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 review Kemi Badenoch’s best PMQs yet, which saw her rake the PM over the coals on whether Mandelson was properly vetted.

Read: Epstein brokered billion-pound deal with Mandelson

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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 race leaders Emily Thornberry and Bridget Philipson would be more of a headache for the PM?

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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 general and chair are set to be grilled by MPs on Tuesday over Gaza, Glastonbury and MasterChef. Tim and Camilla speak to culture committee chair Caroline Dinenage.

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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 the news of Rayner’s resignation spread around the conference hall.

They also analyse Nigel Farage’s big speech, where he declared that Labour “are not fit to govern” and that “there is every chance now of a general election happening in 2027”. He went on to introduce the party’s latest defector - former Conservative MP and Culture Secretary, Nadine Dorries. 

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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 next general election.

Camilla and Tim look at the latest developments in Rayner’s tax scandal, and wonder whether she might resign imminently in order to overshadow tomorrow’s Reform party conference.

Elsewhere they’re joined by royal expert Valentine Low, whose new book Power and the Palace - which has been making headlines for the last week - sheds a fascinating new light on the relationship between the monarchy and Downing Street.

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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 this episode of The Daily T, Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley look at whether Rayner could or should survive, as well as just how much damage the whole sorry saga inflicts on Keir Starmer’s already badly-listing government.

They also pour over this lunchtime’s Prime Minister’s Questions, where Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch was widely criticised for choosing to focus on rising government borrowing costs rather than the story of the moment.

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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 countryside is “the height of madness”.

Plus, break out the hummus: the Green Party has a new leader. Tim went to the announcement so Camilla didn’t have to, and explains where the hard-Left party might go under former hypnotherapist Zack Polanski.

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Labour have marked the return to school with a mini-reshuffle in Downing Street, elevating a handful of ‘star pupils’ into key Government roles. 

Among them is Treasury minister Darren Jones, now promoted to Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister – a new position with a seat at the Cabinet table.

But the shake-up risks undermining Chancellor Rachel Reeves, already braced for a bruising autumn Budget and the likelihood of major tax rises. Tim and Camilla discuss the political manoeuvring inside No 10.

And as Reform UK ramp up their attacks on local government pension “waste,” Camilla speaks to Zia Yusuf, head of the party’s DOGE unit, about what they’ve uncovered and whether whispers of an early general election are true.

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After finishing his A-Levels, George Finch had planned to go to university and become a history teacher. But instead, at the age of 19, he has become the youngest council leader in the UK, running Warwickshire County Council with a budget of £2bn. 

He has already set to work taking on the ‘blob’, but will he get the results Reform needs to show they’re ready to run a country? 

Camilla and Tim joined Finch at his office in Warwick to talk flags, migrant hotels and Farage, who he calls the most influential politician in the last 30 years.

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The full transcripts of Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with Donald Trump’s deputy attorney general have been published by the Justice Department.

The move was reportedly designed to silence weeks of damaging headlines for the Trump administration - but instead it has reignited other questions surrounding the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein death and the conspiracy theories that still surround the case.

Mark Epstein, brother of Jeffrey Epstein, joins The Daily T to reveal why he believes his brother may not have taken his own life - but could have been murdered. He also discusses Epstein’s ties to President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon’s alleged Epstein documentary and how speaking out has changed his own life.

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