It’s a Rightie-off! Two heavyweights are in The Daily T studio to battle it out for the soul of British Right – and help you decide who to vote for. Conservative chairman Kevin Hollinrake goes head to head with Tim Montgomerie, journalist and head of Reform’s Christian Fellowship, over their parties’ leaders, records in office, and solutions to Britain’s biggest problems. The two heavyweights also weigh in on whether they would support a Tory-Reform coalition, and the answer might surprise you… ...
Dec 17, 2025•41 min
The US president is suing the BBC for a whopping $10bn, and Camilla and Tim are referred to in the lawsuit. Donald Trump alleges he was defamed by Panorama and Newsnight’s misleading editing of his speech ahead of the Jan 6 2021 Capitol riot. Former BBC legal eagle Joshua Rozenberg explains the merits of settling or fighting Trump’s suit to the bitter end. Plus, resident doctors are going on strike just as the NHS faces a tidal wave of severe flu cases. We hear how the union has been captured by...
Dec 16, 2025•33 min
The Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney, where two gunmen killed at least 15 people, has been called the worst atrocity against Jews outside of Israel since Oct 7. The harrowing event has sparked immediate political debate, with Tony Abbott, the former Australian prime minister, calling it a “day of shame” for the country. Chris Minns, the New South Wales premier, has announced a “comprehensive investigation” into the rise of antisemitism. Camilla and Tim are joined by Lord Wolfson to share his perso...
Dec 15, 2025•43 min
Michael Gove, Nicky Campbell and Andrew Pierce have all forged highly successful careers in journalism and broadcasting, with Gove serving many years in Government too. But the men also share a very particular childhood experience: being adopted. In this special episode, Camilla sits down with the the three journalists to understand how that fact has forged their lives and careers. They explain feeling different from their peers growing up; finding their birth mothers (or choosing not to); and h...
Dec 12, 2025•42 min
Public anger over crime linked to asylum hotels is boiling over, with protests this summer from Essex to Scotland. In light of the rape of a schoolgirl by two Afghan asylum seekers in Leamington Spa, Camilla and Tim ask what’s really driving this surge in migrant crime, and whether Britain’s broken asylum system is now fuelling a security crisis. Plus, senior reporter Steve Bird has the inside story from the lawless migrant camps in Calais and Dunkirk: how ruthless people-smuggling gangs are coe...
Dec 11, 2025•35 min
Kemi Badenoch has accused the Prime Minister of repeatedly bending the truth and called him a “caretaker Prime Minister”. Camilla and Tim debunk some of the Government’s biggest porkies, explaining what the data really shows on the Chancellor's Budget, energy bills, teacher numbers, police recruitment and Brexit. And we’re joined by George Abaraonye, the former Oxford Union president-elect who was removed from his post after he appeared to celebrate the shooting of US conservative activist Charl...
Dec 10, 2025•49 min
Six million people is greater than the population of Norway. But that’s how many British people of working age are claiming benefits instead of working, so said Kemi Badenoch at a press conference this morning about how to “get Britain working”. With more workless households than the population of Estonia (1.4m), and one in four people now self-reporting as disabled, Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley ask how Britain became one big welfare state, explain why Labour’s workers rights bill isn’t going...
Dec 09, 2025•40 min
Reform’s Nigel Farage is having one of those weeks, with more headlines, more scrutiny, and yet more bad press. Camilla and Tim unpack The Telegraph’s exclusive investigation into alleged election fraud with our associate political editor Tony Diver, after claims the Reform party overspent during the Clacton campaign. And as Prince Harry secures a review of the decision to remove his automatic armed police protection, we explain the latest developments in his legal battle, the current “bespoke” ...
Dec 08, 2025•40 min
The BBC is facing mounting accusations that it has failed to report impartially on transgender issues. A formal complaint has been sent to Ofcom by the Bayswater Support Group, which represents hundreds of parents who believe the broadcaster has promoted one-sided coverage of sex and gender. The group accuses senior editors of failing to reflect dissenting views, glossing over safeguarding concerns, and presenting gender identity as an uncontested fact. Camilla and Tim Stanley are joined by pare...
Dec 05, 2025•47 min
On today’s edition of The Daily T, Camilla Tominey is joined in the studio by former Conservative MP Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg. Sir Jacob has his say on Labour cancelling mayoral elections for next year, in areas that Telegraph data analysis says Reform are favourites to win. He also reflects on the rumours of Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch agreeing a Reform-Conservative pact before the next election. We want to hear from you! Email us at thedailyt@telegraph.co.uk or find @dailytpodcast on TikTok, Ins...
Dec 04, 2025•31 min
Is the Royal family value for money, or are they ripping us off? The Parliamentary public affairs committee announced that it will hold an inquiry into the properties and land owned by the monarchy, following the responses it received to questions about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s peppercorn rent at Royal Lodge. As if that wasn’t enough, David Dimbleby has them in his sights in a new three-part BBC documentary titled “What’s the Monarchy For?” Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley are joined in the s...
Dec 03, 2025•45 min
Sir John Redwood, the former Conservative MP for Wokingham, treasury adviser to Margaret Thatcher and Welsh Secretary under John Major, has discovered a “borrowing bomb” in the Budget that no one has noticed. Rachel Reeves reminded us at the despatch box last week that her choice was “not austerity; not reckless borrowing; but cutting the debt”, going on to say that “I said I would cut debt and borrowing, and I meant it”. However, Sir John has discovered that, far from doing that, her plans will...
Dec 02, 2025•25 min
Rachel Reeves’s shambolic autumn Budget unravelled at pace over the weekend, after accusations that she lied to the public about the need for higher taxes, and in fact had more fiscal headroom than she indicated. Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley react to Keir Starmer’s press conference, where he said he and the Chancellor “did not mislead” the public about the state of the nation’s finances and question whether, if Rachel Reeves goes, then the Prime Minister must too. Plus, our Senior Political C...
Dec 01, 2025•36 min
With Megxit, the death of Queen Elizabeth II, two cancer diagnoses, and now the ejection of Prince Andrew, there has been something of a Royal reckoning in recent years. So is the monarchy losing its grip - and the public’s support? Camilla is joined by seasoned Royal reporter Robert Jobson to discuss the state of the modern monarchy. He reveals the details of the late Queen’s angry phone call with Prince Harry over money; his interaction with Fergie on Mount Everest; and why Prince William refu...
Nov 28, 2025•39 min
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 Kemi Badenoch’s response in the chamber as too personal. They’re also joined by former Treasury advi...
Nov 27, 2025•42 min
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, Reform UK’s Danny Kruger and Labour backbencher Clive Lewis - who’s pledged to step down in his Norwich...
Nov 26, 2025•48 min
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, Tim went to watch Samir Shah’s appearance before the culture committee yesterday, and explains why th...
Nov 25, 2025•40 min
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 during one of the most chaotic lead-ups to a Budget in memory. Plus, Conservative chairman Kevin Hollin...
Nov 24, 2025•37 min
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 tells The Daily T about his relief that the world knows about Bashir’s deception, his regret at neve...
Nov 21, 2025•41 min
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 Rachel Reeves is going to employ a “mansion tax” to help balance the books. In today’s Daily T, Tim is ...
Nov 20, 2025•43 min
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 that a Russian intelligence-gathering ship, the Yantar, has been skirting the edge of UK waters north of ...
Nov 19, 2025•41 min
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. But things got interesting when Kemi Badenoch called out a Guardian journalist who was in the room. ...
Nov 18, 2025•44 min
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. Camilla and Tim ask whether a policy that Labour MPs are calling “divisive” and “cruel”, and that Reform'...
Nov 17, 2025•37 min
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 hear from Andy Webb, the author of an explosive new book about Martin Bashir’s Panorama interview with ...
Nov 14, 2025•58 min
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 that suggested he was encouraging violence. Camilla and Tim speak to the former graphic designer at Newsni...
Nov 13, 2025•19 min
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 during his media rounds, saying he was ‘a Faithful’ in reference to the BBC series The Traitors. Camilla and T...
Nov 12, 2025•27 min
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 director general Tim Davie has told his staff to “fight for our journalism” and attacked the BBC’s “enemies”. In toda...
Nov 11, 2025•28 min
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 Tim ask what's next for the BBC, address the claims that Davie and Turness were victims of a “Right-w...
Nov 10, 2025•40 min
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 Wandsworth this week, part of a wider pattern of failures that’s seen record numbers of inmates let out in...
Nov 07, 2025•44 min
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 his love of the UK, and his worry that the country is "losing the race on everything", including free...
Nov 06, 2025•50 min
