Is Britain in Decline? Economist Catherine McBride Sounds the Alarm

Economist Catherine McBride joins to discuss Britain’s deepening economic troubles — from high taxes and deindustrialisation to business flight and welfare waste. With business confidence collapsing and investment drying up, is the UK trapped in a doom loop of its own making?

We explore the controversial new crypto advert portraying Britain as broken, examine Labour’s upcoming budget pressures, and ask whether a wealth tax would do more harm than good.

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'We know there's a lot more work to do.'

Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury James Murray MP responds to UK's ninth richest man fleeing the country and claiming Britain has 'gone to hell under Labour'.

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'Talk about smashing the gangs...'

James Heale reacts to asylum seekers being caught making an OnlyFans sex film in a taxpayer-funded hotel.

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'My goodness, where do I start?!'

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp MP reveals who he believes should be booted out of Keir Starmer's Cabinet, with Rachel Reeves sitting top of his list.

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Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson defends Chancellor Rachel Reeves after her emotional moment in the Commons, insisting Reeves is “a tough cookie” and just getting on with the job. Phillipson also dismisses rumours of Labour infighting, discusses the VAT on private schools, the teacher recruitment pledge, and responds to criticism over Corbyn and Sultana’s new party.

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'The sense of morality seems to be missing in quite widespread groups of these individuals. Integration was non-existent...'

Camilla Tominey asks Founder of Faith Matters Fiyaz Mughal why Pakistani men appear to be the main culprits in the grooming gang scandal.

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'Smashing the gangs?! We've got more people coming here by dinghy than ever before in history!'

Camilla Tominey challenges Peter Kyle MP's claims that Labour are 'getting a grip' on the asylum system, despite small boat crossings being at a record high.

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'We bring forward serious answers... not get into bed with Keir Starmer!'

Camilla Tominey challenges Shadow Justice Minister Robert Jenrick on the threat Reform UK poses to the Tories, saying he 'has to be Farage-ian to have any hope in hell of being elected'.

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'The reason why it's tough is because we are not giving the easy answers - we are telling the truth.'

Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch MP addresses her party's poor ratings in opinion polls.

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‘Do you really know what’s in the national interest?’

Camilla Tominey puts it to Nick Thomas-Symonds that he cannot be working with the public’s wants and needs at the forefront of his mind when he campaigned for a second Brexit referendum.

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Richard Tice slams the government on immigration and says Green and Lib Dem councils are welcome to house migrants in a vow to resist accommodating them in Reform councils.

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'For months I've had Conservative MPs messaging me asking what it's like inside Reform.'

Dame Andrea Jenkyns is asked whether she thinks we'll see more defections to Reform UK.

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'I will eat my hat if Angela Rayner quits the Cabinet.'

Former Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth reacts to reports that Angela Rayner has threatened to resign over the government's 'impossible' target of building 1.5 million homes in the next five years.

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'I think we ought to call them rape gangs.'

Michael Portillo reacts to an independent MP who has called the grooming gangs scandal reaction a 'false right-wing narrative'.

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Author and commentator Douglas Murray joins Camilla Tominey to discuss his powerful new book “On Democracies and Death Cults”. In this wide-ranging and hard-hitting interview, Murray reflects on the October 7th Hamas attacks, the UK’s failure to confront Islamic extremism, and the shameful lack of action on grooming gangs.

He questions why Britain continues to tolerate open displays of support for terrorist groups, why inquiries have replaced prosecutions, and what the West’s reaction to Islamist violence says about the state of our civilisation.

Plus, Murray addresses the brutal prison attack by Hashem Abedi, the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, and the wider questions of security, justice, and accountability.

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Camilla Tominey grills Darren Jones on Labour's handling of the economy.

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'We've never won Runcorn.'

'So you're not bothering?'

Camilla Tominey questions Alex Burghart MP on why the Tory Party have 'given up' with the Runcorn by-election.

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Camilla Tominey grills Darren Jones on the 'anti-business' impact of Labour's policies.

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