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With just two weeks until Rachel Reeves’ spending review, there are calls from across the Labour frontbench for more cash — just as the Chancellor needs to tighten the purse strings. But perhaps the most striking intervention comes from the UK's top police chiefs — including Sir Mark Rowley — who today warned that the Government's crime targets will suffer if funding is slashed. This comes despite a £3bn increase in funding and 20,000 new officers since 2016. Can Rachel Reeves balance economic control with growing spending demands from her own party? And does she risk being outflanked by Nigel Farage's Reform UK? Elsewhere, away from Westminster, King Charles is in Canada at the state opening of parliament — and did he make a not-so-subtle dig at Donald Trump’s ambitions to annex his northerly neighbours? We want to hear from you! Email us at TheDailyT@telegraph.co.uk or find @DailyTpodcast on X, Instagram and TikTok. Producers: Lilian Fawcett and Georgia Coan Senior Producer: John Cadigan Planning Editor: Venetia Rainey Executive Producer: Louisa Wells Social Media Producer: Ruby Borg Video Editor: Andy Mackenzie Studio Operator: Meghan Searle Original music by Goss Studio ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

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.