Starmer’s latest U-turn shame
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
You could be forgiven for losing count of how many screeching about-turns the Government has now made on policy.
Camilla and Tim discuss the newest addition to that long list: digital ID cards, which Kemi Badenoch skewered Keir Starmer on at PMQs.
Meanwhile, West Midlands Police is in crisis after the Home Secretary announced its chief Craig Guildford no longer has her confidence, over revelations that the force used AI-generate content to justify its Maccabi Tel Aviv football fan ban.
Tory MP Nick Timothy tells Tim and Camilla that Shabana Mahmood "failed as Home Secretary" over the issue.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph |
| 0:07.0 | In his latest U-turn, the Prime Minister Kirstama has issued a U-turn saying he is not responsible for previous U-turns. |
| 0:16.0 | This follows a U-turn on digital ID. Has this government completely lost the plot? And the Home Secretary Shabana |
| 0:22.2 | Mahmoud has lost confidence in the Chief of West Midlands Police over their unjustifiable ban on Jewish vans. |
| 0:30.2 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tomini. And me Tim Stanley. |
| 0:33.3 | Thank you. At PMQ today, Kirstama did a U-turn about whether or not he does U-turns. |
| 0:50.7 | Because he said, I don't do U-turns. |
| 0:53.5 | What I am doing is turning this country around. |
| 0:56.8 | Oh no. |
| 0:57.8 | That's the definition of a U-turn. |
| 1:00.6 | I know, it's weird, isn't it? |
| 1:01.5 | Because one imagines that Stama, in adherence with the rules, |
| 1:04.4 | he passed his theory test first time. |
| 1:06.8 | Yes. |
| 1:07.1 | Wood drive like Miss Daisy. |
| 1:09.0 | In fact, he's currently resembling me on the school run, |
| 1:13.2 | screeching turns everywhere. |
| 1:15.0 | And Heidi Alexander, the Transport Secretary, |
| 1:17.4 | was on the broadcast round this morning, |
| 1:19.9 | denying that the government was responsible for a string of U-turns, |
| 1:23.7 | said it was kind of mischievous to suggest |
| 1:26.6 | that 13 U-turns did show a lack of direction. |
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