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Cricket legend Sir Geoffrey Boycott is one of the world's most famous sportsmen. The England test batsman was the man who could defend against the very best fast bowlers, score plenty of runs and give England a chance. Theresa May once described him as her political hero; gritty, digging in and getting the runs in the end. But last year he discovered his throat cancer, which he first battled in 20...

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has had a breakthrough night at the local elections — making big gains in local councils, winning their first mayoralty in Greater Lincolnshire with Andrea Jenkyns, and snatching a knife-edge by-election victory in Runcorn and Helsby. The results have Reform celebrating, Labour licking its wounds, and the Conservatives turning on themselves, with one MP blasting leader Kem...

Next week marks 80 years since VE Day — the end of the Second World War and the defeat of Nazi Germany. But in the shadow of that anniversary, and in the wake of the October 7th attacks, Holocaust denial is on the rise once again — fuelled by misinformation and conspiracy theories spreading online. Today on The Daily T, we look back at a landmark legal battle that confronted those lies head-on. It...

Naturally, he has called it “the most successful first 100 days of any administration in the history of our country”. But how is Donald Trump really fairing on his campaign promises, 100 days into his second administration? Kamal and Camilla review the president’s achievements – and misses – so far, including immigration, the economy and slashing bureaucracy. Later, they ask Greg Swenson, chair of...

Canada’s Liberal Party have secured a remarkable comeback at the election, with former Bank of England governor Mark Carney declaring victory to become the country's Prime Minister.  The party had faced electoral wipeout under predecessor Justin Trudeau, but a new wave of Canadian patriotism brought on by threats by Trump to make Canada the 51st state has powered the party to success. But has...

As Channel crossings hit 10,000 this year and with Labour set for a drubbing in the local elections, the Government is scrambling to appear tough on immigration. New measures will make it harder for firms to hire from overseas and penalise bosses who break employment law. But will the plans really bring down immigration, let alone ‘smash the gangs’ as Labour promised? Kamal and Camilla are joined...

The local elections are just around the corner, with voters heading to the polls on May 1st . It’s the first big test for the political parties since the general election, particularly the Reform Party, who are expected to make big gains in the North .  The party hopes to claim a win in Runcorn and Helsby as their first ever by-election victory, making them a very serious contender for the go...

Nigel Farage has spoken in Dover as Reform ramp up their campaigning with the local elections just over a week away. He went big on immigration, saying that “we must discriminate when it comes to who can come into our country". Speaking to The Daily T afterwards, Farage said that multiculturalism had been a “huge error” and that “successive governments haven’t thought it mattered”. Camilla and Kam...

The Chancellor flew to the US for a meeting of the International Monetary Fund this week, just as the agency downgraded Britain’s growth prospects for the coming year. Rachel Reeves is there partly to move along trade talks with Washington, but the White House is embroiled in chaos of its own. Markets are in turmoil over tariffs, while defence secretary Pete Hegseth is embroiled in another Signal...

Martina Navratilova is one of the world’s greatest ever tennis players. She won a record-breaking 59 Grand Slam titles, including 18 singles titles, 31 doubles titles, and 10 mixed doubles titles. She was also one of the first openly lesbian professional athletes to come out publicly in the U.S. and has been an advocate for lesbian and gay rights.  When it comes to the trans debate, Navr...

Reverend Bernard Randall had been happily teaching at a private Church of England boarding school in Derbyshire when he was abruptly sacked for gross misconduct in September 2019, after delivering a sermon in which he told students they didn’t need to accept LGBT values unquestioningly. It followed on from him pushing back against a workshop for teachers delivered by a LGBT charity called Educate...

It’s well over 24 hours since the UK Supreme Court determined that transgender women are not legally women. Since then the Prime Minister has posted about Easter traffic and GP waiting times – but nothing on that landmark ruling. There hasn’t even been a formal Government statement or a Cabinet minister on the airwaves. Kamal and Camilla ask why Keir Starmer and his Labour colleagues are so quiet...

Transgender women are not legally women, the Supreme Court declared in a landmark ruling on Wednesday. The judges’ unanimous decision follows a years-long legal battle between gender-critical campaigners and the Scottish Government over the definition of a woman. Now pressure is growing on Keir Starmer to clarify the Government's position. Kamal and Camilla were at the court to get reaction from J...

The Easter weekend is fast-approaching, and if you're about to head to the shops to stock up on those essential sweet treats, then be warned - there's a bewildering array of increasingly outlandish flavours and styles to choose from out there. But fear not, because Camilla and Kamal are joined by The Daily Telegraph's resident food columnist and taste tester Xanthe Clay on this edition of The...

After an emergency Saturday sitting of parliament, British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant is now - to all intents and purposes - under government control. The Chinese owners Jingye were intending to shut down the site, with the potential loss of almost 3,000 jobs and an end to 160 years of steelmaking in the town, but under emergency legislation a new CEO has been appointed and the company will report d...

During his 30 years in the Met police force, Neil Basu worked his way up the ranks to become the most senior Asian officer in British policing. Once described as being “too woke” for the role of Commissioner, Basu believes his outspoken political views cost him further promotion in the force before his exit in 2022.  In a book about his career called ‘Turmoil’, Basu chronicles his rise t...

Well he set out to Make America Wealthy Again. Instead, Donald Trump Made America Climb Down Again. The president has now paused all global tariffs above ten percent for ninety days - with the exception of China, where the latest episode of their tit for tat trade war has seen the US placing a 125pc levy on all imported goods from there. The big question is, was this all part of a great Trump mast...

It's all a bit rubbish, isn't it? There’s still no solution for the residents of Birmingham as negotiations to end the bin strike have once again failed to reach an agreement. As the backlog of waste grows by 1,000 tonnes a week, an infestation of 'cat-sized rats' has taken over the city, with Health Secretary Wes Streeting saying he is “concerned” about the public health risk. We hear from reside...

The trade war is escalating. The world’s two biggest economies - the USA and China - are now going head to head on tariffs, with Donald Trump threatening Xi Jinping with an extra 50% tariff if China doesn’t withdraw its own 34% counter-tariff, which itself was a reciprocal response to Trump’s original tariff set out last week. Amid fears of a global recession, Camilla and Kamal are joined in the s...

As Donald Trump’s tariff plans sent markets around the world into absolute chaos , Wall Street and the US braced themselves for a plunge in stocks. But as expected, Trump doubled down, urging them to stop panic selling and defending his tariffs which he said are “bringing in billions of dollars a week” for the country.  We hear that Keir Starmer has to stay after he spoke in the West Midlands...

With the health secretary Wes Streeting banning puberty blocker drugs for children and President Trump barring trans women from women’s sports , is the tide turning on the transgender debate? Perhaps, but it hasn’t come without a fight, often from women who have been de-platformed, sacked and abused for challenging the orthodoxy. Julie Bindel and Helen Joyce are two such women, who have been label...

So it’s finally happened. Donald Trump took to the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday night to announce his grand tariff plan on what he’d dubbed “Liberation Day”. The end result was the UK being slapped with a 10pc tax on all exports to the US. It’s not good news for the economy, but we have avoided the much heavier tariffs imposed on the likes of the EU and China. Kamal and Camilla ask former...

It’s Liberation Day! But what does Donald Trump's plan for sweeping tariffs mean for the rest of the world? The UK hopes to carve out an exemption, with Keir Starmer’s negotiators even offering last-minute concessions. And the stakes are high – the OBR has warned that tariffs could wipe out the Government’s fiscal wiggle room. Kamal and Camilla assess the prime minister’s response to the saga and...

It’s the eve of Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’, when the president’s new global tariffs regime risks wiping out Labour’s capacity to balance the books.  Starmer is saying the US-UK trade talks are “well advanced” and has rejected any “knee-jerk” response from the Government, but has admitted that British exports will be hit by the new taxes.  Despite all this, the Prime Minister co...

The “two-tier” justice row has reared its ugly head again, as it emerges judges and magistrates are being told to prioritise bail for ethnic minorities as they are at higher risk of being remanded into custody. It comes after the Sentencing Council refused a request from Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood for it to rethink other new instructions, which come into effect from tomorrow, that require j...