Trump attacks ‘stupid’ Starmer over Chagos and China blunders
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Keir Starmer’s belief that he’s the ‘Trump Whisperer’ appears to be in tatters. Having managed to say nothing of any great substance in response to the President’s tariff threats, the Prime Minister was on the end of a brutal social media evisceration overnight - as Trump took to Truth Social to call Labour’s Chagos Islands giveaway “stupid”.
Camilla and Tim question why Starmer has allowed himself to be bullied by Trump, how today’s approving of plans for the controversial Chinese super-embassy will surely only inflame tensions further, and just why - when it’s his favourite place in the world - Sir Keir isn’t moving heaven and earth to meet the President in Davos this week.
Elsewhere, Camilla and Tim discuss Brooklyn Beckham torching relations with his own family, and ask whether he’s the victim of “Brand Beckham’s” media control, or just a spoilt nepo baby?
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:05.0 | He wanted to be the Trump whisperer, but now the President has humiliated the Prime Minister, calling Kirstehmers' policies stupid. |
| 0:17.0 | Having given away the Chegos Islands and now green-lighted the Chinese super spying embassy in London, |
| 0:24.4 | doesn't the Donald have a point? Also, Brooklyn Beckham has unleashed on his idiotic parents |
| 0:29.6 | in an Insta post that's got everyone talking. Is he really the victim of Brand Beckham and media |
| 0:35.2 | control or is he simply just a nepo brat? |
| 0:38.5 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tominy. |
| 0:40.9 | And me, Tim Stanley. |
| 0:52.6 | Tim, turns out we were quite prescient yesterday because no one had really linked. |
| 0:57.8 | You saw it coming indeed, yes. |
| 0:59.5 | The Mystic Meg Ball was out, the crystal ball. |
| 1:02.7 | To be fair, a kind of rare blow of my little toot of my own trumpet. |
| 1:07.1 | I did point this out with Lisa Nandi at the weekend on my DB News show. |
| 1:10.6 | I said, well, hang on a minute. |
| 1:12.1 | Starman was talking about the self-determination of Greenlanders |
| 1:15.2 | and trying to protect their interests, |
| 1:17.6 | yet he's sold out the Chagosans |
| 1:19.5 | and therefore he can be criticised for the great Chegos sellout. |
| 1:25.0 | And then Andrew Rossendell, having recently defected from the Tories to reform, |
| 1:29.5 | made that very point in this Daily T studio. He claims the straw that broke the conservative |
| 1:34.8 | camels back for him was this idea that the Tories started the process of selling the Chegos Islands |
| 1:41.5 | and, OK, Labor gave it rocket fuel, but what on earth were |
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