No philosophy, no beliefs, no ideas: inside Starmer’s collapsing premiership
The Daily T
The Telegraph
4.1 • 705 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer has once again refused to be commit to any kind of support for the conflict in the Middle East, even after Donald Trump promised “he will remember” the UK’s lack of action.
In a press conference this morning, Sir Keir also refused to clarify whether fuel duty would rise in September, with the conflict already sending forecourt prices through the roof.
After a weekend that saw damning extracts of a new book that paints Sir Keir as a Prime Minister in name only, with no fixed ideas, philosophy or political instinct, Camilla and Tim ask – what is the point in his premiership?
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph |
| 0:02.0 | He won't send ships to the Strait of Hormuz and he won't make a commitment on the future of fuel duty. |
| 0:15.0 | What is wrong with our Prime Minister? |
| 0:18.0 | We've always been told that whatever his politics, Kier Stama is a thoroughly decent man, |
| 0:22.8 | but a new expose suggests he not only lacks ideas |
| 0:26.3 | or a philosophy, he's not even especially nice. |
| 0:30.4 | And what has gone wrong with the Oscars? |
| 0:33.9 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tominy. |
| 0:36.4 | And me, Tim Stanley. |
| 0:47.6 | Music Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tomini. And me, Tim Stanley. Tim, the question, who is Keir Stammer, really? |
| 0:51.2 | And the answer might be, who cares? |
| 0:53.2 | Because he doesn't necessarily inspire many. |
| 0:56.3 | Although my husband sent me the extract from a new book that is doing the rounds. |
| 1:02.9 | It's been written by, okay, journalists had a rival paper, but let's just name-check them because it is a book. |
| 1:08.2 | And it is a book about Starmus Premiership, Gabriel Pogrand and Patrick Maguire over at the Times. And it was serialised in the Sunday Times. |
| 1:15.6 | And there's a particular couple of paragraphs which have sort of got people talking. And I mentioned |
| 1:21.0 | this because my husband sent it to me. My husband isn't a massive fan of the Prime Minister. |
| 1:25.9 | Let me just make that quite clear. |
| 1:29.2 | And he was sort of saying, |
| 1:31.6 | doesn't this just sum up the problem here? |
| 1:36.9 | Shall we just read out this very damning analysis of who the Prime Minister really is? |
| 1:43.4 | And it's basically suggesting he's a man with no philosophy, no fixed beliefs and no ideas. |
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