Sir Keir Starmer has called for Nick Timothy , the shadow Lord Chancellor, to be sacked after he described a Ramadan prayer event in Trafalgar Square as “an act of domination” from an “Islamist playbook”. The row has exposed divisions within the Conservatives. Leader Kemi Badenoch backed Mr Timothy, while James Cleverly, a fellow shadow secretary, distanced himself from the remarks. Tim Stanley and Rachel Johnson are joined by the man himself to unpack the political fallout of his comments for t...
Mar 26, 2026•34 min
Reform’s walked out of Prime Minister’s Questions this lunchtime, infuriated at Sir Keir Starmer’s refusal to answer Nigel Farage’s question about small boat crossings. Reform deputy leader Richard Tice tells Camilla and Tim that his party felt it was time to “make a point” about Starmer’s “rude” and “arrogant” behaviour. Elsewhere, they also examine the timeline of Morgan McSweeney’s stolen phone, with the news it was in fact lost shortly after Peter Mandelson had been sacked. The plot thickens...
Mar 25, 2026•29 min
Donald Trump says he is negotiating with Iran – but won’t say who with – while, at the same time, thousands of US marines are arriving in the Middle East. Iran says reports of negotiations with the US president are “fake news” and it has placed mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Camilla and Tim attempt to get inside Trump's mind and ask whether he truly is negotiating with Iran with the aim of pulling off an extraordinary feat of international statecraft, or buying time to prepare for a ground invas...
Mar 24, 2026•46 min
Camilla and Tim react to a shocking arson attack on Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green, with the Government's antisemitism adviser Lord Mann telling The Daily T that "this wasn't random, this was done to scare the Jewish community". We also hear from the diplomat who lifts the lid on alleged Islamist sympathisers inside the Foreign Office, after civil servants attended an event celebrating the anniversary of the Iranian revolution, only weeks after the regime had begun brutally crackdown on its...
Mar 23, 2026•49 min
A self-made financier, a master manipulator or a fraud hiding in plain sight? Jeffrey Epstein’s story begins in Brooklyn. He was the son of working-class parents and left university without a degree. Yet somehow he talked his way into elite classrooms and, eventually, the highest tiers of Wall Street. On today’s Daily T , Camilla and our writers Mick Brown and Robert Mendick trace Epstein’s ascent from a maths-savvy teenager and eccentric teacher to a powerful operator entrusted with billions. T...
Mar 20, 2026•50 min
"Deranged conspiracy and melodrama". That's how Harry and Meghan have described Tom Bower's explosive new book about them - 'Betrayal' - saying it had "crossed the line from criticism into fixation". On today's Daily T, Tom joins Camilla and Tim in the studio and says that's nonsense; they're awful, and the treachery, disloyalty, and duplicity of the Sussex's post Royal life could see them being cut out of the Royal Family for good. We want to hear from you! Email us at thedailyt@telegraph.co.uk...
Mar 19, 2026•47 min
Is it really a Prime Minister’s Questions if the Prime Minister refuses to answer any questions? That was the frustration in the Commons this lunchtime, with Kemi Badenoch attempting to pin Sir Keir Starmer down on Peter Mandelson's appointment, but to no avail. Camilla and Tim assess a fractious and chaotic PMQs. Elsewhere, they speak to Sir Geoffrey Cox, the Conservative MP and former attorney general, after a barnstorming parliamentary speech in which he excoriated David Lammy’s plans to limi...
Mar 18, 2026•56 min
Rachel Reeves has used her ‘Mais Lecture’ speech at Bayes Business School to announce a ‘deeper relationship’ with the European Union, criticising Brexit for the damage it has done to the UK economy. Camilla, Tim and Allister Heath question why the Government is choosing to pursue closer relations with a bloc whose growth is a fraction of the United States’, and ask whether it’s more of an idealogical choice than a pragmatic one. Elsewhere, Camilla and Tim attend Reform’s latest press conference...
Mar 17, 2026•43 min
Keir Starmer has once again refused to be commit to any kind of support for the conflict in the Middle East, even after Donald Trump promised “he will remember” the UK’s lack of action. In a press conference this morning, Sir Keir also refused to clarify whether fuel duty would rise in September, with the conflict already sending forecourt prices through the roof. After a weekend that saw damning extracts of a new book that paints Sir Keir as a Prime Minister in name only, with no fixed ideas, p...
Mar 16, 2026•46 min
In one of his most candid interviews to date, William Hague admits to the Daily T that his stint at leader was “the least successful period of my career”. The former Conservative leader and foreign secretary tells Camilla and Tim he was too young to command the role. Hague also reveals how it felt going head to head with Tony Blair every week and opens up about the intrusion into his private life while in the public eye. Plus, he says Keir Starmer’s “flatfooted” response to the Iran war has brou...
Mar 13, 2026•52 min
It’s the day after the release of the Mandelson files and now attention is turning to what isn’t in the documents. Crucially, we don’t know how the Prime Minister responded once he was presented with clear evidence that the Labour peer had a close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Sir Keir has insisted to Parliament that due process was followed at all times. But Tim and Camilla ask: do the revelations contained in these files make a mockery of that claim? Plus, the Government has pushed ahead wi...
Mar 12, 2026•50 min
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
