Starmer goes AWOL as Trump threatens to wipe out Iran
The Daily T
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Where the hell is Sir Keir Starmer? The Prime Minister has stayed out of the spotlight as the Middle East crisis escalates, holidaying while Donald Trump threatens to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age”.
Camilla and Tim debate whether the PM’s absence during such a critical moment is leadership or negligence. They also break down Trump’s Easter weekend spectacle with a giant bunny and his expletive-laden posts on Iran.
And as Kanye West, the US rapper, is blocked from entering the UK after his controversial booking to headline Wireless Festival this summer, they ask whether the festival organisers were right to give West a “second chance” after his anti-Semitic comments which he has blamed on his bipolar disorder.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.0 | Where is Kier Stama? |
| 0:12.0 | President Donald Trump has threatened to bomb Iran into the Stone Age if they don't reopen the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:18.0 | Meanwhile, our own Prime Minister is nowhere to be seen. |
| 0:21.9 | And the Wireless Festival has been cancelled after its headline act, |
| 0:26.1 | Kanye West, was banned from entering the UK for his previous anti-Semitic remarks. |
| 0:32.1 | But is this really the best way to deal with anti-Jewish hatred in the UK? |
| 0:36.7 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tomini. |
| 0:39.4 | And me, Tim Stan. |
| 0:57.0 | Camilla, how was your Easter? I feel like I've been resurrected on this podcast in the post-Easter period. I spent a lot of time gardening and then I did this thing where I had a brush, like a kind of like a long tooth brush, a cleaning brush, which I bought on the back of an Instagram reel. |
| 1:08.0 | Right. |
| 1:09.0 | Someone had one, maybe Mrs. Hinch. And I got this brush and I dipped it in some bicarbonate of soda and then I dipped it in some |
| 1:16.0 | fairy liquid. |
| 1:17.1 | And I thought, I wonder what this will do to the grouting on my flooring. |
| 1:20.7 | Yes. |
| 1:21.4 | And I started and about seven hours later I finished. |
| 1:26.5 | And I was like, why I was on my hands and knees cleaning this grout? |
| 1:31.7 | Once you start, of course, you can't really stop. |
| 1:34.6 | Okay, well, if you're free next weekend, you can come and do my bathroom. |
| 1:37.1 | Because the walls have turned orange over time. |
| 1:39.5 | Oh, God. |
| 1:39.9 | I don't know why. |
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