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Are judges fuelling Britain’s migration crisis?

12 Feb 2025

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Millions love Jordan Peterson. His next project? God

15 Nov 2024

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Tim sat down with the controversial Canadian psychologist.Jordan Peterson, best known for the self-help book 12 Rules for Life, has become a guru to m...

Are the police attacking our free speech?

14 Nov 2024

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The police are investigating The Telegraph's Allison Pearson for a social media post despite everyday crime going largely unsolved.Essex Police chose ...

You're hired: Why Trump has given Elon Musk a top job

13 Nov 2024

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And how Labour's Budget it threatening family firms.President-elect Donald Trump is handing out big jobs before his January inauguration and has annou...

William Hague on Justin Welby, cancel culture, and why he wants to run Oxford

12 Nov 2024

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The Archbishop of Canterbury has resigned - the former Conservative Party leader reacts in real time.William Hague, former Tory leader and foreign sec...

Will the Archbishop of Canterbury have to resign?

11 Nov 2024

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Justin Welby is facing growing calls to resign after a report found the Church of England covered up “abhorrent” abuse.The review said Archbishop ...

Kemi Badenoch's biggest backer reviews her first week

08 Nov 2024

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And Trump will leave NATO, says his former national security adviser.Kemi Badenoch has completed her first week as Leader of the Opposition. Kamal and...

Starmer's Trump problem: Is the special relationship dead?

07 Nov 2024

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Donald Trump's win puts Keir Starmer and Labour in an awkward position.The PM leads a party that has described Donald Trump as racist, misogynistic an...

How Trump won and what it means for the world

06 Nov 2024

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Reaction from Washington DC on a night of drama as Trump takes back The White House.ItIt is a stunning victory that will go down in history. Only the ...

Trump surges towards Presidential win

06 Nov 2024

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It looks as if Donald Trump is very close to victory in the US election, as he defied a major poll and won the state of Iowa after picking up a wave o...

US Election: Inside the final Trump rally

05 Nov 2024

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It’s polling day in America and the candidates have made their final pleas to the public, with both choosing the vital swing state of Pennsylvania t...

A new shock poll - is it over for Trump?

04 Nov 2024

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The idea that Kamala Harris is ahead in Republican stronghold Iowa has America reeling - but how much can we read into it?With just twenty-four hours ...

Kemi Badenoch is the new Conservative leader

02 Nov 2024

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Live reaction from the result announcement in central London.Kemi Badenoch has secured a resounding victory in the Conservative leadership election, d...

The US pollster who says an election landslide is still possible

01 Nov 2024

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And lessons from cycling 4000 miles across America.All the polls put next week’s US presidential election on a knife edge. But Republican pollster K...

Budget: who are the biggest losers?

31 Oct 2024

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Don’t be a worker, don’t have a pension, and certainly don’t be a farmer. The dust has settled after yesterday’s Budget and we’re focusing o...

Will Labour's Budget derail the economy?

30 Oct 2024

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It was Labour’s first Budget in 14 years and they’re back to their old playbook: tax rises and big borrowing, despite promising to deliver economi...

Your guide to the seven states that will decide the US election

29 Oct 2024

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From the states to watch to the stats to know, this is your ultimate audio guide to the US election.Kamal and Gordon Rayner are joined by US Editor To...

Exclusive: Jeremy Hunt on the Budget and his OBR row

28 Oct 2024

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Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt joins Kamal and Gordon Rayner in the Daily T studio for an exclusive sit-down interview.He calls this week’s upcoming ...

Should Britain pay slavery reparations?

25 Oct 2024

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Kamal and Camilla are joined for a forceful but intelligent debate by pro-reparations journalist and descendant of slave owners Laura Trevelyan and an...

Is Harris right to call Trump a fascist?

24 Oct 2024

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Kamala Harris has called Donald Trump a fascist. But is he?Kamala Harris has used the “f-word” about Donald Trump for the first time - calling the...

Is Labour interfering in the US Election?

23 Oct 2024

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A major diplomatic row as Donald Trump files a legal complaint accusing Labour of "blatant" election interference.It started with an innocuous LinkedI...

Exclusive: An armed officer cleared of murder on why all police should have guns

22 Oct 2024

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Aside from Martyn Blake, only three other armed police officers have stood trial for murder. We speak to one of them.The news of firearms officer Mart...

Chris Kaba: Why the officer that shot him has been cleared of murder

21 Oct 2024

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The Met Police officer who shot dead Chris Kaba has been cleared of murder. Armed officer Martyn Blake fired a single shot through the windscreen of K...

US Election: Everything you need to know two weeks out

18 Oct 2024

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It's just over two weeks to go until America decides - Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?With the polls tantalisingly close to opening, this election is s...

Liam Payne and the dark side of fame

17 Oct 2024

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With the American showbiz website TMZ deciding to post a picture of his body - does that decision say everything about the toxic environment social me...

Is opposing assisted dying immoral?

16 Oct 2024

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Proposals to give terminally ill people in England and Wales the right to choose to end their lives were introduced in Parliament today, with strong o...

Will weight loss jabs get Britain working?

15 Oct 2024

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And how the Amish could decide the US election.Britain is in the grip of a worklessness epidemic with a quarter of people of working-age – nearly 11...

Why can’t Britain build anything?

14 Oct 2024

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It’s the day of the big UK investment summit in London and Sir Keir Starmer has been pressing the flesh with bankers, hedge fund managers and tech b...

What it's like to be cancelled

11 Oct 2024

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Father Ted creator Graham Linehan and poet Jenny Lindsay on losing their livelihoods.What’s it like to be cancelled? And is there a light at the end...

Is Labour dragging us back to the 1970s?

10 Oct 2024

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Labour unveil their new deal for workers and massive tax rises could be on the way - it all feels a bit 1970s. Plus we go behind the scenes at Robert ...

Jenrick v Badenoch - who can beat Starmer?

09 Oct 2024

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A shock result in the Tory leadership contest as James Cleverly is knocked out!Camilla and Kamal bring you the latest from the Tory leadership race af...

Another Tom bites the dust: Tugendhat out of the race

08 Oct 2024

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Kamal and Camilla bring you up to speed with the Tory leadership race after Tom Tugendhat was knocked out this afternoon.Tom Tugendhat has been elimin...

Is this the worst ever start to a new government?

07 Oct 2024

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The Prime Minister's chief of staff gets the boot - why has she gone and where does it leave this ailing Labour government?Sue Gray has been ousted af...

Boris Johnson: What the broken Tories should do next

04 Oct 2024

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From his reflections on the Covid lockdowns and a potential return to No.10 to his suggestion of a referendum on the ECHR, we’ll take a deep dive in...

The net zero bogeyman: Can going green be made blue?

03 Oct 2024

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It infuriates and frustrates in equal measure - electric cars, heat pumps, wind farms blighting the countryside. Is there any way to make a conservati...

Who is winning the Tory leadership war?

02 Oct 2024

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It's the final day of the Conservative conference and the four remaining leadership hopefuls have been making their big pitches to the members.Kamal i...

Conflict in Middle East and Jacob Rees-Mogg on Reform

01 Oct 2024

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On the second day of the Conservative conference in Birmingham, former Cabinet Minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg joins Kamal and Tim to talk about taking R...

Infighting, immigration and Truss: Day one at Tory conference

30 Sep 2024

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It's day one of the Conservative Party Conference and we hear from Liz Truss, James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick and Sir Graham Brady...The Tory conferenc...

Charles Moore on Tory leadership, Thatcher and the future of the Right

27 Sep 2024

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The former Telegraph and Spectator Editor Charles Moore is in the studio with Camilla to discuss the future of conservatism ahead of the Conservative ...