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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...

How Labour became the real nasty party

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Keir Starmer and his mates were only too happy to play the role of the moral arbiters in opposition.But after constant accusations of cronyism last ye...

Kemi Badenoch: I will never get into bed with Farage

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kemi Badenoch has ruled out signing a pact with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, saying the party’s manifesto promises “didn’t add up”.Speaking exc...

Inside Reform’s plot to make Nigel Farage PM

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

They've overtaken Labour in the polls for the first time, and now they have their sights set firmly on Number 10.Despite Labour cancelling local elect...

Britain's strictest headteacher vs Bridget Phillipson

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Katharine Birbalsingh, who has become known as Britain’s strictest headteacher, has accused Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson of being a “Mar...

Can Trump Make Gaza Great Again?

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Even by Donald Trump’s standards, it’s pretty out there.During a visit by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, the President d...

The new evidence that could exonerate Lucy Letby

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

‘We did not find any murders’. Those are the damning words of world-renowned neonatologist Dr Shoo Lee, one of a panel of experts questioning the ...

Trump's tariff war: madness or masterstroke?

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

President Trump looks to have started an all-out trade war with his closest neighbours, after sticking a 25pc tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico...

The Daily T Investigates: The AstraZeneca vaccine | Part 3

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this final episode of our mini-series on the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, Investigations Editor Claire Newell explores whether the MHRA, the regulato...

How to save Brexit, with Boris’s negotiator David Frost

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week marks five years since Britain formally left the European Union, after four years and three Prime Ministers worth of post-referendum negotia...

Rachel Reeves set for a crash landing

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Chancellor has given the government’s backing to a third runway at Heathrow Airport, in yet another relaunch speech this morning.Speaking at a f...

How the Home Office failed on extremism

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A leaked Home Office review has recommended that the Government change its approach to extremism, focusing less on "ideologies of concern" and more on...

Are we forgetting the Holocaust?

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp. More than a million people - mostly Jews - were murdered at the ca...

The Daily T Investigates: The AstraZeneca vaccine | Part 2

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When patients were admitted to hospital with unusual symptoms in 2021, their families started to ask questions.Dr Stephen Wright’s family were initi...

Inside the courtroom as Southport killer is sentenced to 52 years

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It is likely that Axel Rudakubana “will be in custody for all his life”, the judge who sentenced the Southport child killer said today.Mr Justice ...

Is Prince Harry's anti-media crusade finally over?

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Duke of Sussex has reached a shock legal settlement of at least £10 million with the publisher of The Sun, despite having previously vowed to go ...

Trump shows Starmer what real leadership looks like

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump is officially back in power, and the 47th president wasted no time on his first day in office, announcing a string of executive orders th...

What we now know about Southport killer Axel Rudakubana

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Axel Rudakubana has pleaded guilty to the murder of three young girls in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport.Kamal and Ca...

Piers Morgan on Trump, Meghan, and if he would interview Tommy Robinson

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

He’s one of Britain’s best known - and most controversial - journalists, famed for his combative style and for interviewing people other outlets w...

Badenoch wins on a grooming inquiry - but is she winning over voters?

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In her first major speech of the year, the Conservative leader has owned up to Tory mistakes of the past and said immigrants who “don’t want to in...

The Daily T Investigates: The AstraZeneca vaccine | Part 1

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Did AstraZeneca's jab kill a healthy 32-year-old?We hear from the family of Dr Stephen Wright, a young clinical psychologist who lost his life in Janu...

Has Trump forced an Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza?

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A “final round” of truce talks aimed at ending the 15-month conflict in Gaza has begun in Qatar.Mediators have said an agreement - to release Isra...

Is Rachel Reeves on borrowed time?

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Labour promised growth. Can it deliver?The Chancellor has flown back from China to financial markets in turmoil, with the cost of long-term Government...

How to improve your life in 31 days

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lose weight. Quit smoking. Budget better. How often do we make ambitious - and laudable - New Year’s resolutions, only to abandon them before the en...

Exclusive: Grooming survivor demands public inquiry

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amid all the noise made by Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch, Nigel Farage and Elon Musk in recent days about the grooming gang scandal, the voices that hav...

Has Labour opened the door to a grooming gangs inquiry?

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Having said a national inquiry into the grooming scandal was off the table, today the government looks to be signalling a possible U-turn. Meanwhile K...

Is Kemi Badenoch losing the battle for the Right?

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

And lessons from Canada's ConservativesThe Tory leader has been oddly quiet since the New Year, despite a heated public row between Keir Starmer, Nige...

Has Elon Musk done Farage a favour?

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tommy Robinson has caused a rift on the rightIt feels like just yesterday the X owner and the Reform leader were pictured together at Mar-a-Lago. Now ...

How parental alienation is tearing families apart

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Described as a child’s rejection of one parent because they have been manipulated by the other, parental alienation can see parents separated from t...

Mick Brown Rewinds - David Bowie

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today we’re handing The Daily T over to The Telegraph’s legendary interviewer, Mick Brown.In the course of a long career in journalism Mick&n...

Your stories of the year: Farage, Trump and farmers

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s New Year’s Eve and what a year it has been for news. On this episode of The Daily T, we’re joined by two special guests in the studio ...

The year that reshaped Westminster

30 Dec 2024

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Sketch writer Tim Stanley and political correspondent Dominic Penna take The Daily T into the heart of Parliament for a special look back at the tumul...

The Daily T Investigates: What happened to Mike Lynch’s doomed yacht?

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When billionaire British entrepeneur Mike Lynch drowned during the sinking of the superyacht Bayesian in August, it sent shockwaves around the world.H...

Mick Brown Rewinds - Stephen Sondheim

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we’re handing The Daily T over to The Telegraph’s legendary interviewer, Mick Brown.In the course of a long career in journalism Mick&n...

The Daily T Big Christmas Quiz

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s Christmas Eve and that can only mean one thing: a big fat quiz. How closely have Kamal and Camilla really been following the news this year? An...

This year's best film and TV to watch this Christmas

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What film and TV made our critics' best of 2024 lists? And what should we be watching over the festive period?Join Telegraph Film Editor Robbie Collin...

The US super-lawyer taking on Jay-Z and P Diddy

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

t was front-page news when earlier this year, rapper and businessman Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was arrested after facing a wave of civil lawsuits related...

How Gisèle Pelicot changed France forever

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gisèle Pelicot’s courage, resilience and fortitude in publically proving a decade of rape and sexual abuse at the hands of her husband and fifty ot...

Should Elon Musk be involved in British politics?

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is surely an image for the history books. Nigel Farage stood next to two billionaires, one of them Elon Musk, at Donald Trump’s Florida estate. T...

Is Rachel Reeves a bad Chancellor?

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

New figures show that not only has the economy contracted, but job hiring is at a record low.Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves strode into Downing Street...

Has a Chinese 'spy' infiltrated the British establishment?

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A Chinese businessman and alleged spy has now been identified as Yang Tengbo after a court order protecting his identity was lifted.He was banned from...

Which supermarket reigns supreme this Christmas?

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today The Daily T is a festive food and drink special! We’re diving into some taste tests to figure out which supermarket is winning Christmas this ...

Will Labour bulldoze our countryside?

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

And the latest Saudi sportswashing as they get the 2034 World CupLabour has unveiled the biggest changes to - and liberalisation of - planning laws in...

Super-prisons: Coming to a village near you?

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Jenrick, shadow justice secretary and former Tory leadership contender, joins Kamal and Camilla in the studio to discuss Labour's multi-billion...

Is Farage better at opposition than Badenoch?

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Another day, another defection to Reform.Billionaire property tycoon Nick Candy renounced his Conservative Party membership to join Farage, ...

How Syrians toppled Assad and why Iran's regime could be next

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With journalist Ruth Sherlock quite literally on the road to Damascus and Tom Tugendhat MP in the studioIn a whirlwind 48 hours, more than half a...

Fraser Nelson on getting Britain back to work

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

More than 9 million people of working age in the UK are not looking for a job or able to start work. Meanwhile sickness and disability benefits cost t...

Can Starmer pull off a Mission Impossible reset?

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Keir Starmer delivered his ‘plan for change’ in a key speech at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, setting out what he called 'milestones' for his...

The latest Tory-to-Reform defector on Musk, Badenoch and immigration

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

ConHome founder Tim Montgomerie has jumped ship.The Conservative Party lost another prominent member this week to Reform - this time an even bigger bl...

Trump vs EU: Why Starmer can't have it all

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a big foreign policy speech on Monday night, the Prime Minister warned Donald Trump that the UK would not side with America against the EU when he ...

Gregg Wallace's apology, and questions for the BBC

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Masterchef host Gregg Wallace has responded to allegations of inappropriate behaviour via an Instagram message, claiming the accusations have only com...

Are the Rees-Moggs the next Kardashians?

30 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In recent years, politicians appearing in reality TV shows has become something of a trend - think Matt Hancock and Nigel Farage on I'm a Celebrity, E...

Can the assisted dying bill still be blocked?

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The assisted dying bill may have cleared its first hurdle in the House of Commons, but could it still be blocked? In a historic vote in parliament thi...

Will Labour’s failures put Nigel Farage in No 10?

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We asked the Reform leader about his ambition to be PM.After their rapid rise and shock success in the general election, Reform UK is getting serious....

Is net zero worth losing jobs over?

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

And Boris Johnson gives us his views on the assisted dying bill with 48 hours to go...After nearly 120 years of service, the car company Vauxhall is p...

What is Project 2025 and does Trump believe in it?

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kamal and Camilla speak to the man behind the controversial document: Kevin Roberts.President-elect Donald Trump spent much of his campaign distancing...

Why have 2 million people signed a petition for another election?

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Days before Parliament votes on the controversial assisted dying bill, the Government itself is divided. That’s despite being told to remain neutral...

Why Trump won't end the Ukraine-Russia war "in 24 hours"

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A special episode after 1000 days of war.It’s been a turbulent week for Ukraine, which was finally given approval to use US and UK-supplied long ran...

Keir Starmer's failure? He doesn't have a John Prescott

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why the death of the former deputy prime minister matters more to Labour now than they realiseOne of the key figures of the New Labour government John...

Is it time to ban social media for under 16s?

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Labour tell big tech firms to get a grip on harmful online content, or they could ban platforms for children altogether...On the front page of today’...

Starmer the farmer harmer: Inside the protest that's rocked the Government

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy Clarkson and Nigel Farage joined the rally.Rachel Reeves’ Budget has backfired spectacularly, with thousands of farmers protesting in central...

Is Joe Biden threatening World War Three?

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Allowing Ukraine to strike targets in Russia with US-supplied missiles has enraged the KremlinKamal and Gordon Rayner are joined by Ukraine: The Lates...