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Guido Fawkes21 Mar 2026

Guido’s Most Read Stories This Week

This week 941,770 visitors visited 839,618 times viewing 909,111 pages. The most read and shared stories in order of popularity were: Ofcom Fines 4chan £520,000, Lawyer Responds With Picture of Giant Hamster Revealed: How YouGov’s Reform Deficit Was Created as Farage Forces Pollster to Climb Down Rayner May Owe Tax on Labour-Funded Legal Advice… About…

EconomyReform
Guido Fawkes20 Mar 2026

UK 10-Year Gilts On Track for 2008 Financial Crisis Levels

Markets turning, gilts spiking. Good job Reeves has “the right economic plan”, apparently…

EconomyHousing
Guido Fawkes19 Mar 2026

Labour Blames ‘Spiralling Administrative Costs’ to Justify FoI Clampdown

Labour is considering lowering the cost ceiling for processing Freedom of Information (FoI) requests, using ‘spiralling administrative costs’ as the latest excuse to limit government transparency. Obviously blaming China wasn’t good enough… According to briefings in the FT: “The soaring number of requests comes against a backdrop of heavily constrained Whitehall budgets… the cost threshold…

Economy
Guido Fawkes17 Mar 2026

READ IN FULL: Rachel Reeves’ Brexit-Bashing Mais Lecture

Read the full 7563-word lecture by going to the bottom of this page. Here’s the summary for those afraid of falling asleep at the desk: Brexit Said Brexit “did deep damage”, citing GDP impacts of “up to 8%“. Regulatory independence should be “the exception, not the norm” when it comes to playing by Brussels’ rules.…

Economy
Guido Fawkes17 Mar 2026

Mauritius Government Collapsing as Chagos Deal Demise Blows Hole in Budget

It’s all kicking off in Port Louis as Mauritius’s Deputy Prime Minister has announced he is intending to resign. Paul Berenger said: “My decision is made, but when I implement it, and if I do, I will communicate the details.” A full-blown political crisis is kicking off in Mauritius, thanks to Keir Starmer… The Mauritius…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes17 Mar 2026

FACT CHECK: Reeves Claims Tax-Hiking Budgets Prevented Higher Inflation

Rachel Reeves has just claimed in her Mais lecture she had to raise taxes in both her car-crash Budgets because not doing so would have led to “higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher borrowing… or collapsing public services“. Admitting these choices were “unpopular” with some, which is the understatement of the millennium…  Here is what…

Economy
Guido Fawkes17 Mar 2026

Nearly a Million Self-Employed Brits Face New Quarterly Tax Returns

HMRC data published today shows 864,000 self-employed workers and landlords will be forced into quarterly digital tax reporting when ‘Making Tax Digital for Income Tax’ goes live in April. The construction sector is the worst affected, with 251,000 businesses caught by the new rules. That is nearly a third of the total. One-man band plumbers,…

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Guido Fawkes17 Mar 2026

LIVE: Farage and Jenrick Pledge to Cut Energy Bills

The plan: VAT on energy bills scrapped. Taking around £85 off the average household bill. Green levy and carbon tax scrapped. Reform claims this saves another £115…  Funded by “cuts to quangos“. Farage launches nigelcutmybills.com draw with the winner’s entire street getting energy bills paid for a year .

EconomyEnvironmentReform
Guido Fawkes17 Mar 2026

Miliband Tells Pubs to Serve Warmer Beer to Cut Costs

Miliband’s suggestions to pubs clinging on for dear life: switch off your fridges overnight, serve warmer beer, and turn off the ovens. And the taxpayer has coughed up £350,000 to produce these measures… DESNZ pumped that cash into Zero Carbon Services’ ‘energy and carbon reduction tool’ which was rolled out to 525 pubs, restaurants, and…

EconomyDefenceEnvironment
Guido Fawkes17 Mar 2026

Reeves Bets on Brussels in Last-Ditch Attempt at Economic Growth

Rachel Reeves is set to beat the drum for even closer ties to Brussels in her Mais lecture this afternoon. Here is what she’ll say, for those who can’t bear to listen: “In this changing world, Britain is not powerless. We can shape our own future. Our method is stability, investment and reform — through…

Economy
Guido Fawkes16 Mar 2026

Revealed: Rayner May Owe Tax on Labour-Funded Legal Advice… About Her Own Tax Affairs

Angela Rayner could now face yet another tax bill over the legal advice Labour paid for to examine her personal finances before her resignation last September. It’s a day ending in Y, so Angela Rayner’s tax affairs are back in the headlines…  The Times has revealed that Labour used party funds to hire Jonathan Peacock…

Economy
Guido Fawkes16 Mar 2026

Britain’s Inheritance Tax ‘One of the Harshest in the World’

A new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs has found the UK’s death tax rate is “far more punishing” than even the 40% headline figure appears. It is brutal for parents hoping to provide for their children… The British tax code offers no lower rate or exemption for assets passed on to children, unlike…

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