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 master plan to upend the global order, assert US dominance and bring everyone to the table under his ter...
Apr 10, 2025•39 min
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 residents in the city about their feelings on Unite Unions' strike action and what it means for their stre...
Apr 09, 2025•35 min
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 studio by former Tory leader and eminent China-hawk Iain Duncan Smith, who says the President is righ...
Apr 08, 2025•42 min
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 about his plan to respond to the tariffs and how he’ll protect British jobs and businesses . Kamal and Ca...
Apr 07, 2025•39 min
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 labelled Nazis and bigots for championing female spaces and sex-based rights. Kamal and Camilla sat down ...
Apr 04, 2025•30 min
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 Business Secretary and ardent Leaver Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg whether we can thank Brexit for sparing the...
Apr 03, 2025•40 min
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 ask if he has the political skill to reach a trade deal. Later, Kamal speaks to Brian Glenn, the Whi...
Apr 02, 2025•42 min
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 continues to tell us that he plans to put more money in our pockets, promising millions of Britons a pay rise. Kamal an...
Apr 01, 2025•28 min
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 judges to consider an offender's background before deciding to impose a custodial sentence. Kamal and...
Mar 31, 2025•39 min
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 - can he capitalise on his own popularity ratings and the less than impressive numbers for Kemi Badenoch (18pc) and l...
Mar 28, 2025•36 min
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 the world settles in for another tumultuous four years, how do we live with President Trump? Cleo Wat...
Mar 27, 2025•41 min
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 forced into more tax rises with her plans. Camilla is live from Westminster, reacting to today's announ...
Mar 26, 2025•36 min
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 and Camilla speak to the owner of a hairdressing business who’s already been affected by Rachel Reeves’ autumn budget...
Mar 25, 2025•36 min
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 told the Financial Times that Heathrow could have stayed open with energy from two other substations...
Mar 24, 2025•38 min
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 Robinson found this new following amongst Trump’s “new right” fan base? How has he repositioned himself a...
Mar 21, 2025•49 min
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 online and what more parents can do. Later, they ask John Player, the headteacher of a school in Ess...
Mar 20, 2025•47 min
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. With Ukraine responding in kind with drone attacks and the two countries seemingly no nearer to peace, ...
Mar 19, 2025•39 min
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 Helen Whately, the shadow work and pensions secretary, what she thinks. Plus, Kemi Badenoch gave a ...
Mar 18, 2025•40 min
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 continue to lead her party in the polls ahead of May's local elections. But the elephant in the room was last w...
Mar 17, 2025•29 min
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 when he travelled to Paris for the emergency security summit this week. And as an exclusive Telegraph...
Mar 14, 2025•58 min
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 enough? Kamal and Camilla are joined by The Telegraph’s resident waste watcher Dia Chakravarty to find out ex...
Mar 13, 2025•36 min
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? Kamal and Camilla ask Kremlinologist Emily Ferris about the Russian president’s thinking and whether t...
Mar 12, 2025•35 min
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 president’s strategy of short term pain for long term gain will pay off, and what impact it could have on th...
Mar 11, 2025•38 min
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 leadership. Kamal and Camilla ask what airing the party’s dirty laundry in public will do for its hopes of...
Mar 10, 2025•42 min
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 with a €1.9bn (£1.57bn) banking fraud. For almost three years, he had gathered information on targets across ...
Mar 09, 2025•45 min
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 spy service. In the second instalment of The Daily T Investigates: The Tech Boss who was Russia's Secret S...
Mar 08, 2025•35 min
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 amid a massive fraud scandal Marsalek is alleged to have been the mastermind behind. Just days later, he fle...
Mar 07, 2025•42 min
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 concluded that the Tavistock was implementing "changes in care without a well considered evidence base". ...
Mar 06, 2025•35 min
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 how Trump made a mockery of Democrats like Al Green and Elizabeth Warren in his 100-minute speech. ...
Mar 05, 2025•35 min
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 how critical that support is, and how long Ukraine can last with just European backing, is The Teleg...
Mar 04, 2025•34 min
