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Guido Fawkes4 Apr 2026

Guido’s Most Read Stories This Week

This week 923,842 visitors visited 856,122 times viewing 905,313 pages. The most read and shared stories in order of popularity were: Caroline Wheeler Out as Sunday Times Political Editor Taxpayer Coughs up Almost Ten Grand to Remove Pro-Palestine Graffiti From Churchill Statue Labour Begs Party Members Not to Speak to the Press at Ed Miliband…

PoliticsEconomyDefence
Guido Fawkes2 Apr 2026

Taxpayer Coughs Up Almost Ten Grand to Remove Pro-Palestine Graffiti From Churchill Statue

To add insult to injury the bill for the restoration of the Churchill statue in Parliament Square is over a whopping £7,000. So much owed by so many… The 12-foot Churchill was graffitied three separate times in 2020 and was targeted again in February this year when he was sprayed with red paint and slogans…

PoliticsEconomyDefence
Guido Fawkes2 Apr 2026

Welsh Voters Turn Backs on Net Zero Ahead of Senedd Elections

New polling from the TaxPayers’ Alliance shows just 6% of Welsh voters now see Net Zero as a top priority, with the cost of living, NHS waiting times and illegal immigration all ranking far higher. A single tear runs down Miliband’s cheek… The poll of 1,011 Welsh adults found only 22% are confident the government…

PoliticsEconomyImmigrationEnvironmentHealthcare
Guido Fawkes2 Apr 2026

Four in Ten Appeals Against ‘Highly Uncertain’ Reeves Mansion Tax Set to Succeed

The Office for Budget Responsibility’s own detailed costings of Reeves’ new Mansion Tax predict 40% of appeals against property valuations will be successful. Introducing a new band with re-evaluations will be utter chaos… The OBR has put out supplementary forecast information on the new tax this morning. The forecaster predicts the Treasury will lose £275…

EconomyHousing
Guido Fawkes2 Apr 2026

LIVE: Farage and Jenrick Host Press Conference on State Pension

It’s staying… Jenrick on keeping the triple lock: “We can only make the commitment today because we will cut tens and tens of billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money the government wastes every year… we will reset government spending”. Farage claims Reform will announce massive cuts to the benefits bill in the next ‘couple of…

EconomyReform
Guido Fawkes1 Apr 2026

EXC: HMRC Stamp Duty Investigations Take 35 Months on Average in Blow to Rayner

Angela Rayner potentially faces an extremely long wait before making a leadership push, figures uncovered by Guido reveal. Figures from HMRC show that in the last four years the average length of time that Stamp Duty Land tax (SDLT) investigations have taken to complete is an average of 35 months. Rayner admitted she may have paid…

Economy
Guido Fawkes31 Mar 2026

IN FULL: Every Tax Hike Coming Into Force Tomorrow Despite Starmer’s Claim He Can’t Do Anything About Higher Costs

Reeves and Starmer have so far offered basically nothing in terms of action to lower bills in the face of disruption from the Iran war. But there is something they could do… The below tax hikes are due to come into force tomorrow. Co-conspirators will notice many of them relate to travel… The government could…

EconomyDefenceReform
Guido Fawkes31 Mar 2026

LIVE: Farage and Jenrick Announce Policy to Reduce Cost of Flights

Farage and Jenrick are in Heathrow to discuss holiday costs. Air Passenger Duty is a cash cow for the government… Farage announces Air Passenger Duty will be targeted by Reform. Some facts about that tax: The highest aviation tax of its type in the world. Britain carries just 3% of global passengers but accounts for…

EconomyReform
Guido Fawkes31 Mar 2026

Labour Minister ‘Can’t Quite Believe’ Junior Doctor Union Would Strike for More Cash

Chief Secretary to the Treasury James Murray has said he “can’t quite believe” the British Medical Association’s decision to strike after even Labour handed junior doctors the highest pay rises in the public sector for two years in a row. Old lessons about the unions are being relearnt… The BMA continues to demand ridiculous “full…

EconomyHealthcare
Guido Fawkes30 Mar 2026

Labour Begins Negotiating Permanent Mechanism to Hand Taxpayer Cash to EU

The European Council has approved Labour’s rejoining the EU’s Erasmus scheme for 2027 this morning. Higher taxes to pay billions to the bloc… That means two new negotiations are starting. One on placing the UK inside the EU’s internal electricity market – which will likely entail massive rule-taking and bill rises – and one on…

Economy
Guido Fawkes27 Mar 2026

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Blasts Financial Times for “Explicitly False Story”

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has given the FT both barrels over their “explicitly false story” which claimed he had considered strengthening Treasury oversight of the Federal Reserve “in the Bank of England’s image“. Bessent described the paper as “tabloid trash”… “Despite my direct, on-the-record denial of ever having advocated, explored, or espoused the idea…

Economy
Guido Fawkes26 Mar 2026

OECD Cuts UK Growth Forecast to 0.7%, Inflation to Skyrocket

The Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has slashed the UK’s growth forecast by half a percent, down to just 0.7%. The biggest hit in the entire G20… Inflation is also predicted to soar to 4%, double the Bank of England’s target. Britain is the most exposed of any advanced economy to the Iran…

Economy