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Guido Fawkes25 Mar 2026

Inflation Remains at 3%

ONS chief economist Grant Fitzner said: “After last month’s slowdown, annual inflation was unchanged. The largest upwards driver was the price of clothing, which rose this month but fell a year ago. “This was offset by falls in petrol costs, with prices collected before the start of the conflict in the Middle East and subsequent…

EconomyDefence
Guido Fawkes24 Mar 2026

Reeves Slams Tory Energy Cap Despite Previously Claiming It Didn’t Go Far Enough

Rachel Reeves has gone through a Damascene conversion on energy bills. As of today, her position is the Truss-era universal cap was a “mistake” because it benefitted the wealthy and added to the national debt. She is right: the taxpayer should never be paying to heat millionaires’ swimming pools. She didn’t say this in opposition.…

Economy
Guido Fawkes23 Mar 2026

LIVE: Starmer Grilled by MPs in Liaison Committee Meeting

Keir Starmer is up in front of the Liaison Committee for the next hour. Expect plenty on Iran and the economy…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes23 Mar 2026

Downing Street Insists Public Finances ‘Stable’ as Cost of Borrowing Soars

The Number 10 spokesman in the Lobby briefing of press hacks today: “We doubled our headroom against our fiscal rules. Borrowing is forecast to be lower than the G7 average… we have delivered stability when it comes to the public finances, and we’ve done so in a way that allows us to invest in priorities…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes23 Mar 2026

UK 10-Year Gilts Surge Above 5% for First Time Since 2008

At the time of going to pixel, 10 year-gilts are at 5.069% – and rising. Now hitting 2008 financial crisis levels… and comfortably higher than the 4.42% peak after Liz Truss’s mini-Budget…

Economy
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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