, is another embarras...

Among the claims Donald Trump made in his blistering UN speech was that Sadiq Khan is “terrible” and “they want to go to sharia law”. The London mayor has called the comments “Islamophobic”, but are there legitimate concerns to be had about the "shadow system" of approximately 85 sharia courts operating in the UK? Camilla and Tim speak to Fiyaz Mughal, founder of anti-Muslim monitoring project Tel...

After decades of gaffes and scandals, often involving her ex-husband Prince Andrew, it seemed Sarah Ferguson was on the path to royal redemption. That is until a series of her emails to Jeffrey Epstein were leaked, in which she called the convicted paedophile a “supreme friend”. Camilla and Tim are joined by royal biographer Andrew Lownie to react to the revelations about Fergie, who has been drop...

Reform UK says it will deport hundreds of thousands of legal migrants if elected to government. Nigel Farage has set out plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain, ban migrants from ever accessing benefits or the NHS, and raise the language and salary requirements for all foreign nationals. Camilla caught up with the Reform leader to ask if the proposals are a “two-fingered salute” to business and...

In an exclusive interview with The Daily T podcast, Dame Penny Mordaunt opens up about losing her Portsmouth North seat at the 2024 General Election - and why she blames Rishi Sunak’s D-Day blunder for the defeat. The former Conservative leadership contender reflects on the Torie's time in power, her viral moment after carrying a sword during the Coronation and why she worked as a magician's assis...

Earlier today, President Donald Trump joined Sir Keir Starmer for a press conference at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country house. Camilla Tominey and Rob Crilly give their thoughts on the press conference in which Trump urged Starmer to ‘drill, baby, drill’ in the North Sea to cut energy bills and use the military to stop the boats. The leaders also spoke about the current conflicts, with Trum...

Donald Trump has spent the day at Windsor Castle as he undertakes the first day of his unprecedented second state visit to Britain. Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley were on the ground watching events unfold as the President touched down in his helicopter - ‘Marine One’ - at lunchtime, before taking a tour of the grounds at Windsor alongside the King and Queen. The Daily Telegraph’s Royal Edito...

Sir Keir Starmer is facing mounting pressure in Parliament over his handling of Lord Mandelson’s resignation as US ambassador.  Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has accused Starmer and his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney of having “forced through” Mandelson’s appointment, despite warnings, with the party demanding the release of the so-called “Mandelson-Epstein files”. Camilla and Tim ask if the con...

Danny Kruger, the Conservative MP for East Wiltshire and shadow work and pensions minister, has defected to Reform - becoming the first sitting Tory MP to do so and the most high-profile to date. Declaring that the Conservatives are “over’, Danny Kruger was unveiled by Nigel Farage at a press conference this lunchtime, dealing a huge blow to Kemi Badenoch’s efforts to rebuild the party.&...

He held almost every Cabinet position during his two decades as an MP, perhaps most notably as a reformist education secretary. He also had a very public falling out with his old pals David Cameron and Boris Johnson. Now Michael Gove has returned to his roots as a journalist, taking on the editorship of The Spectator and launching a new podcast, Quite Right. Lord Gove talks to Camilla and Tim...