Starmer vs Trump: King's bid to save the special relationship
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer and Donald Trump have finally spoken after the president hurled a string of insults at the Prime Minister over his inaction on the Iran war.
But is the special relationship now irreparably damaged? Camilla and Tim react to suggestions that the King’s state visit should be cancelled and explain how decades of divesting from defence have made us even more reliant on our friends across the pond.
Meanwhile, Trump has said that soaring oil prices, which have hit $118 a barrel for the first time since 2022, are “a small price to pay” for world peace. We’re joined by Tyler Goodspeed, the president’s former economic adviser, to understand what the war means for the cost of filling your tank.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph |
| 0:02.0 | Ring Ring, Kirstama has spoken with the President in a desperate bid to save the special relationship. |
| 0:16.0 | But as the damage already been done, and what does it mean for the King's imminent state visit to Washington? |
| 0:22.9 | And Donald Trump insists the rising cost of oil is a small price to pay for his action in Iran, |
| 0:28.8 | but is the US president in danger of crashing the global economy? |
| 0:33.1 | We speak to the president's former economic advisor, Tyler Goodspeed, |
| 0:36.7 | who tells us that Britain's |
| 0:37.7 | refusal to drill in the North Sea is completely self-harming. Welcome to the Daily Tea with me, |
| 0:43.8 | Camilla Tominy. And me, Tim Stanley. How's the war going, Camilla? |
| 0:57.6 | Well, it seems to be going swimmingly well. |
| 0:59.4 | I've already had this from you downstairs. |
| 1:01.3 | I don't need... |
| 1:02.2 | You can say to me again what you said to me earlier. |
| 1:05.2 | You wanted it. |
| 1:07.3 | Look at him. |
| 1:08.5 | It's like someone when their wife buys a puppy. |
| 1:12.5 | You wanted him. Well, I did want the removal of the Ayatollah and support for the good, strong, brave Iranian people. |
| 1:18.1 | You got that. You got a whole new Ayatollah. I wasn't like you hiding in a cupboard going, oh no, I know. We can't have a repeat of 2003, even though it's nothing like it. Can we, however, as we are now adopting this, we need to actually reverse ferret |
| 1:30.4 | because if we're going to try and imagine what that phone call was like last night between |
| 1:34.9 | Trump and Stama, you're going to have to play the role of the hawk because you're better |
| 1:39.4 | doing Trump and I'm going to have to play the role of the dove. |
| 1:43.0 | How do we think it went? |
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