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It’s the morning after the economic night before and the response to Rachel Reeves’s Autumn Budget has been emphatically negative. On this edition of The Daily T, Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley reflect on the Chancellor refusing to apologise for breaking Labour’s pledge not to raise tax, the chairman of the OBR offering to resign after the Budget was leaked and some of the commentary criticising...

The Budget has finally been delivered and it was every bit as horrible as feared. Rachel Reeves has gone on a £30bn tax raid, punishing savers and landlords, all so that she can afford to cut the two-child benefit cap in a desperate bid to shore up the support from her back benches. Camilla and Tim react to the day’s events outside Parliament with Conservative shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride, Ref...

With just 24 hours until the Autumn Budget, desperation appears to have set in, with the Chancellor meeting Labour MPs in a last-ditch attempt to get the party behind her tax-raising plans. Camilla and Tim look at why it’s too little, too late for Rachel Reeves; how fiscal drag means her tax raids will hit middle earners; and which Cabinet members will be caught up in Labour’s mansion tax. Plus, T...

The Chancellor is set to raise taxes in her autumn Budget – again – despite Labour promising not to, and it’s all to fund £15bn in extra benefits. Rachel Reeves is expected to end the two-child benefit cap, just the latest reversal on a policy unpopular with Labour backbenchers. Camilla and Tim are joined by Telegraph political editor Ben Riley-Smith to explain the thinking inside the Treasury dur...

In a Daily T exclusive, Camilla and Tim speak to Princess Diana’s long-time former private secretary, Patrick Jephson. In 1995 the BBC journalist Martin Bashir convinced Diana that the trusted adviser was spying on her, in order to secure the now infamous Panorama interview. Jepshon left his role soon after and the Princess went to her grave believing he had betrayed her. Thirty years on, Jephson...

Straitjacketed by a manifesto that promised not to raise income tax, National Insurance or VAT on “working people” – and stymied by an exodus of people wealthy enough to seek financial safety elsewhere – the Labour party is scrambling to raise enough revenue to fill a £20bn fiscal black hole. As the 2025 autumn Budget draws ever closer, there is increasing apprehension as to whether Chancellor Rac...

A stark new review has found that Britain is not ready for war , warning landing on the same morning the Government unveiled fresh plans to boost the nation’s defences. This morning, Defence Secretary John Healey unveiled a major £1.5bn investment in 13 new UK munitions factories, a bid to ramp up Britain’s defence industry as global threats escalate.  The announcement came as Healey revealed...

Reform UK has set out its plans to plug a £25bn hole in the economy, and the policies essentially amount to one thing: making it more expensive to be a foreigner in Britain. But the press conference got a bit frosty when Camilla asked Nigel Farage who his pick for chancellor would be. Meanwhile, in another central London conference centre, the Conservatives were announcing...not very much at all....

Shabana Mahmood has announced a major asylum crackdown, in a clear attempt to pacify the Right of Labour and the country at large. The Home Secretary’s plans, based on a model successfully implemented in Denmark, include a 20-year wait for refugees to apply for indefinite leave to remain, reviews of refugees status every 30 months, and legislation that will promote British law over the ECHR. Camil...

It’s the morning after the scoop before, and the end of a bad week for the BBC. After The Daily T revealed how Newsnight also doctored Donald Trump’s January 6th speech, and were called out live on air, Tim and Camilla go inside the BBC’s own response to the saga. Hint: it suggests the corporation is as deluded as ever. Then, it’s a scandal which is arguably more damning than phone hacking. We hea...

A Daily T investigation has uncovered another, earlier example of the BBC doctoring footage of Trump’s January 6th speech. Not only that, but it was called out live on air by a Newsnight contributor – and nothing was done. This comes after the resignation of top BBC officials in the wake of a Telegraph story detailing how a 2024 Panorama documentary spliced footage of the president in a way t...

Westminster was thrown into chaos last night after Downing Street rushed to defend Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership amidst whispers of 'coup' to oust the leader.  Starmer’s allies are pointing the finger at two of his top ministers, Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, accusing them of “leadership manoeuvres”. But Streeting flat out denied he had any such plans duri...

President Donald Trump has gone to war with the BBC - demanding one billion dollars unless the broadcaster apologises for their Panorama investigation by Friday.  The US president is accusing the public broadcaster of a “reckless disregard for the truth” over the selective editing of Mr Trump’s speech on the day of the Capitol Hill riot.  Despite the BBC’s current turmoil, outgoing direc...

The BBC has been forced to apologise for the “error of judgement” that saw Donald Trump’s speech on Jan 6 2021 edited misleadingly – as revealed by The Telegraph – in an episode of Panorama in October 2024. Trump has also threatened legal action against the broadcaster following Sunday night’s resignations of director-general Tim Davie and chief executive of BBC News Deborah Turness. Camilla and T...

Every day, millions of us step onto trains, walk through busy town centres and trust that we’re safe. But that trust was shattered this past weekend when a man armed with a knife went on a violent rampage aboard a high-speed train bound for London. And not long after that horror unfolded, confidence in the justice system was shaken again after two prisoners were mistakenly released from HMP Wandsw...

On today's edition of The Daily T, an extended conversation with Tim Stanley and Eric Trump; son of President Donald Trump and author of a new book 'Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation'. Tim talks to Eric about his upbringing, the second Trump presidency that's trying to "save America", and his belief that the Left have tried to destroy his dad at every turn. Eric also speaks about h...

David Lammy was left humilitated at Prime Minister's Questions this lunchtime when he refused to answer multiple questions about whether another migrant prisoner had been mistakenly released. It was confirmed as the session was ending that police were indeed searching for a prisoner who was accidentally let out of Wandsworth Prison. Camilla and Tim react to a calamitous performance from the Deputy...

The Chancellor’s speech today was the clearest sign yet that she is planning tax rises on working people. Rachel Reeves is said to be considering raising income tax by 1p or 2p in her upcoming Budget, breaking a key Labour manifesto promise. Camilla and Tim are joined by Telegraph political editor Ben Riley-Smith to ask how the Government might try to justify this latest U-turn. Later, Sunday Tele...

Another day, another BBC scandal. Gordon Rayner joins Camilla and Tim in the studio to reveal how the corporation doctored Donald Trump’s speech on January 6th, completely changing its meaning so as to make it seem the President had actively encouraged the now infamous Capitol Hill riots. Is this latest case of BBC bias a scandal too far for director-general Tim Davie? Elsewhere, Camilla and Tim w...

In a truly unprecedented move, King Charles has stripped his brother of all titles and forced him to leave his Royal Lodge residence. The announcement comes after months of revelations about Prince Andrew’s relationship with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and sex abuse allegations by Virginia Guiffre. Tim speaks to the Telegraph’s deputy Royal editor Victoria Ward for an inside look at t...

Tim is joined by Jacob Rees-Mogg to discuss wheter Rachel Reeves be forced to resign after admitting to not having a licence to rent out her home. Jacob also takes aim at the Chancellor’s plans for a 2p rise in income tax, calling it “desperately unfair on what Labour likes to call working people”. They're also joined in the studio by Camilla Turner, Sunday Telegraph political editor, whose months...

Yet another immigration fiasco this week: it has emerged that the migrant sex offender who was accidentally released from prison was paid £500 to be deported. Tim is joined by Telegraph writer and broadcaster Isabel Oakeshott to discuss why successive governments have failed to stop the boats and how British people are paying the price. Later, Tim sits down with Nadine Dorries, the former Tory MP...

On today’s episode of The Daily T podcast, new photos have emerged showing Prince Andrew hosting Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Royal Lodge - just as King Charles faces heckling during a royal visit over his brother’s links to the disgraced financier. Hosts Tim Stanley and Rachel Johnson ask: is this the end of the road for Prince Andrew? The Daily Telegraph’s royal edi...

A weekend fiasco has thrown Britain’s immigration and prison system into chaos after Hadush Kebatu, an asylum seeker jailed for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Epping, was mistakenly released from Chelmsford prison. He was meant to be deported to Ethiopia but was freed in error, sparking a two-day manhunt before his recapture in North London.  Justice Secretary David Lammy faced MPs...

When 19-year-old Jay Slater went missing and was later found dead in Tenerife, his family never expected the online frenzy that would compound their nightmare. Social media ‘sleuths’ spread conspiracy theories that Jay was murdered over a drug debt, or that his disappearance was a scam to raise money. Trolls even set up accounts pretending to be Jay and accused his mum, Debbie Duncan, of faking he...