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 by Lord Frost, Boris Johnson’s Brexit negotiator, who says successive governments have failed to be ...
Apr 28, 2025•41 min
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 governing party in the next big election . Cleo Watson and Kamal Ahmed are joined by Luke Tryl, executive di...
Apr 25, 2025•55 min
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 Kamal reflect on Farage’s comments and speak to Swedish journalist Diamant Salihu about how the multicu...
Apr 24, 2025•38 min
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 messaging saga. Kamal and Camilla are joined by former Trump national security advisor (turned vocal...
Apr 23, 2025•34 min
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, Navratilova has always been clear, calling it ‘cheating’ to allow transgender women to compete in women’s sports du...
Apr 22, 2025•50 min
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 & Celebrate a year earlier, designed to train staff how to be more inclusive. An internal panel ...
Apr 18, 2025•50 min
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 and call for clarity on how the Government will ensure rights based on biological sex are protected....
Apr 17, 2025•44 min
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 Julie Bindel and Helen Joyce – feminist writers and activists who say despite today’s win, the fight ...
Apr 16, 2025•43 min
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 Daily T to pick through the best and worst of this year's Easter food offerings. From tiramisu hot cross...
Apr 15, 2025•34 min
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 directly to the government - with the race now on to secure the raw materials to stop the furnaces at...
Apr 14, 2025•40 min
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 to the top and the discrimination he says he encountered on every level of the force, offering a first person ac...
Apr 11, 2025•52 min
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
