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It's the day of Reform's big local election campaign launch in Birmingham. 10,000 people are expected to attend a Trump-style rally at the city's arena, with Reform themselves describing it as “the biggest ever launch rally in modern British political history”. And with new IPSOS polling showing that Nigel Farage tops the polling for British favoured next Prime Minister with 28pc -...

Within hours of the Spring Statement yesterday, the Government was left scrambling to negotiate with the US as President Trump introduced a whopping 25% tariff on all car imports - including from Britain. The news comes during a busy time for the White House, which is already dealing with the fall out from those leaked Signal messages. So, as the shock of his second election victory subsides and t...

Rachel Reeves has delivered her plans for the UK economy during her Spring Statement in the House of Commons today, pledging to “secure Britain’s future.” Indeed, in a stark warning, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) signalled that Labour's overhaul of workers' rights will have “material” and probably negative impacts on the economy, and it looks likely that the Chancellor risks being for...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer will deliver the 2025 Spring Statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday. Rachel Reeves' plan is to tell us all the things Labour has achieved so far, but British households and businesses are increasingly pessimistic about the state of the economy. Sluggish growth and ever higher borrowing costs mean cuts, cuts and more cuts are on the way. Kamal an...

Several days on from Heathrow's 18-hour shutdown caused by a fire at an electrical substation, the recriminations and the blame-shifting are well underway. Thomas Woldbye, Heathrow’s CEO, is taking the brunt of the criticism, after reports at the weekend that he went to bed at 12.30am on Friday morning instead of directly overseeing the airport's response. Meanwhile, the boss of the National Grid...

The far-right activist Tommy Robinson has lost a High Court challenge over the conditions of his imprisonment at HMP Woodhill, with a judge ruling he must stay in isolation for his own safety. One man who has argued for Robinson’s release – wrongly labelling him a political prisoner silenced for exposing the brutality of the Pakistani rape gangs – is billionaire X owner Elon Musk. So how has Robin...

It’s the show that’s got the whole nation talking. The Netflix drama Adolescence - about a young thirteen year old boy who becomes a murder suspect - has opened up a raft of conversations about what our children are up to online. Camilla and Kama speak to Michael Conroy, the founder of Men at Work which supports the development of boys and young men, about the problematic role models children see...

Well he may have written The Art of the Deal - but so far Donald Trump is finding that trying to do a deal with Vladimir Putin is a somewhat different kettle of fish. Just hours after Trump's "very productive" call with his Russian counterpart - Putin continued his attack on Ukraine, including on some energy infrastructure - something Putin had pledged to put an end to immediately in his call. Wit...

After weeks of pitch-rolling, Labour has finally unveiled what are probably the Government's most controversial reforms since entering office. Liz Kendall, the Work and Pensions Secretary, announced a huge swathe of cuts to the welfare system, including billions of pounds worth of disability benefits. Kamal and Camilla talk through the changes and why they've riled up Labour backbenchers, then ask...

As Nigel Farage announced 29 councillors had defected to Reform , the message was clear: his party wants to move on from its row with suspended MP Rupert Lowe. Farage welcomed his latest recruits in a central London press conference, and with fifteen of those councillors having crossed over from the Conservatives, Kemi Badenoch no doubt has an even bigger headache than before as Reform contin...

The Kremlin has said it is “cautiously optimistic” about a ceasefire in Ukraine after a late-night meeting with the US envoy Steve Witkoff. But Putin will need a phone call with President Trump to settle any outstanding issues. Kamal and Cleo speak to ally of President Trump, Secretary Robert Wilkie, and Ukraine: The Latest presenter Dom Nicholls who was with the UK Defence Secretary John Healey w...

The Prime Minister has pledged to tackle Britain’s “overcautious, flabby state”, admitting that record taxation and spending in recent years have not led to improvement in our front-line services.  The first to go in his shake-up is NHS England, which will be abolished to “cut bureaucracy” and bring management of the health service back under the Government. But do the plans really go far eno...

The ball is in Vladimir Putin’s court today after the US and Ukraine reached a ceasefire proposal at a meeting in Saudi Arabia, in what marked a dramatic change of tone in Washington-Kyiv relations. Kyiv said it is ready to accept a US proposal for an immediate 30-day ceasefire. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said it was now up to the US to convince Russia. So what is Putin’s next move? Ka...

Fears have set in over a potential American recession thanks to Donald Trump’s on-again off-again trade wars. Just today the president doubled tariffs on Canadian metals to a whopping 50pc. Shares are dropping like flies amid the uncertainty, with Elon Musk’s Tesla one of the worst hit. Meanwhile Trump is saying the economy is just in “a period of transition”. Kamal and Camilla ask if the presiden...

Despite their meteoric rise, all is not well inside Reform UK.  Nigel Farage’s party has been engulfed in civil war over a string of bullying allegations against Rupert Lowe. The Great Yarmouth MP vigorously denies all the accusations - including that he threatened physical violence against party chairman Zia Yusuf - and claims he is the victim of a witch hunt over his criticisms of Farage’s...

A “sophisticated” UK-based spy ring passed secrets to Russia for nearly three years before they were prosecuted. It was revealed that the ring leader, a man named Orlin Roussev, had exchanged messages with a mysterious man code named ‘Rupert Ticz’.  The prosecutors revealed that the man was in fact Jan Marsalek, the fugitive ex-Wirecard chief operating officer, who is wanted in connection wit...

Former tech boss turned fugitive Jan Marsalek was living a double life as a Russian spy, having met his handler during a meeting on a yacht in Nice back in 2014.  Throughout his time at the company, he is accused of running operations on behalf of the Kremlin, from assembling a Libyan militia and running surveillance on enemies of the state to an alleged audacious plot to hijack the Austrian...

A UK-based spy ring of Bulgarian nationals has been found guilty of espionage at the Old Bailey after a three-month trial. For almost three years, they’d been spying for Russia.  But the man believed to be behind it all is still on the run. Jan Marsalek was an Austrian tech boss, Chief Operating Officer of a successful payments processing company called Wirecard. Until it collapsed in 2020 am...

It's a toxic debate that has seen leading academics and feminists cancelled: how to treat children distressed about their gender. Retired psychiatrist Dr David Bell spent 25 years at the now-closed Tavistock and faced intense backlash for raising concerns about the trust’s GIDS clinic prescribing puberty blockers to children. The drugs have since been banned for under-18s and the Cass Review concl...

Like or loathe his policies, you can’t deny Donald Trump has star power. It was on full display in his address to Congress on Tuesday night, in which the US president told the audience “America is back” and declared his first month in office the most successful since George Washington. Daily T favourite Tim Stanley stayed up late watching so you don’t have to and joins Camilla and Kamal to explain...

He's been threatening to do it and now he has. Donald Trump has made the decision to pull all military aid from Ukraine. Whether or not it’s just a negotiating tactic to force Volodymyr Zelensky to sign a minerals deal, for the time being at least Ukraine will have to fight the Russian invasion without US support, presumably to the delight of Vladimir Putin. Talking Kamal and Camilla through just...

It’s been a seismic weekend in global politics with nothing less than the future of European security at stake. Kamal and Camilla reflect on Donald Trump and JD Vance’s shouting match with Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday, which has left US support for Ukraine in serious doubt. They also take in Sunday’s summit of international leaders in London chaired by Keir Starmer, which saw th...

Keir Starmer has returned from his whirlwind meeting with Donald Trump in Washington DC, and it seems as though the trip was at least a partial success for the PM. Some papers have even gone so far as to describe a new political bromance... Trump cautiously backed the Chagos plan and suggested the UK could avoid tariffs, although there was less clarity on security guarantees for Ukraine. In the ro...

It’s been billed as one of the most important meetings between a British prime minister and a US president in decades. But Keir Starmer and Donald Trump - the strait-laced Leftie lawyer and the maverick, mouthy businessman - almost couldn’t be more different. As he arrives in Washington, Kamal and Camilla set out which cards the PM has in his deck - not least finally setting out a plan to reach 2....

It is the documentary threatening a full blown crisis at the BBC. Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone featured three supposedly ordinary children who it was later revealed had connections to the Hamas terror group. Kamal speaks to Sharren Haskel, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, who calls the documentary “pure propaganda of a terrorist organisation”. She also calls for the regulator Ofcom to look int...