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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 the two-child benefit cap and offer bigger tax breaks for married couples, in a direct pitch to working-class families. Speaking in central London, Farage claimed support for Labour is “collapsing” and challenged Sir Keir Starmer to a head-to-head debate in a northern working men’s club.  Kamal and Cleo were at the event to bring us the mood in the room and dissect what Farage’s game play means for both Labour and the Tories. Plus, we’re joined in the studio by shadow chancellor Mel Stride who says Farage’s plans are “fantasy economics” that could put our economy at risk. We want to hear from you! Email us at TheDailyT@telegraph.co.uk or find @DailyTpodcast on X, Instagram and TikTok. Producers: Georgia Coan and Lilian Fawcett Senior Producer: John Cadigan Planning Editor: Venetia Rainey Executive Producer: Louisa Wells Video Editor: Andy Mackenzie Studio Operator: Meghan Searle Editor: Camilla Tominey ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

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 US president, Kamal speaks to psychologist, author and vocal Trump critic Mary Trump, whose father Freddie was Donald’s older brother. She shares revealing insights into the Trump family dynamic, describing a toxic, misogynistic environment where “cruelty was currency” - context she says is key to understanding the 47th president. Later, Mary Trump addresses Kamala Harris’s catastrophic loss in the 2024 US presidential election: Joe Biden’s health, the fallout from that chaotic debate, and how the Democratic Party can win again. Producers: Lilian Fawcett Senior Producer: John Cadigan Planning Editor: Venetia Rainey Executive Producer: Louisa Wells Video Editor: Andy Mackenzie Studio Operator: Meghan Searle Editor: Camilla Tominey Production assistance from Fran DiFazio ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

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 remarkable last decade of American politics, as he helped Trump beat Hillary Clinton, watched on as he lost to Joe Biden in 2020, and then became a crucial part of his 2024 re-election campaign. Camilla talks to Miller about how he’s survived so long in the volatile Trump-orbit, the strategy behind the president's Oval Office confrontations with world leaders, and why his boss is “absolutely a genius”. Having just got off the phone to the president as he arrived at the studio, there are very few people who know Trump better. Producers: Lilian Fawcett Senior Producer: John Cadigan Planning Editor: Venetia Rainey Executive Producer: Louisa Wells Video Editor: Andy Mackenzie Studio Operator: Meghan Searle Editor: Camilla Tominey ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Inflation has risen to 3.5%, putting fresh pressure on the Bank of England and on households already feeling the squeeze [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/21/labour-has-unleashed-a-new-wave-of-inflation-on-households/]. But that’s not the only storm brewing for the Labour Party. A leaked memo from Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner to Chancellor Rachel Reeves has exposed a growing rift at the top of the Labour Party [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/05/20/angela-rayner-demands-tax-raid-savers-rachel-reeves/].  In an exclusive report, our political editor Ben Riley-Smith reveals how the two are at odds over tax hikes on savers and investors and what the row means for Labour’s economic credibility ahead of the next election. And we speak to Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, about the state of policing and our justice system right now - from Lucy Connolly’s prison sentence [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/20/exclusive-lucy-connolly-interview-judges-cruel/] to Southport victim Leanne Lucas calling for sharp bladed kitchen knives to be banned [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/21/southport-teacher-leanne-lucas-pointed-knife-ban-campaign/].  Producers: Georgia Coan and Lilian Fawcett Senior Producer: John Cadigan Planning Editor: Venetia Rainey Executive Producer: Louisa Wells Social Media Producer: Ji-Min Lee Video Editor: Valerie Browne Studio Operator: Meghan Searle Editor: Camilla Tominey ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Twenty-four hours after Keir Starmer announced a shift on fishing rights and closer alignment with the EU [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/19/starmers-brexit-reset-deal-read-the-full-text/], the backlash has been fierce.  Reform are already expecting to take seats from Labour in the next General Election thanks to the Brexit “reset” deal, with deputy leader Richard Tice accusing Starmer of having “surrendered the fishing industry” to the EU. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/05/20/politics-latest-news-starmer-brexit-eu-deal-badenoch-farage/] On today’s episode, Camilla and Kamal unpack the fallout from the Prime Minister’s big “reset” and discuss the key moments from both his statement in Parliament and leader of the opposition Kemi Badenoch’s fiery response as the Tories slip to fourth place behind Labour, Reform and the Lib Dems in a major poll [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/05/20/tories-fourth-place-yougov-poll-six-years-reform-labour/].  And it was one of Britain’s biggest medical scandals. Thousands were infected with HIV and hepatitis through contaminated blood products in the 70s and 80s, including children at a specialist school called Treloar’s. Camilla speaks to Richard Warwick, a survivor, and journalist and author Cara McGoogan ahead of a new ITV documentary on the scandal and why survivors still haven’t had their compensation. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/05/infected-blood-victims-could-die-before-getting-payouts/] Producers: Georgia Coan Senior Producer: John Cadigan Planning Editor: Venetia Rainey Executive Producer: Louisa Wells Social Media Producer: Ji-Min Lee Video Editor: Valerie Browne Studio Operator: Meghan Searle Editor: Camilla Tominey Original music by Goss Studio ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.