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Can Nigel Farage be PM?
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A major new YouGov poll has revealed that Reform UK would win the most seats of any party if a general election were held today, making Nigel Far...
With Starmer on the ropes, can Kemi land a knockout blow?
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Almost one year in, and are the wheels falling off for Labour?Angela Rayner has confirmed that the vote on Labour’s hugely controversial welfare ref...
Sarah Vine on why ex Michael Gove knifed Boris Johnson and Cameron the ‘man-baby’
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leaked emails, toxic campaigns and political fallouts - Sarah Vine, journalist, columnist and ex-wife of former Conservative minister Michael Gove, ha...
Why won't Starmer stand with Trump on Iran?
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The coordinated bombing of major Iranian nuclear sites by American stealth bombers yesterday marked a dramatic escalation of tensions in the Middle Ea...
Dominic Cummings on the small boat crisis, our broken political system and Farage
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A man best known for his role in the 2016 Brexit campaign and his controversial tenure as Boris Johnson’s chief advisor, Dominic Cummings has often ...
' This is a war for the survival of Jews' – Chief Rabbi stranded in Israel
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Iran and Israel trade missile strikes, Israel’s airspace has shut down, leaving tens of thousands of foreign nationals stranded, including thousa...
Can We Be Great Again? Jeremy Hunt’s pitch for ‘Military Might’
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a period of more global conflict than any time in the last 80 years, can the UK regain its ‘military might’ to safeguard democracies and demons...
Trump vs Iran: Inside the situation room
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As tensions in the Middle East hit a boiling point with the crisis between Iran and Israel growing deeper every day, President Trump is reportedly wei...
'I don't trust Labour one bit': Grooming victim's father on new inquiry
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Starmer’s decision to U-turn on a national inquiry into the historic sexual abuse of thousands of young girls hasn't been met with the praise he mig...
‘Scandal will get worse with illegal immigration’: Detective-turned-whistleblower Maggie Oliver on grooming inquiry
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After months of prevaricating, the Government has announced a national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal. The reversal comes off the back of a r...
What the Left gets wrong about Margaret Thatcher
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
She is simultaneously one of the most loved and hated figures in British history. But Margaret Thatcher certainly made in indelible mark on our politi...
London-bound Air India plane crash: What happened?
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An Air India flight bound for Gatwick Airport crashed not long after takeoff on Thursday, with more than 50 British nationals on board.Local officials...
'Spending like a drunken sailor': Rachel Reeves’s splurge-a-thon
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled her first major spending review, pledging tens of billions in additional funding for public services, including ...
‘Tax rises are inevitable’: Rachel Reeves’s spending review decoded
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Chancellor’s much-anticipated spending review is a day away, with extra cash expected for defence, health and education.Are tax rises on the hor...
Labour's winter fuel U-turn fires up Farage
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Reeves finally confirmed Labour’s rumoured U-turn on the winter fuel cut for pensioners this lunchtime, completing a humiliating climb down f...
Musk v Trump, Yusuf v Reform – inside the Right’s fight with itself
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a tumultuous twenty four hours on the Right, both in the UK and in the US.Firstly, Reform chairman Zia Yusuf resigned from the party yeste...
BONUS: Zia Yusuf resigns – has Reform just imploded?
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Just ten minutes after we'd published today's podcast on whether Reform and Nigel Farage could achieve a stunning victory in Scotland in a by-election...
Is Farage coming for Scotland?
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Farage’s big test in Scotland. For years it was a political dead-end for Reform party leader - heckled in Edinburgh, chased from restaurants ...
Why does Donald Trump hate the BBC?
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump's administration has renewed their attacks on the BBC over its coverage of Gaza, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt accusing the corpo...
New search for evidence against Madeleine McCann prime suspect
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The case captured the world’s attention back in 2007 and has continued to pop up in headlines ever since. But the disappearance of Madeleine McCann ...
Why Labour can't be trusted to defend Britain
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Strategic Defence Review is out. Designed to be a root and branch look at all aspects of Britain’s armed forces, and billed as a “message to M...
Israeli ambassador: The international community is wrong on Gaza aid
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since Hamas's brutal terror attack on Israel in October 2023, the military campaign in Gaza has drawn both support and, lately, mounting international...
Michael Wolff: Trump is getting what he wants, conflict
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There's never a dull moment in the White House when Donald Trump is the president. Elon Musk yesterday began "offloading" from his role overseein...
Rachel Reeves’ spending headache just got a lot worse
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With just two weeks until Rachel Reeves’ spending review, there are calls from across the Labour frontbench for more cash — just as the Chancellor...
Forget the Tories – Farage is now at war with Labour
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nigel Farage says he’s coming for Labour voters, and he’s bringing a bold new benefits policy with him. The Reform UK leader is promising to lift ...
Mary Trump: My uncle Donald was always a bully. But now he's dangerous
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump’s niece has famously called him a “narcissist” and “the world’s most dangerous man”.In part 2 of a Daily T deep-dive into the...
Jason Miller: Trump’s right-hand man reveals all
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Miller has been by Donald Trump’s side since 2016.One of his longest-serving strategists, Miller has had a front row seat during the remarkabl...
Labour at war as prices go through the roof
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Inflation has risen to 3.5%, putting fresh pressure on the Bank of England and on households already feeling the squeeze. But that’s not the on...
Reform up, Tories down: Can Kemi survive the Brexit reset nightmare?
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty-four hours after Keir Starmer announced a shift on fishing rights and closer alignment with the EU, the backlash has been fierce. Reform a...
Starmer’s Brexit betrayal
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Prime Minister has, in his words, struck a "win-win" deal with the European Union which will begin a "new era" in UK-EU relations, arguing that he...
Sophie Winkleman: ‘I don’t think children should have access to the internet'
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Daily T exclusive, actress Sophie Winkleman, also known as Lady Frederick Windsor, speaks out about the growing influence of education technol...
Rupert Lowe: 'Farage is leading a cult, I might start my own party'
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the row inside Reform rumbles on, Camilla speaks to the man behind the headlines: Rupert Lowe. In the wake of his blistering attack on his former a...
'A coward and a viper': Is Rupert Lowe right about Farage?
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a day of contrasting fortunes for Nigel Farage and Reform.First, the good: The Telegraph has revealed analysis that demonstrated ...
Davey: Starmer is echoing Enoch Powell on immigration
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Keir Starmer has promised to take a tougher stance on immigration — but there are fears the government’s new ban on the recruitment of foreign car...
Starmer channels Farage on migration. But is anyone buying it?
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Keir Starmer has finally unveiled his long-awaited immigration white paper, vowing to bring down the numbers “significantly”. But despite the toug...
Death in Kenya: The cover-up that failed a murdered British woman
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the charred remains of a young British woman were found in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve in 1988, the Kenyan authorities tried to convince her fat...
“A Very Great Deal”: How Trump and Starmer sealed it
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Has Keir Starmer finally got something right? In a slightly awkward speaker phone press conference, the Prime Minister and President Donald Trump anno...
British jobs for British workers and electing the new Pope
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UK and India have agreed to the terms of a free trade deal, set to be Britain’s largest since Brexit. Yet, controversial tax breaks could exempt...
How Farage could win the next general election
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week’s local elections marked a turning point for Reform UK. Nigel Farage’s party gained control of councils for the first time, picking up h...
'I landed on the Normandy beaches and met Bergen-Belsen inmates'
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the country marks VE Day later this week, we hear from one of the few living voices who can still speak to the harsh reality of World War II. Mervy...
Sir Geoffrey Boycott on cancer, cricket and why Britain is broken
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cricket legend Sir Geoffrey Boycott is one of the world's most famous sportsmen. The England test batsman was the man who could defend against the ver...
"A seismic moment": Is Reform now the official opposition?
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has had a breakthrough night at the local elections — making big gains in local councils, winning their first mayoralty i...
The trial of the century that beat the Holocaust deniers
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Next week marks 80 years since VE Day — the end of the Second World War and the defeat of Nazi Germany. But in the shadow of that anniversary, and i...
100 days of Trump: The good, the bad and the ugly
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Naturally, he has called it “the most successful first 100 days of any administration in the history of our country”.But how is Donald Trump reall...
Mark Carney wins: Is woke here to stay in Canada?
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canada’s Liberal Party have secured a remarkable comeback at the election, with former Bank of England governor Mark Carney declaring victory to bec...
Is Keir Starmer trying to walk us back into the EU?
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
Here comes Farage’s big election test - will he pass?
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Is multiculturalism dead? Nigel Farage speaks to The Daily T in Dover
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Rachel Reeves is in trouble – and Trump's making it worse
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Martina Navratilova: Trump is right, women's sport should be for women only
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Martina Navratilova is one of the world’s greatest ever tennis players. She won a record-breaking 59 Grand Slam titles, including 18 singles ti...
The school chaplain cancelled for questioning LGBT dogma
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Reverend Bernard Randall had been happily teaching at a private Church of England boarding school in Derbyshire when he was abruptly sacked for gross ...
Starmer’s shameful silence on trans court ruling
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
"Women are owed an apology”: Why the struggle continues despite trans court ruling
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transgender women are not legally women, the Supreme Court declared in a landmark ruling on Wednesday.The judges’ unanimous decision follows a years...
Tiramisu hot cross buns? Ice cream eggs? The Easter food must-haves and must-avoids
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The British Steel saga has ended our love affair with Chinese money
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After an emergency Saturday sitting of parliament, British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant is now - to all intents and purposes - under government control....
'Woke' former top cop: Immigration has gone 'too far, too fast' and grooming inquiry should happen
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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. O...
Inside the room: Why Trump had to bow to the markets
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 abo...
Labour's Birmingham bin farce and grooming inquiry betrayal
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 fai...
Trump: Why he’s right on China
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 threat...
Has Trump’s ‘economic nuclear winter’ left Starmer out in the cold?
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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. B...
"We were called Nazis": The feminists who fought the trans mob, and won
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the health secretary Wes Streeting banning puberty blocker drugs for children and President Trump barring trans women from women’s sports, is t...
Trumpageddon: Could tariffs finally make Brexit work for Britain?
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 dubbe...
The White House reporter who ambushed Zelensky explains Trump's tariffs
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, w...
Labour's 'awful April' and Trump's tariffs – how much worse off will you be?
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 bala...
Robert Jenrick on the 'nonsense' two tier justice system
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 minor...
Farage has his big moment – but can he cut it?
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Trump tariffs torch Rachel Reeves’s fiscal plans
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Within hours of the Spring Statement yesterday, the Government was left scrambling to negotiate with the US as President Trump introduced a whopping 2...
The Treasury trickery behind Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Rachel Reeves’s doomed Spring Statement
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will deliver the 2025 Spring Statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday.Rachel Reeves' plan is to tel...
Should Heathrow's sleeping CEO be sacked?
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 unde...
Why Elon Musk is wrong about Tommy Robinson
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
What Netflix’s Adolescence teaches us about Britain’s lost boys
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Trump: The dealmaker who can't make a deal
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Labour bottles the benefits crackdown
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After weeks of pitch-rolling, Labour has finally unveiled what are probably the Government's most controversial reforms since entering office.Liz Kend...
Farage unveils more defectors, but can he move on from Reform's civil war?
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Rupe...
Trump ally: "We aren't going to take Moscow," so Ukraine will lose land
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Pu...
The state is out of control - and Starmer is unlikely to fix it
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Prime Minister has pledged to tackle Britain’s “overcautious, flabby state”, admitting that record taxation and spending in recent years hav...
Russia-Ukraine ceasefire: What is Putin’s next move?
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 dra...
The Trump slump: Will tariffs push the US into recession?
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 tarif...
Farage vs Lowe: Who will win the battle for Reform?
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 al...
The Tech Boss Who Was Russia's Secret Spy | Episode 3
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A “sophisticated” UK-based spy ring passed secrets to Russia for nearly three years before they were prosecuted. It was revealed that the ring lea...
The Tech Boss Who Was Russia's Secret Spy | Episode 2
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ba...
The Tech Boss Who Was Russia's Secret Spy | Episode 1
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, the...
NHS whistleblower: Trans puberty blocker trial must be stopped
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's a toxic debate that has seen leading academics and feminists cancelled: how to treat children distressed about their gender.Retired psychiatrist ...
Trump’s speech masterclass – and what world leaders can learn
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Trump's Ukraine gambit: Peace...or surrender?
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 n...
Can Europe 'Trump' the Donald on Ukraine?
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a seismic weekend in global politics with nothing less than the future of European security at stake.Kamal and Camilla reflect on Donald T...
In the room where it happened: Trump v Starmer
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Keir Starmer has returned from his whirlwind meeting with Donald Trump in Washington DC, and it seems as though the trip was at least a partial succes...
Starmer v Trump: Can the PM pull it off?
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been billed as one of the most important meetings between a British prime minister and a US president in decades.But Keir Starmer and Donald Tr...
Should the police investigate the BBC's Gaza doc?
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is the documentary threatening a full blown crisis at the BBC. Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone featured three supposedly ordinary children who it w...
Britain defends its place in Trump's new world order
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the US sides with Russia and North Korea in a key vote at the UN, it’s clear the world order is shifting.Under pressure from Donald Trump, Keir S...
Why the AfD can’t be ignored as Germany swings right
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The German elections have taken place and the Bundestag is looking a lot more right-wing than it was this time yesterday.The centre-right CDU (Christi...
How Hamas' hostage horror could spark a new war
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was an appalling image: the coffins of four Israeli hostages, two of them young children, presented on stage in front of a crowd before being retur...
Trump flirts with Putin on Ukraine - and it's splitting the Right
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After President Trump attacked Volodymyr Zelensky as a “dictator” and suggested Ukraine started the war with Russia, Righties in the UK have ...
Rachel Reeves' economic doom loop
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In bad news for the Chancellor Rachel Reeves, inflation shot back up in January, with prices rising by 3%. Who could have possibly seen this coming, a...
The Farage-fest that shows Reform is on the rise
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two figures loomed large at the Alliance for Responsible Citizens (ARC) conference in East London today. Donald Trump - whose playbook many of the del...
Ex-British Army chief: Trump's Ukraine plan has “echoes of the 1930s”
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The war in Ukraine is firmly back on the agenda of Western leaders. Keir Starmer was at a hastily organised European summit in Paris on Monday, as Rus...
The moderate Imam taking on Labour – and the Muslim extremists
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Angela Rayner is planning to set up a council on Islamophobia, tasked with drawing up an official definition for anti-Muslim discrimination.But some s...
Trump-Putin talks leave Europe in 'a pre-war era'
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well, he promised it and now he seems to be well on the way to delivering. Donald Trump held a phone call with Russia's Vladimir Putin and agreed to b...
Are judges fuelling Britain’s migration crisis?
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Telegraph has revealed that a family of six Palestinians seeking to flee Gaza has been granted the right to live in the UK using a scheme meant fo...