The Daily T

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...

In an entirely predictable turn of events, just twenty four hours after publicly backing the US Ambassador, Keir Starmer has now sacked Peter Mandelson after "additional information" came to light about the nature of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Whilst it could, and perhaps should, mean that Mandelson's long political career has been brought to an end, it also reflects just as ba...

It's shaping up to be Keir Starmer's worst week since...last week.  The PM is facing calls to sack US Ambassador Lord Mandelson after new revelations about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Camilla and Tim speak to Robert Mendick, the Telegraph journalist behind some of the most damning reports, including that Mandelson worked with Epstein on a £1bn business deal even after his conviction for chil...

The Tories are the only party that can be trusted on the economy, not Labour or Reform, Kemi Badenoch said today. But is anyone listening? After a speech in which she offered to work with Keir Starmer on welfare reform, Camilla and Tim ask the Conservative leader if there is really any substance to her plans. Plus, the deputy Labour leadership election has rapidly descended into a battle of identi...

Labour is in disarray since Angela Rayner’s resignation, even as the Prime Minister tries to seize back the narrative by reshuffling his Cabinet. Tim and Camilla are joined by Jacob Rees-Mogg to assess the refreshed front bench. Meanwhile Keir Starmer is being held to ransom by the unions, with striking Tube drivers demanding fewer hours for the same pay. Rees-Mogg says: “fire the lot of them”. Pl...

Angela Rayner has finally resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary, after days of ever-increasing pressure over the underpaying of stamp duty on the purchase of a second home in Hove. Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley bring you today’s Daily T from Reform UK’s party conference in Birmingham, where they spoke to deputy leader Richard Tice, Reform’s newest MP Sarah Pochin, and supporter...

Angela Rayner is hanging on to her job by a thread. As fresh details emerged in The Daily Telegraph about how she used NHS compensation to fund the purchase of her second home, senior Labour figures looked to be distancing themselves from the Deputy Prime Minister. Rachel Reeves made a point of telling broadcasters it is “on all of us” to understand tax rules, before No 10 refused to guarantee she...

Angela Rayner has referred herself to the government’s ethics adviser after admitting to underpaying tax on her second home, casting serious doubt on her future. Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary, gave a tearful interview to Sky News this lunchtime in which she said she had considered resigning following days of ever-mounting questions over an unpaid £40,000 stamp duty bill o...

The British countryside is “overwhelmingly white” and needs more halal food, a report has claimed. Camilla and Tim ask Corinne Fowler, one of the co-authors, about the claim that ethnic minority people experience a “psychological burden” from “navigating predominantly white spaces” in rural Britain. They are also joined by Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, aka The Black Farmer, who says expecting urban...

Labour have marked the return to school with a mini-reshuffle in Downing Street, elevating a handful of ‘star pupils’ into key Government roles.  Among them is Treasury minister Darren Jones, now promoted to Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister – a new position with a seat at the Cabinet table. But the shake-up risks undermining Chancellor Rachel Reeves, already braced for a bruising autumn...

After finishing his A-Levels, George Finch had planned to go to university and become a history teacher. But instead, at the age of 19, he has become the youngest council leader in the UK , running Warwickshire County Council with a budget of £2bn.  He has already set to work taking on the ‘blob’, but will he get the results Reform needs to show they’re ready to run a country?  Camilla a...

The full transcripts of Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with Donald Trump’s deputy attorney general have been published by the Justice Department. The move was reportedly designed to silence weeks of damaging headlines for the Trump administration - but instead it has reignited other questions surrounding the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein death and the conspiracy theories that still surro...

It’s not been quite the “annus horriblis” of 2024, but the Royal family have never been far from a headline so far this year. There have been fresh allegations about the Duke of York’s private life and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in a new book by Andrew Lownie; the King and the Princess of Wales are both continuing to recover from cancer; rumours of a reconciliation with the exiled Princ...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has unveiled a radical mass deportation plan, pledging to remove up to 600,000 migrants in his first term if he wins the next general election.  Speaking at an Oxfordshire aircraft hangar, Farage called illegal migration a “national emergency” and has promised to take Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights , repeal the Human Rights Act, and suspen...

On today’s Daily T, Grant Harrold recounts his extraordinary journey from a terraced house in North Lanarkshire to serving as butler to the then Prince of Wales at Highgrove. Harrold’s boyhood fascination with the Queen set him on a path that ended with a critical role in the inner sanctum of every day Royal life, and he tells The Daily T how a young Prince Harry dropped water bombs on him, how th...

Inflation has reached its highest level since January 2024, fuelled by soaring air fares and rising food prices .  Despite Keir Starmer’s repeated claims that Labour are bringing inflation down, the figures are saying otherwise, laying the ground for a tax grab from the Chancellor Rachel Reeves which will attack the middle-classes .  Tim Stanley and Jacob Rees-Mogg discuss how we got int...

The High Court has ruled against housing asylum seekers at The Bell Hotel in Epping, granting a temporary injunction that could reshape the UK’s asylum policy. Local councils, including Broxbourne, are now considering similar legal action, raising the question: where will migrants go if more hotels are closed? In this episode of The Daily T, Camilla and Tim discuss the political fallout of the Epp...

Yesterday’s much-anticipated summit in Washington, which saw a host of European leaders accompany Volodymyr Zelensky to The White House for talks with Donald Trump about achieving peace in Ukraine, has been talked up optimistically by all who were present. However, with Donald Trump today ruling out American boots on the ground as part of any security guarantees for Ukraine, and Zelensky ruling ou...

Following a remarkable summit between the US and Russia in Alaska at the weekend, talks on ending the war in Ukraine continue at pace with a phalanx of European leaders accompanying Volodymyr Zelensky for major discussions with Donald Trump in Washington later today. Keir Starmer is part of an extraordinary show of support for the Ukrainian president, with fears that Trump is pushing Zelensky to a...

Dr. David Bull, the new chairman of Reform UK, is an unlikely politician. He made his name as a TV doctor and presenter, even hosting a live ghost hunt. But he played a key role in the transition of the Brexit Party to Reform and even says the name of the party was cooked up in his kitchen.  He takes on the role from Zia Yusuf – who quit in dramatic fashion earlier this year – and after a per...

With Keir Starmer proving as unpopular and unpalatable to the left as he is to the right, Jeremy Corbyn’s new - and as yet untitled - political party joins Reform UK in presenting a very real threat to Labour’s chances of re-election in 2029. In this episode of The Daily T, Tim Stanley and Gordon Rayner talk to Ash Sarkar - journalist, Corbyn-supporter and co-founder of left-wing media organisatio...