Comrade Keir? Starmer’s Soviet agenda laid bare at PMQs
The Daily T
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4.1 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
After a tumultuous two weeks for the Prime Minister, not even an Arsenal Premier League win could turn things around for Sir Keir Starmer ahead of his first PMQs since Labour’s devastating local election results.
On Wednesday’s Daily T podcast, Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley delve into the fiery exchange in the Commons as Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party leader, said his approach to foreign and economic policy was “like the Soviets won”.
Camilla and Tim also look at the Green Party’s newest MP Hannah Spencer’s first question in the Commons, where she criticised her colleagues for “drinking on the job”, and the conveniently planted question for Starmer regarding Reform leader Nigel Farage’s £5m donation from a cryptocurrency billionaire.
Meanwhile, Wes Streeting gave his resignation speech in Parliament, warning that the Prime Minister’s failures will put Farage in power.
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Highlights
- Kemi Badenoch slams Starmer in PMQs, saying PM is ‘hanging on by a thread’
- Starmer eases Russian oil sanctions, drawing fire over betrayal of Ukraine
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:05.0 | Has this become a government of calamity communists? |
| 0:13.0 | That was the Vi but the first PMQ's since Keir Stama's life fell apart. |
| 0:18.0 | Kemi Bainok made three complaints. |
| 0:25.0 | Why is the Labour government nationalising steel, importing Russian oil, |
| 0:29.0 | and trying to force supermarkets to impose price controls? |
| 0:31.3 | Welcome to the Daily Tea with me, Tim Stanley. |
| 0:32.6 | And me, Camilla Tomini. Thank you. Tim, you've had a trying morning. |
| 0:46.8 | Yes, I had to go to the US Embassy to apply for a visa. |
| 0:50.3 | So, because I live miles away in the wilds of Kent, I had... |
| 0:53.3 | It's not that far away. It's half an hour by train. Yeah, I had to get up super early anyway. Of course the trains didn't work because of a point's failure. So, of course, I had to run to the embassy. Of course, I went into the wrong queue. Yes. And was then told to join another one. Having done that, of course, I discovered, you're not allowed to bring a laptop in. So I was sent to a cafe and then had to rejoin the queue. And then when I finally get in there with a bad knee, of course, there are no seats to sit on. No, they're just standing. For two and a half hours. It was a nightmare. And you didn't have the right paperwork. Well, the night before I realized I didn't have the right paperwork. So I wanted to print something off. I went to my mother's house and used her printer. Do you not have a printer, Tim? I don't own a printer because they're too bulky. They're too bulky. So I went to my mother's house, I used her printer, and she was so low on ink, the pages just came out, completely blank. |
| 1:44.7 | Oh, not even like yellow? |
| 1:46.4 | No, just completely blank. |
| 1:47.9 | So I then had to go to a friend's house and I showed up in my pyjamas in the middle of the night. |
| 1:52.5 | And she looked horrified. |
| 1:53.8 | What kind of pyjamas do you wear? Silk? |
| 1:55.6 | They are silken, I would say, with tigers on. |
| 2:01.2 | What? |
| 2:01.9 | Do you have a little pair of monogram slippers? |
| 2:04.5 | I think if I'd been wearing high karate, it might have looked like a desperate flirtation. |
| 2:10.4 | But it occurred to me this morning and I make it up at six. |
| 2:13.4 | I just thought, Labour's been in power for what, like a decade now? |
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