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• George Finch: The teenage Reform council leader taking on the ‘blob’

  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. Senior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyVideo Editor: Will Walters and Andy MackenzieSocial Producer: James SimmonsStudio Director: Meghan SearleExecutive Producer: Charlotte Seligman Production assistance from James Keegan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Did my brother Jeffrey Epstein really kill himself?

  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.Producers: Georgia Coan and Lilian FawcettSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyVideo Editor: Andy Mackenzie Social Producer: James SimmonsStudio Director: Meghan SearleExecutive Producer: Charlotte Seligman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Is Meghan's Netflix series another 'exercise in narcissism'?

  It’s not been quite the “annus horriblis” of 2024, but the Royal family have never been far from a headline so far this year.There have been fresh allegations about the Duke of York’s private life and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in a new book by Andrew Lownie; the King and the Princess of Wales are both continuing to recover from cancer; rumours of a reconciliation with the exiled Prince Harry persist – and so does Meghan Markle’s “tone-deaf” Netflix show.Camilla is joined for a special Daily T by Royal Editor Hannah Furness and Deputy Royal Editor Victoria Ward to bring us up to speed on all of the latest Royal news.More Royal T:Prince Andrew's biographer on Fergie, Epstein and the Yorks' 'huge PR machine': https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2025/08/07/prince-andrew-lost-virginity-11-years-old-biography-claims/Grant Harrold - King's former butler on what life is really like in the Royal family:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/22/the-daily-t-kings-former-butler-life-in-royal-family/We want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] or find @dailyTpodcast on Instagram, X and TikTok.Producer: Lilian Fawcett and Georgia CoanSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyVideo Editor: Will WaltersSocial Producer: James SimmonsStudio Director: Meghan SearleExecutive Producer: Charlotte Seligman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Could a Farage government solve the small boats crisis?

  Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has unveiled a radical mass deportation plan, pledging to remove up to 600,000 migrants in his first term if he wins the next general election. Speaking at an Oxfordshire aircraft hangar, Farage called illegal migration a “national emergency” and has promised to take Britain out of the European Convention on Human Rights, repeal the Human Rights Act, and suspend the Refugee Convention for five years as the number of channel crossings rise. Camilla was at the event to hear the announcement and speaks to Deputy Leader Richard Tice and Kent County Council Leader Linden Kemkaran about the party’s hardline immigration plans and why Farage has warned of a “genuine threat to public order” if politicians fail to act.Producer: Lilian Fawcett and Georgia CoanSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyVideo Editor: Will WaltersSocial Producer: Ji-Min LeeStudio Director: Meghan SearleExecutive Producer: Charlotte Seligman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• The King's former butler on what life is really like in the Royal family

  On today’s Daily T, Grant Harrold recounts his extraordinary journey from a terraced house in North Lanarkshire to serving as butler to the then Prince of Wales at Highgrove.Harrold’s boyhood fascination with the Queen set him on a path that ended with a critical role in the inner sanctum of every day Royal life, and he tells The Daily T how a young Prince Harry dropped water bombs on him, how the Queen’s mischievous nature saw him sprinting along a corridor with her at Charles’ residence in Scotland, and how Prince Philip turned the air blue after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding in 2018.He also states his belief that, although having left the household by then, Harry and Meghan’s unflattering account of life in the Royal family “doesn’t ring right” to him.‘The Royal Butler: My remarkable life of royal service’ by Grant Harrold is published by Seven Dials on August 28 2025Producer: Georgia CoanSenior Producer: John CadiganExecutive Producer: Charlotte SeligmanPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyVideo Editor: Will WaltersStudio Director: Meghan Searle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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