Badenoch: Starmer's finished and Polanski's a joke – we're the only serious choice
The Daily T
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4.1 • 706 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
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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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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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:05.0 | We're in Bromley where Kemi Bajnock is fighting for the Tories political lives in what was once a very safe conservative seat. |
| 0:18.0 | We talked to the leader of the opposition about the madness of Zach Polansky, her debate with pro-Palestinian activists and who would she rather face if |
| 0:26.0 | Kirstama loses his job. And we're also joined by the rabbi Doron Bernbaum, who went viral |
| 0:31.7 | with his extremely emotional reaction to the attacks in Golders Green. Welcome to the Daily Tea |
| 0:37.4 | with me Tim Stanley. |
| 0:38.4 | And me, Camilla Tominy. |
| 0:52.0 | Tim, we've inadvertently found ourselves back on the road. Hey. And we? Yay! And we're in your manner, aren't we? We are. We're close enough. It's very confusing. We're in Orpington, which is part of the Bromley Council. And it parades itself as Kent, but really at South East London. Yeah, and you haven't got great memories of this area, have you? No, I was once |
| 1:10.9 | kidnapped in Bromley. What? It's actually true. I was 18 years old and I was on Bromley South |
| 1:15.8 | train station and someone mugged me and I probably looked rich. He wasn't to know. Well, he wasn't |
| 1:23.2 | no, no, I wasn't. I was dressed like an Edwardian, like an Edwardian prince as always. Little was he to know that those clothes were from Oxfam. Yes. And he obviously demanded everything in my pockets, and he sort of got 50 pence and a piece of chewing gum. So he said, right, you're coming with me. And he marched me out of the station, past the rail guards. With a knife. I've never forgotten that. Well, he said he had a knife and I being young believed him. So I followed him to a cash machine. Right. Where he told me... I don't know why I'm laughing. This is actually quite scary. No, it is funny. He told me to withdraw £200, which is the limit. And I said, I haven't got 200 pounds. And he said, |
| 2:02.6 | he didn't believe me and said, withdraw 200. So I put it in and tried to withdraw it. And I said, |
| 2:07.9 | it says transaction cannot be processed, funds not available. And he said, what does that mean? |
| 2:13.6 | And I said, it means you've picked the wrong person. So he got 50 quid out of me. Did he? And then the very strange thing is, it's almost an act of kindness. He walked me back to the train station. I think he was worried that I might... I think he was worried that I might fall in with a bad crowd or something or get mugged by someone else. Is this technically kidnapping or are you being living? |
| 2:35.0 | Well, when I took this, no, no, no. When I took this to the police, who never caught him, of course, they said technically you were kidnapped because you were taken by force to somewhere you didn't wish to be and held there. And you had to hand over money at the end. And I had to hand over money. I don't believe he ever got caught, but if he did get caught and he got, let's say, five years, then five years for £5.50 and a piece of chewing gum, crime doesn't pay. Crime doesn't pay. It's not worth it. No, it isn't. Stay in school. Well, we're here in a field that is slightly reminiscent of Theresa May's wildest dreams. She could run through here with great abandonment. It's not wheat, it's oil seed |
| 3:07.8 | rape. It looks cider with Rosie, but behind the camera, it's suburban scraw. And that is because, as is ever the case with all politicians right now, they're on a street in England, knocking on doors, trying to get people to vote for them. So we spoke to... Kellingman, there's a local election, because they won't know. Nobody cares. Also, we don't see any leaflets or any board? |
| 3:25.4 | That's a very good point. |
| 3:26.5 | You would not know there was an election. What are they playing at the yellows? Earlier we spoke to Kemi Badnock. Conservative Party leader Kemi Badnock. We're in a field in Orpington, which is in the London borough of Bromley, should you really be here on the day before the local elections? |
| 3:42.6 | You don't need to campaign here. |
| 3:43.7 | This is meant to be a safe Tory seat. |
| 3:46.2 | We are not complacent. |
| 3:47.9 | And in this era of multi-party politics, |
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