News

Original reporting and the latest political headlines from across the UK.

Our Articles

Mainstream Headlines

Filtering by:Tag: housing×Source: Guido Fawkes×Clear all

46 headlines found — Page 1 of 4

Guido Fawkes5 May 2026

EXC: Labour Proposes Tripling Conference Business Pass Cost

Labour has proposed charging business pass attendees to its Party Conference a whopping £2,500. For the pleasure of seeing a junior minister’s face over breakfast of stale croissants… The party is launching all pass applications on the 11th of this month. Its conference services team currently asking previous business attendees a series of questions about…

Housing
Guido Fawkes5 May 2026

Real Estate Firms Hammer Treasury’s Optimistic Mansion Tax Revenue Projections

Reeves’ Mansion Tax is set to lose the Treasury at least £400 million before it comes into effect in April 2028. Experts are casting doubt on those optimistic figures… The tax means that homeowners will be forced to pay a flat surcharge in addition to council tax if their property is valued at £2 million…

EconomyHousing
Guido Fawkes5 May 2026

Reed Backs Rayner Cabinet Return as Labour MPs Plot Move on Starmer

Housing Secretary Steve Reed on Sky News this morning, asked if Angela Rayner should return to the Cabinet: “I think in time. I think she did a great job, I’m a big fan and friend of Angela Rayner. She’s really good at communicating, can cut through to voters, she has a role to play.” The…

PoliticsHousing
Guido Fawkes30 Apr 2026

Financial Times Journalists Throw Strop Over Four-Day Office Week

Hacks at the Financial Times are in open dispute with management after being asked to come into the office four days a week. Apparently there is “no compelling case” to be at their desks for more than three… Members of the FT’s union have unanimously voted to initiate the paper’s dispute procedure after managing editor…

Housing
Guido Fawkes30 Apr 2026

Burnham: Labour Should Take “a Different Course” After Local Elections

Andy Burnham speaking to Bloomberg: The local elections will be “challenging“: “It’s got to be a moment of reflection… I understand the real frustration people have got with politics and politicians. I honestly, I really understand that. And they’re right to say politics just hasn’t been working.” Doesn’t rule out standing for Parliament again: “The…

PoliticsHousing
Guido Fawkes29 Apr 2026

Starmer Arson Trial: Three Accused of Taking Cash From Russian Speaker on Telegram

Proceedings are underway at the Old Bailey with Judge Mr Justice Garnham. The key points so far: Three men are charged with conspiracy to damage property by fire between 1 April and 13 May 2025: Roman Lavrynovych (22, Ukrainian), Petro Pochynok (35, Ukrainian) and Stanislav Carpiuc (27, Romanian). All three deny the charges. Lavrynovych faces…

ReformHousing
Guido Fawkes29 Apr 2026

Housing Secretary Steve Reed Insists Labour is ‘Ruling Out’ Rent Controls

Housing Secretary Steve Reed has repeatedly stressed on this morning’s media round that the government has ‘ruled out’ imposing a one-year rent freeze. Reed my lips: no rent freeze… He told Sky News: “Yeah, I ruled it out in Parliament just a couple of weeks ago… and the reason we’re doing that is the Scottish…

PoliticsHousing
Guido Fawkes28 Apr 2026

WATCH: Reeves Fails to Deny Private Rent Freeze Proposals

Rachel Reeves has hinted at her plans for a one-year rent freeze in the Commons: “This Government have already taken action to reduce the cost of living and to bear down on inflation with the changes around energy prices, around fuel duty, prescription charges and rail fares, and I will do everything in my power…

PoliticsEconomyHousing
Guido Fawkes28 Apr 2026

Every Time Labour Promised Not to Introduce Rent Controls

Rachel Reeves – who is fighting to keep her job post-May elections – is now plotting a one-year rent freeze on private sector rented homes excluding new builds. Part of a “cost of living package” which will obviously only raise rents… Labour has constantly said it would not impose rent controls, be they stabilisation or…

PoliticsEconomyHousing
Guido Fawkes27 Apr 2026

Labour Pays Four ‘Interim New Town Advisers’ Equivalent of £281,000 to Bolster Failing Housing Target

Labour is paying four “temporary advisers” the equivalent of £280,800 a year to kickstart its new homes programme. This is the project the government claims will aid “the most ambitious housebuilding programme in more than half a century” which has so far fallen far below expectations. Labour is expected to miss its housebuilding target… Labour…

Housing
Guido Fawkes22 Apr 2026

Andy Burnham Copies Rayner With London Campaign Spree

Ambitious Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham is campaigning in London with allies of Angela Rayner. Politics Home reports that Burnham is to head to Islington and Lewisham to do some door-to-door campaigning. Curiously Guido can report that three days after Angela Rayner went door-knocking in Peckham with leftist housing minister Miatta Fahbulleh, Burnham is doing…

PoliticsHousing
Guido Fawkes21 Apr 2026

Foreign Office Permanent Secretary: Runners and Riders

Olly Robbins is out at the FCDO. The runners and riders: Nick Dyer: Currently Robbins’ temporary replacement as Interim Permanent Under-Secretary at the FCDO. Dyer has almost exclusively held roles in the now-absorbed Department for International Development and subsequently was the “aid guy” in the Foreign Office. Sources inside say he is “aid-obsessed” and on…

Housing