The Mandelson files have been released, and they are damning. The documents reveal that Sir Keir Starmer was warned that appointing Lord Mandelson as US ambassador posed a “reputational risk” over his “particularly close” relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. They also make clear the PM knew the peer remained friends with Epstein even after his conviction for child sex offences. After sifting through the 147 pages, Tim and Camilla decipher the biggest revelations – including that Lord Mandelson was...
Mar 11, 2026•34 min
Donald Trump said on Monday that the Iran war was “very complete, pretty much”. But Pete Hegseth, his defence secretary, has said we have seen “only just the beginning” of the assault. When asked for clarification, the president said, “in a way, it’s both”. But with suggestions that Washington was bounced into the war by Israel, and as Iran escalates the conflict across the region, is this even Trump’s war to end anymore? Tim and Camilla are joined by David Blair, The Telegraph’s chief foreign a...
Mar 10, 2026•46 min
Keir Starmer and Donald Trump have finally spoken after the president hurled a string of insults at the Prime Minister over his inaction on the Iran war. But is the special relationship now irreparably damaged? Camilla and Tim react to suggestions that the King’s state visit should be cancelled and explain how decades of divesting from defence have made us even more reliant on our friends across the pond. Meanwhile, Trump has said that soaring oil prices, which have hit $118 a barrel for the fir...
Mar 09, 2026•50 min
Labour is too scared of losing Muslim voters to address Islamist extremism. That’s according to Fiyaz Mughal, the counter-terrorism expert who left the Home Office over concerns it was overlooking radicalisation in the Muslim community for fear of appearing Islamophobic. A moderate Muslim himself, Fiyaz tells Camilla that failed integration has bred ghettoisation of Muslim communities, and how a formal definition of Islamophobia will be “misused by malign actors to curtail free speech”. A Home O...
Mar 06, 2026•1 hr 6 min
Shabana Mahmood has announced a host of new anti-immigration measures in Labour’s most radical policy intervention since it came to power. The plans include offering asylum-seeking families up to £40,000 to leave Britain, as well as suspending student visas for four countries over migrants using the system as a backdoor route to claim asylum. Camilla and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg assess the plans, after Mahmood tells Camilla at a press conference that the measures are "not the end of the action that w...
Mar 05, 2026•44 min
A fresh China spying scandal has hit Labour after David Taylor, the partner of Joani Reid, the MP for East Kilbride and Strathaven, was arrested on suspicion of assisting Beijing intelligence. Police arrested Mr Taylor along with two other men under the same charges. The arrests followed a bruising encounter for Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs, where Kemi Badenoch branded his response to the Iran war “weak and pathetic”. Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley review what happened, and express their surprise t...
Mar 04, 2026•43 min
Sir Keir Starmer has been forced into an embarrassing scramble to send a warship to Cyprus, after France announced a major deployment to Mediterranean. Camilla and Tim speak to Labour MP Emily Thornberry, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, who has called the US-Israel strikes on Iran illegal – and tells The Daily T, “you can't attack a country because you don’t like it and because you want it to be different.” Meanwhile, the Chancellor has delivered her Spring Statement, in which she...
Mar 03, 2026•40 min
Donald Trump has told The Telegraph that he is “very disappointed” in Sir Keir Starmer, after the Government initially refused the US permission to use UK bases to stage an operation that killed Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. After the PM belatedly gave Trump the go-ahead, Camilla and Tim speak to former chief of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove, who bemoans Starmer’s “flip-flopping” on the issue. While he does not think Iran presents an “imminent nuclear threat”, Sir Richard does believe...
Mar 02, 2026•48 min
A resounding win for the Green Party in the Gorton and Denton by-election looks set to cause seismic consequences, with Labour MPs once again questioning Keir Starmer's leadership. Camilla and Tim ask whether the PM should have allowed Andy Burnham to stand and if Labour's disastrous third-place result will speed up an Angela Rayner coronation. They also assess allegations of electoral fraud in the constituency, with reports of “family voting”, and assess Reform’s performance. With Matt Goodwin ...
Feb 27, 2026•42 min
It’s election day in Gorton and Denton, and the polls are so tight it’s impossible to call a winner. The campaign itself has been an ugly one, with each party accusing the other of dirty tricks and the Greens accused of “manipulating” an area with a large Muslim population in an attempt to divide the contest along religious lines. Telegraph columnist Allister Heath decries this “retrograde step towards sectarianism” as a “disaster for democracy”, as elections should be “decided on whether polici...
Feb 26, 2026•45 min
This week’s PMQs was dominated by the extraordinary arrest of Peter Mandelson, who was detained after police were allegedly warned he was preparing to flee the country by no other than the Speaker of the Commons, Lindsay Hoyle. Camilla and Tim react to the explosive exchanges at PMQs, including Kemi Badenoch’s attack branding Labour the “paedo defender party”, the Tories’ choice to go hard on student debt, and some very obviously planted questions on the Gorton and Denton by-election. And Tim he...
Feb 25, 2026•37 min
As Lord Mandelson’s arrest sends shock waves through Westminster , Sir Keir Starmer is set to face his biggest electoral test yet. It is not just a by-election; it is a referendum on the establishment. This week, all eyes are on Manchester as the Gorton and Denton by-election prepares to deliver a verdict that could redefine the UK’s political map and stick another nail in Labour’s coffin . Camilla and Tim are joined by Scarlett Maguire, pollster and founder of Merlin Strategies, to break down t...
Feb 24, 2026•1 hr 4 min
If that deeply unflattering photo of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was not bad enough, there are now more revelations about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The former prince is alleged to have spent taxpayer money on massages and faces questions over his use of RAF jets to meet with the sex offender. The wayward royal could even be removed from the line of succession under potential Government plans. Camilla and Tim ask if, amidst all the scandal, the Prince and Princess of Wales can keep th...
Feb 23, 2026•42 min
As the police investigation into Andrew Mountbatten Windsor continues , his friend Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in the heinous crimes of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But as the final Epstein files are released to the public , a haunting question remains: has she become a “convenient stand-in” for a dead man while other high-profile figures walk free? In this exclusive episode of The Daily T, Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley are joined in the studi...
Feb 20, 2026•52 min
Historic scenes unfolded at the Sandringham estate this morning as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the first senior Royal in modern British history to be taken into police custody. It's the culmination of months of damaging revelations from documents included in the Epstein files. Officers had been assessing allegations that he shared sensitive information with the convicted paedophile when he was a trade envoy. The Telegraph’s Royal Editor Ha...
Feb 19, 2026•27 min
Keir Starmer has served a group of Chagos Islanders who landed by boat on the territory on Tuesday with an eviction notice, threatening them with a three-year prison term if they don’t leave. The Chagossians who returned are protesting against the government handing the islands back to Mauritius, and include the elected first minister Misley Mandarin. Camilla and Tim speak to Chagos campaigner and sister of Mr Mandarin, Vanessa Calou, who says that Starmer has “given away our island without cons...
Feb 18, 2026•37 min
Nigel Farage has announced Reform’s “shadow” Cabinet team as he continues to prepare for a general election that he insists will happen in 2027. Camilla and Tim assess who got what job, the absent roles (and faces) and Farage’s reaction to the Daily Telegraph’s “Campaign for Democracy” after the Government U-turn on cancelling 30 local elections. They also speak to Suella Braverman, Reform’s new “shadow” education minister, who has pledged to introduce a “patriotic curriculum” and to repeal the ...
Feb 17, 2026•41 min
Another day, another Labour scandal. The campaign group that helped sweep Sir Keir Starmer into No 10, Labour Together, now stands accused of orchestrating a sinister smear campaign against journalists. After The Sunday Times revealed the group had failed to declare £730,000 in donations, Labour Together reportedly paid a US consultancy to dig into the “backgrounds and motivations” of reporters Gabriel Pogrund and Harry Yorke. As the Cabinet Office begins “looking into” the affair, Camilla and J...
Feb 16, 2026•40 min
“Beijing’s public enemy No 1” – a title that defines the fate of the media mogul Jimmy Lai. A self-made millionaire, a British citizen and an unapologetic opponent of China’s authoritarian regime, he now sits behind bars, facing a 20-year sentence under Hong Kong’s draconian national security law. Camilla and Tim speak exclusively to Sebastien Lai, Jimmy’s son, about his father’s deteriorating health, his disappointment with Sir Keir Starmer and the British Government’s “lacklustre” response, an...
Feb 13, 2026•40 min
Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has been forced to apologise for describing the UK as “colonised by immigrants,” after Sir Keir Starmer described his words as “offensive and wrong”. Camilla is joined by Jacob Rees Mogg, who says Ratcliffe is merely highlighting “a lack of integration” and that the PM is “in no place to moralise at the moment” after a series of scandals. Elsewhere, the podcast speaks to students who are leaving university with an average of £53,000 worth of debt, a b...
Feb 12, 2026•47 min
Sir Keir Starmer is facing yet another crisis over his poor judgment after it emerged that he nominated his former spin doctor, linked to the convicted paedophile Sean Morton, to the House of Lords. Kemi Badenoch skewered the Prime Minister in the Commons over Lord Doyle’s appointment, accusing him of “stuffing Government with hypocrites and paedophile apologists”. Tim and Camilla review a disastrous PMQs for Sir Keir and question his latest distraction tactic of playing up his “working class” b...
Feb 11, 2026•47 min
Sir Keir Starmer has pulled his premiership back from the brink. The PM secured the support of most of his party with an uncharacteristic show of passion at a meeting of Labour MPs on Monday night – but, with local elections imminent, his position is far from secure. Camilla and Tim are joined by the Labour MP and Starmer ally Karl Turner, who says the “terribly cautious” PM needs to be “more normal” and focus on delivery. Plus, King Charles has thrown his brother under a Royal carriage with a s...
Feb 10, 2026•46 min
Keir Starmer was probably hoping today would be another chance to reset his premiership, following the departure this weekend of Morgan McSweeney, his chief of staff. Instead he's been hit first by the departure of Tim Allan, his director of communications, and then by Anas Sarwar, the leader of Labour in Scotland, who became the most senior figure from his party to urge the PM to resign. Camilla and Tim speak to Lee Cain, former director of communications to Boris Johnson, to find out what it i...
Feb 09, 2026•47 min
Keir Starmer’s visit to Beijing was meant to signal a reset in Britain’s relationship with China. Instead, it has sparked fresh questions about how far the UK should go in courting a global superpower accused of sliding back towards authoritarian rule. On today’s Daily T , Camilla and Tim speak to bestselling author Jung Chang, whose latest book Fly, Wild Swans traces China’s path from the horrors of Mao’s Cultural Revolution to the Xi Jinping era. Chang argues that Western leaders are ignoring ...
Feb 08, 2026•50 min
Lucy Letby is modern Britain’s most prolific child killer. The former neonatal nurse was convicted of murdering seven newborn babies and attempting to kill seven more. But medical experts and others have since raised serious doubts about the evidence used to convict her and some are now calling the case one of the greatest miscarriages of justice ever. In an exclusive interview, The Daily T speaks to Letby’s lawyer, who tells Camilla Tominey he is convinced she is innocent – and reveals her stat...
Feb 06, 2026•28 min
Sir Keir Starmer is facing a rebellion by Labour MPs over his handing of the Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Labour backbencher Andy McDonald tells Camilla and Tim the PM is “hanging by a thread” after the Government was forced into an embarrassing climbdown on the release of Mandelson’s vetting documents. Elswhere, Kemi Badenoch tells Camilla that “someone should lose their job” over the “number one” sleaze scandal of modern times. We want to hear from you! Email us at thedailyt@te...
Feb 05, 2026•47 min
Keir Starmer was given a grilling at Prime Minister’s Questions this lunchtime, with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch forcing the Prime Minister into admitting that he was aware of Peter Mandelson’s ongoing relationship with Jeffrey Epstein at the time of his appointment as US ambassador, but decided to press ahead with the move anyway. Starmer, for his part, threw the one-time party grandee to the wolves, saying Mandelson had “lied repeatedly to his team, had “betrayed” his country with the ap...
Feb 04, 2026•35 min
Peter Mandelson is under criminal investigation by the Metropolitan Police over claims that he leaked confidential government emails to Jeffrey Epstein. The Labour peer finally stepped down from the House of Lords today following a damaging week for the Government, after newly released material laid bare his relationship with the convicted sex offender. The revelations have intensified pressure on Labour and reopened questions about why the twice-disgraced former Cabinet minister was brought bac...
Feb 03, 2026•40 min
Amongst the three million files released by the US department of justice pertaining to the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, two people in particular emerge badly: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Lord Mandelson. Camilla and Tim reflect on the calls for Lord Mandelson to be stripped of his peerage following the revelations, including that he leaked confidential government documents to the disgraced financier. They also question why Keir Starmer ever appointed him as US ambassador. Later, royal biographer...
Feb 02, 2026•44 min
Knife crime in the UK has reached “national epidemic” levels, with 53,000 offences recorded in England and Wales in the year to March 2025. But how has this tragedy become so dangerously normalised, and what is the Labour government actually doing to tackle it? We look into the tragic killing of 16-year-old Ronan Kanda, who was murdered in 2022 with a ninja sword purchased online by two 17-year-olds in a case of mistaken identity. Ronan’s mother, Pooja Kanda, joins us to discuss the campaign tha...
Jan 30, 2026•41 min
