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After what's shaping up to be a Labour bloodbath, Camilla and Tim reflect on a nightmare set of local election results for Keir Starmer. With the Prime Minister taking the blame but refusing to step aside, they assess whether his Cabinet colleagues may well take the decision out of his hands.

As bad a night as it’s been for Labour, it’s been a great one for Reform. Camilla and Tim are joined by a jubilant Nigel Farage, who says his party’s remarkable taking back of the “red wall” is down to Starmer’s “weak and ruderless” leadership, and that Reform’s gains are down to the Labour Party of “London human rights lawyers” not connecting with ordinary people.

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Executive Producer: Charlotte Seligman
Video Producer: Will Walters
Studio Director: James England
Editor: Camilla Tominey

Highlights
What local elections Labour bloodbath means for Starmer
Farage tells The Daily T Reform has taken the red wall for good
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As the country goes to the polls in crucial local and devolved elections, The Daily T asks: Is Zack Polanski a foolish ideologue, a dangerous charlatan, or both?

Polanski recently shared a social media post criticising the police’s conduct when arresting a man suspected of stabbing two Jewish men in Golders Green. As his personal poll rating tanks, Camilla and Tim explain why Polanski’s position on anti-Semitism and the growing Islamist support for his party make him a danger to Britain.

Later, Sir John Curtice, Britain’s favourite pollster, tells The Daily T that Labour is facing its worst-ever result in London and the election of more pro-Gaza independents is “almost inevitable”.

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Executive Producer: Charlotte Seligman
Video Producer: Will Walters
Studio Director: Meghan Searle
Editor: Camilla Tominey

Highlights
Zack Polanski's hypocrisy on antisemitism revealed on polling day
Polling guru Sir John Curtice says Labour set for worst ever result in London
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On Wednesday’s Daily T podcast, Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley are in Kent to speak to Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, on the final day of campaigning before the local elections.

Mrs Badenoch tells Camilla and Tim that Zack Polanski, the Greens’ leader, is not fit for public office.She says hers is the only party standing up for the Jewish community, and that Labour and Sir Keir Starmer are too afraid of upsetting their voters to take meaningful action on anti-Semitism.

Elsewhere, Camilla and Tim are joined by Rabbi Doron Birnbaum, who went viral with his response to the knife attacks in Golders Green.

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Studio Director: Meghan Searle
Editor: Camilla Tominey

Highlights:
Kemi Badenoch tells The Daily T Zack Polanski is not fit for public office
Later, a London rabbi reacts to the Golders Green attack
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With 48 hours to go before the local and devolved elections, the verdict seems to be in already: the public hates Sir Keir Starmer and the two main parties – and many will never vote for Labour or the Conservatives again.

That is according to new polling, which also also showed an appetite for NHS reform and higher taxes on big business and the rich. Camilla and Tim are joined by Scarlett Maguire and Lee Cain, the pollsters behind the findings, to understand why the public is losing faith in politics.

Meanwhile, they discuss the state of the campaign trail, with Kemi Badenoch clashing with a pro-Palestine heckler and Zack Polanski’s poll ratings tanking after his row with the police.

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Executive Producer: Charlotte Seligman
Video Producer: Will Walters
Studio Director: Meghan Searle
Editor: Camilla Tominey

Highlights
New polling shows public disdain for Labour and Conservatives
Only one in seven will ever vote for traditional parties again
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In June 2023, the Titan submersible disaster saw a deep-sea sub vanish during a dive to the Titanic wreck, triggering a global search before it was confirmed the vessel had catastrophically imploded.

In this Daily T special, Tim Stanley and Rachel Johnson speak to Christine Dawood, who lost her husband Shahzada and her son Suleman in the disaster.

In her memoir Ninety-Six Hours, she recounts the agonising wait aboard the support vessel as the search unfolded above the wreck of the RMS Titanic sinking, and reveals the heartbreaking decision that led her to give up her own seat on the submersible to her son, who had dreamed of making the dive.

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Executive Producer: Charlotte Seligman
Video Producer: Will Walters
Studio Director: Meghan Searle
Editor: Camilla Tominey

Highlights
Christine Dawood on the agonising decision to give her Titan Sub seat to her son
She describes how she learned about the "preventable" disaster
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