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The Daily T

Starmer's embarrassing warship scramble as Iran war spirals

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Sir Keir Starmer has been forced into an embarrassing scramble to send a warship to Cyprus, after France announced a major deployment to Mediterranean.


Camilla and Tim speak to Labour MP Emily Thornberry, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, who has called the US-Israel strikes on Iran illegal – and tells The Daily T, “you can't attack a country because you don’t like it and because you want it to be different.”


Meanwhile, the Chancellor has delivered her Spring Statement, in which she took the opportunity to re-run some of Labour’s most tired attack lines. Tim and Camilla are joined by shadow chancellor Mel Stride and his former party colleague, Reform’s Robert Jenrick, to unpack how Rachel Reeve's rosy-sounding figures are hiding a much darker economic picture.


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0:00.0

The Telegraph.

0:09.1

Iran War is spreading out of control.

0:12.2

We're on College Green where we've just heard the spring statement, but we're going to

0:15.6

be interrogating politicians about what should be done to bring stability to the Middle

0:19.6

East.

0:20.1

We're going to be speaking to Emily Thornbury, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Select East. We're going to be speaking to Emily Thornbury,

0:21.8

the chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.

0:24.0

We're going to be speaking to the shadow chancellor Mel Stride

0:26.4

and the man who claims to be shadow chancellor, Robert Jenrick of Reform.

0:31.0

Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Tim Stanley.

0:33.0

And me, Camilla Tomony.

0:48.7

Tim, we're on College Green. It's a bit noisy because they've been renovating the houses of Parliament for the last four hundred and six years and there's still 300 years

0:53.2

to go. So we'll cope with that. You've been in the chamber

0:56.6

for the spring statement, which is a bit of a damp squid with everything going on. This is going to be

1:00.9

a podcast of two halves because we need to address the Iranian issue, but also reflect the fact

1:07.3

that the Chancellor has given a fairly significant statement in the House,

1:11.2

which you thought she performed quite well in, right?

1:13.7

She did okay, yeah, but let's attack Iran first.

1:17.2

Okay, fine.

1:18.2

So the latest is that we have Donald Trump going even further than he went with Connor

1:24.7

Stringer, our telegraph colleague, in saying that Kirste Armour

1:27.9

was a disappointment yesterday, doubled down in an interview with the son's Harry Cole,

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