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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
Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

Parole Officers Vote to Strike in Indicative Ballot

Members in the trade union representing parole officers, NAPO, have voted to strike in an indicative ballot. Prisons becoming the real headache… 90.67% of members have voted in favour, mostly over pay. National Chairman Ben Cockburn said: “This ballot wasn’t about members being too busy. It was professionals warning they cannot protect the public properly…

DefenceCrime
Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

WATCH: Farage to Give Yusuf a ‘Ticking Off’ After He Branded Ben Wallace ‘Traitor’

Farage told the Sun’s political editor Jack Elsom that Zia Yusuf would get a dressing down for referring to former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace as a “traitor” in his X posts last night: “That is too strong language. I shall give him a ticking off… I’ll speak to him today, but it’s over the top.”…

PoliticsDefenceReform
Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

WATCH: Burnham Fails to Guarantee PC Harper’s Killers Will Stay Behind Bars

Burnham has said it’s all on his Justice Secretary now when it comes to early release. He also failed to guarantee that PC Harper’s two killers won’t be released early: “What I have said is that I believe we can go much further, and I hope we can get to a position where people who…

Reform
Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

Shadow Cabinet Rankings: Badenoch Up Again

ConHome’s latest Shadow Cabinet rankings have Badenoch extending favourability among Tory members since May, with Shadow Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho pipping Shadow Justice Sec Nick Timothy to second place. At the bottom of the list, Stuart Andrew has come out of single digits, and Priti Patel is heading that way… Net Change 1 Kemi Badenoch…

PoliticsReform
Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

No10 Insists It May Not Actually Be Able to U-Turn Early Release of PC Harper’s Killers

No10 is in a bind this morning as it is forced to remind its own ministers that Burnham has only ‘instructed’ Justice Secretary Alex Norris to find a way to keep Andrew Harper’s killers behind bars by September. Thus throwing him under the bus if it fails – but it’s too clever by half… Angela…

Reform
Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

Rayner Reacts to Boeing-Sized Migrant Boat: ‘These Are Children and Women, Desperate & Vulnerable People’

Angela Rayner was asked on the Today programme whether it is appropriate for people to be crossing the channel on boats carrying the same number of passengers as an EasyJet flight. Nick Robinson noted that at this point along with sympathy Brits are also feeling “rage.” Rayner said: “Well, these are desperate, vulnerable people getting…

Guido Fawkes10 Aug 2026

FLASHBACK: Burnham Backed Bookies Only Six Years Ago

In October 2020, Mayor Andy Burnham said during Covid: “People here in Greater Manchester have been living under restrictions for three months, and they have taken a heavy toll on people. They are struggling. Businesses are on the brink of closure. To accept any further restrictions in these circumstances would be certain to increase levels…

Guido Fawkes10 Aug 2026

Sumption Takes Aim at Burnham’s Constitutional Reform Plans

The latest pronouncement from No10 North is that Britain needs major constitutional reform as part of Burnham’s ‘circuit breaker’ philosophy. Trying to style himself as the new Blair… Enter former Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption who took no prisoners in the Telegraph over the weekend: “A written constitution… would have to deal with the whole…

ReformCrime
Guido Fawkes10 Aug 2026

MoJ Advised Exempting Early Releases Based on Length of Sentences, Not Offence Type

Burnham’s Downing Street is in no good mood with officials from the MoJ over exemptions in the early release scheme. It’s falling apart… Guido understands there is fury at Ministry of Justice officials, who have been accused of incompetence for coming up with changing capacity numbers in the prison estate. They are concerned that the…

PoliticsReformCrime
Guido Fawkes10 Aug 2026

Rachel Reeves Changes X Bio to ‘Former Bank of England Economist’

Rachel Reeves has changed her bio on X since leaving No11. Back to her roots… It now reads: “MP for Leeds West and Pudsey🌹| Former Bank of England economist” It’s good that she doesn’t claim to have been an economist at HBOS as she did previously. She worked in complaints… Reeves has been posting about…

Guido Fawkes10 Aug 2026

EXC: Government-Funded Research Institute Run by New Science Minister Goes Bust

The government-funded research institute run until recently by science minister Chris McDonald has entered insolvency proceedings. Doesn’t bode well… The Materials Processing Institute, the Teesside research centre run by Labour minister Chris McDonald for a decade, has begun proceedings under the Insolvency Act. McDonald was chief executive of the institute from 2014 to 2024, having…