'Stuffing Government with paedophile apologists': Starmer in fresh vetting crisis
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Sir Keir Starmer is facing yet another crisis over his poor judgment after it emerged that he nominated his former spin doctor, linked to the convicted paedophile Sean Morton, to the House of Lords.
Kemi Badenoch skewered the Prime Minister in the Commons over Lord Doyle’s appointment, accusing him of “stuffing Government with hypocrites and paedophile apologists”.
Tim and Camilla review a disastrous PMQs for Sir Keir and question his latest distraction tactic of playing up his “working class” background.
Meanwhile, Sarah Pochin, the Reform UK MP, was banned from speaking at Bangor University, whose debating society accused her of racism, transphobia, and homophobia.
She tells Camilla the decision goes against free speech, and also weighs in on Nigel Farage’s latest attack on working from home.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.6 | How dare he criticize us? |
| 0:12.2 | We want the ones stuffing government with hypocrites and paedophile apologists. |
| 0:16.9 | He can't build a team, Mr Speaker. |
| 0:19.4 | He has no plan. |
| 0:23.5 | He can't even run his own office, let alone the country. |
| 0:27.6 | That's Kemi Batenox's damning verdict at this week's PMQs. |
| 0:35.1 | Has Kirstarmer's Week from Hell just got even worse with the new revelations about his former head of comms, Matthew Doyle? |
| 0:38.5 | And the reform party's Sarah Pochin joins us, |
| 0:40.8 | having just been banned from a debate by the Debating Society of Bangor University. |
| 0:44.1 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tomini. |
| 0:46.6 | And me, Tim Stanley. I regret to inform you that Keir has decided that Keir should be Keir. |
| 1:02.2 | Oh dear. |
| 1:02.9 | It raises the question of who he was before. |
| 1:05.2 | Norman Wisdom, the Duchess of Malfi. |
| 1:07.5 | We don't know. |
| 1:08.6 | But now we are seeing the real Keirirstama, who turns out to be a man |
| 1:13.7 | whose father was a toolmaker. Really? My God. He should have told us this sooner. I know. I wish I'd |
| 1:20.1 | known that. He turns out to be a class warrior who is both angry and vitupratif. |
| 1:30.4 | Please translate vituperative. |
| 1:33.9 | Well, whereas before he just got beat up at Prime Minister's questions, |
| 1:36.7 | now he's trying to land some blows himself. |
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