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Guido Fawkes21 Aug 2026

Labour MP Deletes Post Claiming Private Sector Would Not Exist Without Government Contracts

Vocal Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash has deleted an X post which read: “Public sector workers use their income to pay FOR the private sector. The state is one of the biggest procurers of the private sector. It wouldn’t exist without tax payers. People creating the divide between public and private genuinely don’t understand how an…

Economy
Guido Fawkes21 Aug 2026

Borrowing Rises Above Forecasts in July

New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that total UK debt is at £2.985 trillion. A hair’s breadth of the £3 trillion mark… Borrowing was higher than OBR forecasts at £1.8 billion in July, up £0.7 billion on the same month last year. Self-assessed income tax was collected last month and total receipts…

Economy
Guido Fawkes20 Aug 2026

Welsh Government Hands More Than £800,000 to Asylum Seeker ‘Sanctuary’ Charity

The Welsh Government is handing out hundreds of thousands in taxpayer contracts to organisations supporting asylum seekers, despite immigration being a brief reserved to Westminster. Plaid… Last week Sioned Williams, thr the Welsh Deputy First Minister and ‘Cabinet Minister for Social Justice and Equality’ said the Welsh Refugee Council has been “allocated £840,000 (including VAT)…

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Guido Fawkes20 Aug 2026

Lucy Powell Defends Taxpayer-Funded Posters Telling Illegal Immigrants Not to Rape Women

The posters were published yesterday by the Home Office. They warn asylum seekers, among other things: Women are allowed to “earn their own money” and “make their own decisions about their lives.“ Do not make sexual remarks about someone “even if you think it is a compliment“, whistle or make “kissing sounds” at someone. Do…

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Guido Fawkes19 Aug 2026

Voluntary Tax Payments Drop Again

The ‘tax us more’ crowd have again proven their hypocrisy as the cash sent voluntarily to HMRC dwindles for another year running. The ‘Patriotic Millionaires’ not looking so rosy now… In the 2025 calendar year 47 individuals contributed a measly £88,807.48 to the government’s coffers. In 2024 £643,370 was sent in… In this year so…

Economy
Guido Fawkes19 Aug 2026

Only Half of Eligible Taxpayers File First ‘Making Tax Digital’ Return

Just over half of eligible taxpayers filed their first of five annual tax returns in the hated new ‘Making Tax Digital’ scheme. This is going to be a disaster… Last year HMRC told more than 864,000 sole traders and landlords that they were required to enter Making Tax Digital for Income Tax from 6 April…

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Guido Fawkes19 Aug 2026

Inflation Jumps to 2.9% in July

New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that inflation jumped to 2.9% in July, up from 2.6% the month before. As expected by economists… The jump was attributed to a rise in energy prices – especially gas costs – and increases in the price of furniture and clothing. John Healey said: “Iran war…

PoliticsEconomyDefence
Guido Fawkes18 Aug 2026

Ex-Cabinet Secretary Wormald Handed £500,000 Payout After Starmer Sacking

According to the FT, former Cabinet Secretary Chris Wormald received a staggering £500,000 payout after Starmer sacked him in February. A record sum which is almost double the expected amount, and paid by the taxpayer. Thanks Keir… His sudden departure after just 14 months in the job – once Starmer decided he’d made the wrong…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes18 Aug 2026

Job Vacancies Hit Lowest Level in Five Years

Miserable new figures from the ONS show there are 18,000 fewer vacancies available than a year ago, with the lowest overall total since the pandemic. Unemployment sat at 4.9% in the three months to June. Small businesses have tightened their belts the most, cutting 8,000 openings, in the face of higher employment taxes and operational…

Economy
Guido Fawkes17 Aug 2026

Labour MP Suspended Amid Questions Over £50,000 Taxpayer-Funded Covid Loan

Labour MP Bayo Alaba has been suspended from the party over questions about whether he tried to avoid repaying a taxpayer-funded bounce-back loan during the pandemic. To the tune of £50,000… Alaba is a co-owner of Alaba Properties Ltd. Companies House records show an attempt was made to dissolve the company in March 2022. Which…

Economy
Guido Fawkes13 Aug 2026

Economy Grows by Only 0.4% in Second Quarter

New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that GDP grew by 0.4% in the second quarter of the year, down from 0.6% in the first. Broken down: April: Down 0.1% May: No change June: Up 0.3% The ONS said: “In output terms, growth in the latest quarter was mainly caused by an increase…

Economy
Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

Rayner Gets Burnham’s Flagship Tax Policy Entirely Wrong

On LBC today Angela Rayner got her own department’s policy wrong by claiming that Labour has cut VAT for some businesses. Have a look at this transcript: LBC: And Andy Burnham writes in one of the newspapers today, The Daily Mirror, that he’d like to see the return of butchers and bakers and bookshops, and…

Economy