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The first female general secretary of the Unite union is clear about her priorities: “jobs, pay, and conditions”. She is also convinced that Labour is failing to improve all three.

Unite is one of the party’s biggest financial and political backers, but Sharon Graham says Labour has strayed from its working class roots. Now she is threatening to pull the union’s funding for the party entirely.

In a wide-ranging interview, she...

The Manchester mayor is on manoeuvres: Andy Burnham told the Telegraph that several Labour MPs have called on him to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership.

Tim and Camilla speak to Tony Diver, the journalist who got the scoop, to ask if Burnham could actually pull it off and about his history as a political chameleon, having served Blair, Brown and Corbyn.

Meanwhile, is another embarrassing resignation in the pipel...

Among the claims Donald Trump made in his blistering UN speech was that Sadiq Khan is “terrible” and “they want to go to sharia law”.

The London mayor has called the comments “Islamophobic”, but are there legitimate concerns to be had about the "shadow system" of approximately 85 sharia courts operating in the UK?

Camilla and Tim speak to Fiyaz Mughal, founder of anti-Muslim monitoring project Tell MAMA, about how sharia cour...

After decades of gaffes and scandals, often involving her ex-husband Prince Andrew, it seemed Sarah Ferguson was on the path to royal redemption.

That is until a series of her emails to Jeffrey Epstein were leaked, in which she called the convicted paedophile a “supreme friend”.

Camilla and Tim are joined by royal biographer Andrew Lownie to react to the revelations about Fergie, who has been dropped as a patron by numerous c...

Reform UK says it will deport hundreds of thousands of legal migrants if elected to government.

Nigel Farage has set out plans to scrap indefinite leave to remain, ban migrants from ever accessing benefits or the NHS, and raise the language and salary requirements for all foreign nationals.

Camilla caught up with the Reform leader to ask if the proposals are a “two-fingered salute” to business and if they risk alienating mode...

In an exclusive interview with The Daily T podcast, Dame Penny Mordaunt opens up about losing her Portsmouth North seat at the 2024 General Election - and why she blames Rishi Sunak’s D-Day blunder for the defeat.

The former Conservative leadership contender reflects on the Torie's time in power, her viral moment after carrying a sword during the Coronation and why she worked as a magician's assistant at uni.

She also discus...

Earlier today, President Donald Trump joined Sir Keir Starmer for a press conference at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country house.

Camilla Tominey and Rob Crilly give their thoughts on the press conference in which Trump urged Starmer to ‘drill, baby, drill’ in the North Sea to cut energy bills and use the military to stop the boats. The leaders also spoke about the current conflicts, with Trump saying Putin had let him down ...

Donald Trump has spent the day at Windsor Castle as he undertakes the first day of his unprecedented second state visit to Britain.

Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley were on the ground watching events unfold as the President touched down in his helicopter - ‘Marine One’ - at lunchtime, before taking a tour of the grounds at Windsor alongside the King and Queen.

The Daily Telegraph’s Royal Editor Hannah Furness had unpreced...

Sir Keir Starmer is facing mounting pressure in Parliament over his handling of Lord Mandelson’s resignation as US ambassador. 

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has accused Starmer and his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney of having “forced through” Mandelson’s appointment, despite warnings, with the party demanding the release of the so-called “Mandelson-Epstein files”.

Camilla and Tim ask if the controversy is at risk of oversh...

Danny Kruger, the Conservative MP for East Wiltshire and shadow work and pensions minister, has defected to Reform - becoming the first sitting Tory MP to do so and the most high-profile to date.

Declaring that the Conservatives are “over’, Danny Kruger was unveiled by Nigel Farage at a press conference this lunchtime, dealing a huge blow to Kemi Badenoch’s efforts to rebuild the party. 

Camilla and Tim ask how...

He held almost every Cabinet position during his two decades as an MP, perhaps most notably as a reformist education secretary. He also had a very public falling out with his old pals David Cameron and Boris Johnson.

Now Michael Gove has returned to his roots as a journalist, taking on the editorship of The Spectator and launching a new podcast, Quite Right.

Lord Gove talks to Camilla and Tim about why he broke up with B...

In an entirely predictable turn of events, just twenty four hours after publicly backing the US Ambassador, Keir Starmer has now sacked Peter Mandelson after "additional information" came to light about the nature of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Whilst it could, and perhaps should, mean that Mandelson's long political career has been brought to an end, it also reflects just as badly on the Prime Minister's judg...

It's shaping up to be Keir Starmer's worst week since...last week. 

The PM is facing calls to sack US Ambassador Lord Mandelson after new revelations about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Camilla and Tim speak to Robert Mendick, the Telegraph journalist behind some of the most damning reports, including that Mandelson worked with Epstein on a £1bn business deal even after his conviction for child sex offences.

They also ...

The Tories are the only party that can be trusted on the economy, not Labour or Reform, Kemi Badenoch said today. But is anyone listening?

After a speech in which she offered to work with Keir Starmer on welfare reform, Camilla and Tim ask the Conservative leader if there is really any substance to her plans.

Plus, the deputy Labour leadership election has rapidly descended into a battle of identity politics. But which of the...

Labour is in disarray since Angela Rayner’s resignation, even as the Prime Minister tries to seize back the narrative by reshuffling his Cabinet. Tim and Camilla are joined by Jacob Rees-Mogg to assess the refreshed front bench.

Meanwhile Keir Starmer is being held to ransom by the unions, with striking Tube drivers demanding fewer hours for the same pay. Rees-Mogg says: “fire the lot of them”.

Plus, the BBC’s director genera...

Angela Rayner has finally resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary, after days of ever-increasing pressure over the underpaying of stamp duty on the purchase of a second home in Hove.

Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley bring you today’s Daily T from Reform UK’s party conference in Birmingham, where they spoke to deputy leader Richard Tice, Reform’s newest MP Sarah Pochin, and supporter and comedian Jim Davidson, as t...

Angela Rayner is hanging on to her job by a thread. As fresh details emerged in The Daily Telegraph about how she used NHS compensation to fund the purchase of her second home, senior Labour figures looked to be distancing themselves from the Deputy Prime Minister.

Rachel Reeves made a point of telling broadcasters it is “on all of us” to understand tax rules, before No 10 refused to guarantee she would still be in post by the n...

Angela Rayner has referred herself to the government’s ethics adviser after admitting to underpaying tax on her second home, casting serious doubt on her future.

Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary, gave a tearful interview to Sky News this lunchtime in which she said she had considered resigning following days of ever-mounting questions over an unpaid £40,000 stamp duty bill on her second home in Hove.

In...

The British countryside is “overwhelmingly white” and needs more halal food, a report has claimed.

Camilla and Tim ask Corinne Fowler, one of the co-authors, about the claim that ethnic minority people experience a “psychological burden” from “navigating predominantly white spaces” in rural Britain.

They are also joined by Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, aka The Black Farmer, who says expecting urban habits and ideas in the coun...