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 the PM leading the European response and seeming to pull off a delicate balancing act as a conduit bet...
Mar 03, 2025•44 min
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 room as it all unfolded was Telegraph political editor Ben Riley-Smith, who got off the Prime Minister...
Feb 28, 2025•54 min
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 2.5% of GDP on defence - and ask if he has the political skill to play them. They also consider whethe...
Feb 27, 2025•35 min
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 into all of the BBC’s “biased” coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. Later, shoplifting is at a record leve...
Feb 26, 2025•46 min
As the US sides with Russia and North Korea in a key vote at the UN, it’s clear the world order is shifting. Under pressure from Donald Trump, Keir Starmer committed today to upping Britain's defence spending to 2.5pc of GDP by 2027 - an extra £13.4bn a year. The announcement comes at the PM prepares to head to Washington, hot on the tails of Emmanuel Macron who shared a few eye-popping moments with the President. Camilla and Gordon ask whether Starmer can forge a role for Britain in Trump’s glo...
Feb 25, 2025•35 min
The German elections have taken place and the Bundestag is looking a lot more right-wing than it was this time yesterday. The centre-right CDU (Christian Democratic Union) led by Friedrich Merz will take power having won just over 28pc of the vote. But in second place and surging to just over 20pc of the vote was the AfD (Alternative for Deutschland). Having drawn controversy and even comparisons to the Nazi party for promoting the closure of Germany’s borders as well as the mass deportations of...
Feb 24, 2025•42 min
It was an appalling image: the coffins of four Israeli hostages, two of them young children, presented on stage in front of a crowd before being returned to their families. Then in a cruel twist, it emerged that one of the bodies was not that of Shiri Bibas as Hamas had claimed, nor of any of the hostages taken on October 7th. Could these latest appalling developments derail an already shaky ceasefire in Gaza? Kamal and Gordon put that question to the Telegraph’s Jerusalem correspondent Henry Bo...
Feb 21, 2025•31 min
After President Trump attacked Volodymyr Zelensky as a “dictator” and suggested Ukraine started the war with Russia, Righties in the UK have rushed to back the Ukrainian President. But notably quiet is Nigel Farage, a close Trump ally who previously drew criticism for saying NATO provoked the Ukraine war and he "admired" Vladimir Putin. Kamal and Camilla speak to Ukrainian MP and political opponent of Zelensky, Oleksiy Goncharenko, about the reaction in his country to Trump and Zelensky’s war of...
Feb 20, 2025•38 min
In bad news for the Chancellor Rachel Reeves, inflation shot back up in January, with prices rising by 3%. Who could have possibly seen this coming, after Labour doubled down on net zero, raised national insurance by £25 billion and hiked the minimum wage? But where Labour is seemingly more economical is with the truth. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds appears to have been caught in a lie, embellishing his CV by claiming he was a solicitor when he never finished his training. Kamal and Camil...
Feb 19, 2025•35 min
Two figures loomed large at the Alliance for Responsible Citizens (ARC) conference in East London today. Donald Trump - whose playbook many of the delegates want to see copied in the UK - and a certain Nigel Farage. Hot off the back of fresh YouGov polling that puts Reform in the lead on 27pc to Labour’s 25pc and the Conservatives’ 21pc, Farage took the opportunity to repeat to a cheering crowd that there would be no deal with Kemi Badenoch to unite the right. Kamal and Camilla were watching sid...
Feb 18, 2025•51 min
The war in Ukraine is firmly back on the agenda of Western leaders. Keir Starmer was at a hastily organised European summit in Paris on Monday, as Russian and American negotiators prepare to hold talks in Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile the PM has announced he would be willing to put British troops on the ground in Ukraine as peacekeepers. But with military recruitment at historically low levels and defence spending languishing, is our diminished Army up to the job? Kamal and Gordon ask Lord Richard Dan...
Feb 17, 2025•40 min
Angela Rayner is planning to set up a council on Islamophobia, tasked with drawing up an official definition for anti-Muslim discrimination. But some senior political figures are worried that the Government could adopt the same definition as the Labour Party, which has been described as so widely drawn is curbs free speech. One of the people sounding the alarm is Dr Taj Hargey, a moderate Imam and scholar who is “deeply concerned” about the definition. He tells Kamal and Camilla it will close do...
Feb 14, 2025•34 min
Well, he promised it and now he seems to be well on the way to delivering. Donald Trump held a phone call with Russia's Vladimir Putin and agreed to begin negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due to meet with the US Defence Secretary and Vice President this week. But is Moscow the real winner here? Trump has said it wouldn't be 'practical' for Ukraine to join NATO, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested Ukraine won't return to its pre-2014 borders. Kamal and Camil...
Feb 13, 2025•37 min
The Telegraph has revealed that a family of six Palestinians seeking to flee Gaza has been granted the right to live in the UK using a scheme meant for Ukrainian refugees. The Home Office initially rejected their application, but a judge overruled the decision as it breached their rights under the ECHR. It is an immigration tribunal decision which comes hot on the heels of the Albanian criminal whose deportation was halted in part because of his son’s distaste for foreign chicken nuggets. Kamal ...
Feb 12, 2025•35 min
Keir Starmer and his mates were only too happy to play the role of the moral arbiters in opposition. But after constant accusations of cronyism last year, and now health minister Andrew Gwynne’s sacking for a string of racist, sexist and ageist messages posted in an MPs' WhatsApp group, are Labour at risk of drowning in a sea of hypocrisy? Are they now The Nasty Party, a label historically reserved for the Tories? Kamal and Camilla also reflect on yesterday’s interview with Kemi Badenoch after T...
Feb 11, 2025•31 min
Kemi Badenoch has ruled out signing a pact with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, saying the party’s manifesto promises “didn’t add up”. Speaking exclusively to the Daily T to mark 100 days as Leader of the Opposition, Badenoch said, “I am the custodian of an institution that has existed for nigh on 200 years...I can’t just treat it like it’s a toy and have pacts and mergers.” Badenoch also called for a UK version of DOGE, Elon Musk’s government efficiency drive in the United States, and said the Conser...
Feb 10, 2025•52 min
They've overtaken Labour in the polls for the first time, and now they have their sights set firmly on Number 10. Despite Labour cancelling local elections for millions of voters, Reform aren't going anywhere, and in this episode we hear from one of the lynchpins of their success - Rupert Lowe MP. He's sat down with our own Gordon Rayner to reveal how the party plans to win at the next election, why Labour are ruining the country, and what he thinks of Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson. Read: Rupert ...
Feb 07, 2025•47 min
Katharine Birbalsingh, who has become known as Britain’s strictest headteacher, has accused Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson of being a “Marxist” who “hates academies”. The head of Michaela Community School in Wembley, she wrote an open letter to Phillipson after they met this week to discuss Labour’s plans to reform the academy system. And it clearly didn’t go well. Kamal and Camilla speak to a clearly angry Ms Birbalsingh about what happened at the meeting, why the government wants to ce...
Feb 06, 2025•34 min
Even by Donald Trump’s standards, it’s pretty out there. During a visit by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, the President declared that he wanted the US to “take over” the Gaza Strip , resettling the almost two million Palestinians who live there to build what he called the “Riviera of the Middle East”. Kamal and Camilla ask Middle East analyst Sanam Vakil whether Trump’s desire to add Gaza to his property development portfolio is even possible, and what it could mean for...
Feb 05, 2025•42 min
‘We did not find any murders’. Those are the damning words of world-renowned neonatologist Dr Shoo Lee, one of a panel of experts questioning the evidence used against convicted child-killer Lucy Letby. The seven babies were not murdered, they concluded from extensive new evidence, but died either from natural causes or poor medical care. Camilla and Kamal were at the press conference with David Davis, the MP leading the charge for Letby’s case to be reviewed, and the Telegraph’s science editor ...
Feb 04, 2025•36 min
President Trump looks to have started an all-out trade war with his closest neighbours, after sticking a 25pc tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico. He’s also put a 10pc levy on Chinese goods, and said he “absolutely” intends to impose tariffs on the European Union as well. The intentions of these protectionist policies? To crack down on illegal immigration and the cross-border supply of opioids like fentanyl, as well as the prioritising of American industry. But will tariffs actually have th...
Feb 03, 2025•41 min
In this final episode of our mini-series on the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, Investigations Editor Claire Newell explores whether the MHRA, the regulatory agency for drugs, has protected patients. She hears from families about the long-term consequences of a rare adverse reaction to the jab, and whether they have received enough support from the Government. Listen to the first two episodes of The Daily T Investigates: The AstraZeneca vaccine here Listen to 'The Lockdown Files: The Forgotten Victim...
Jan 31, 2025•29 min
This week marks five years since Britain formally left the European Union, after four years and three Prime Ministers worth of post-referendum negotiations. But as the anniversary comes around, so too does new polling from YouGov, revealing that only 11% of Brits see Brexit as more of a success than a failure, and that 55% say the UK was wrong to vote to leave the EU in the first place. Faced with a Brexit that doesn't seem to be delivering for those who voted either for or against it, Camilla a...
Jan 30, 2025•38 min
The Chancellor has given the government’s backing to a third runway at Heathrow Airport, in yet another relaunch speech this morning. Speaking at a factory in Oxfordshire, Rachel Reeves reaffirmed Labour’s commitment to their growth strategy, announcing a raft of major new infrastructure projects alongside Heathrow including the redevelopment of Old Trafford, turning Oxford and Cambridge into “Europe’s Silicon Valley” and the much-delayed Lower Thames Crossing. But do projects that we might not ...
Jan 29, 2025•40 min
A leaked Home Office review has recommended that the Government change its approach to extremism, focusing less on "ideologies of concern" and more on "behaviours", including extreme misogyny and environmental extremism. The review also pushes for the police to record more non-crime hate incidents in the vein of the thought policing that happened to our Telegraph colleague Allison Pearson. Kamal and Camilla ask what on earth is going on at the basket case that is the Home Office, and explain why...
Jan 28, 2025•35 min
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp. More than a million people - mostly Jews - were murdered at the camp, with some six million Jews in total systematically killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust between 1941 and 1945. The King today became the first British monarch to set foot on the site as he joined the commemorations on Holocaust Memorial Day, and Kamal and Camilla spoke to Royal Editor Hannah Furness for the latest from his trip. They also s...
Jan 27, 2025•48 min
When patients were admitted to hospital with unusual symptoms in 2021, their families started to ask questions. Dr Stephen Wright’s family were initially told he had died after having a stroke. But when his parents saw an article linking rare blood clots to the AstraZeneca Covid jab, they knew they had found the answer. In this second instalment of The Daily T Investigates: The AstraZeneca vaccine, we hear from one of the doctors who discovered the new condition, and Stephen’s family, who uneart...
Jan 24, 2025•25 min
It is likely that Axel Rudakubana “will be in custody for all his life”, the judge who sentenced the Southport child killer said today. Mr Justice Goose handed down a minimum 52-year term for the brutal murder of three young girls in Southport last year and the attempted murder of several more. Kamal and Camilla reflect on a shocking crime that rocked the nation and its impact on the devastated families - and a community. Plus, hear from the Telegraph journalist who checked into rehab…for a soci...
Jan 23, 2025•37 min
The Duke of Sussex has reached a shock legal settlement of at least £10 million with the publisher of The Sun, despite having previously vowed to go to court. News Group Newspapers issued an apology, admitting to “serious intrusion" into the Prince's private life and "incidents of unlawful activities" by private investigators working for The Sun. But is this the end of Harry's fight with the press? As a royal editor for 13 years and still closely connected to royal circles, Camilla gives her tak...
Jan 22, 2025•38 min
Donald Trump is officially back in power, and the 47th president wasted no time on his first day in office, announcing a string of executive orders that rolled back much of Joe Biden’s agenda. Camilla and Kamal reflect on the highlights of an extraordinary inauguration with The Telegraph's US editor Tony Diver, as well as the backlash against Elon Musk after he was accused of twice performing a Nazi salute at a post-inauguration rally. They also speak to Charley Cooper, a senior defence advisor ...
Jan 21, 2025•42 min
