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Guido Fawkes10 Apr 2026

Labour Dismantles Mandatory Cost Reporting for Trade Union Duties in Government

Labour has now fully dismantled the reporting process for trade union facility time in government departments. The pilgrims can proliferate without the hassle of public scrutiny… Facility time is paid time off for union staff working in the public sector. It has long been abused by union stooges – the Employment Rights Act removed a…

Guido Fawkes10 Apr 2026

Healey: Starmer Went to the Gulf ‘To Scope Discussions’ on Iran

John Healey has summarised Starmer’s trip to the Middle East as ‘scoping work’ during a televised interview this morning. Meetings, meetings… The Defence Secretary talked up Starmer’s role in changing Britain’s posture at the London Defence Conference: “I thought that was a really important speech um and a very important sort of declaration of first…

Defence
Guido Fawkes10 Apr 2026

Blair Backs New Oil and Gas Drilling in Latest Net Zero Attack

The Tony Blair Institute has staged yet another rare intervention against Miliband’s Net Zero fantasy, with a new report accusing him of being too “ideological” and urging the government to approve the drilling of the Jackdaw gas field and the Rosebank oilfield. This is the fourth time in a year that Blair has criticised Labour…

Environment
Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

BBC Apologises to Ex-SpAd After ‘Unfair’ Stewart Lee & Armando Iannucci Programme

The BBC has apologised to an ex-Tory SpAd after a radio programme aired in which filmmaker Armando Iannucci and comedian Stewart Lee accused him of ‘spreading misinformation.’ Maybe only the brightest and best comic thinkers should venture out of their stand-up remit… In an episode of Iannucci’s programme for Radio 4, called Strong Message Here,…

Defence
Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

IN FULL: Every Restaurateur & Chef to Come Out Against Labour Government

Yesterday Leon boss John Vincent said Labour is “totally killing the restaurant industry” and that “everyone knows restaurants are done.” Stark… Chefs, restaurateurs, and industry leaders have varied criticisms of Reeves’ policies. They all agree they aren’t doing any good… Guido has compiled them for co-conspirators’ reading leisure below: Celebrity chefs / high-profile restaurateurs (12)…

Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

Bursting the Bubble: One Month to Go…

Welcome to Bursting the Bubble-  the weekly guide to the polls, the numbers and the elections that matter. A series so good, Angela Rayner stole its name for her podcast. Become a member now to get access to Guido’s poll of polls and all the latest data… Just four weeks until the locals…

Politics
Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

Labour Bulldozes Through Overwhelming Employer Opposition to New Union Access Policy

Documents released by the government show overwhelming employer opposition to the union access proposals set out in the Employment Rights Act. Labour is obviously proceeding anyway… 1,210 respondents to the government consultation on trade union access to workplaces were employers out of 1,612 total: Percentage of consultation respondents who disagreed with government proposals — all…

Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

HMRC Spends More Than £6 Million on Advisers for Hated ‘Making Tax Digital’ Regime

HMRC is spending more than £6 million per year on staff to administer the hated Making Tax Digital rules, which will force self-employed and other taxpayers to file tax information five times a year. You can’t hate these guys enough… The pointless regime has as of this month begun pulling people in for the first…

Economy
Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

Sarwar Says “This Is Not Over” as Polling Shows Labour Heading for Holyrood Wipeout

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has insisted it is “all to play for” in Holyrood next month despite fresh polling from STV putting Labour a whopping 24 points behind the SNP. Labour is on track for its worst-ever defeat north of the border…  Party Vote Share ■ SNP 39% ■ LAB 15% ■ REF 15%…

ImmigrationDefence
Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

Downing Street Meets With AI Firm Representatives Amid Cybersecurity Scare

Representatives of prominent AI firm Anthropic have held meetings in No10 this morning. Along with other AI specialists… Anthropic’s latest AI model Mythos can identify critical vulnerabilities in a vast array of security systems (including national ones). It can do so with software that is more than 30 years old. Anthropic is keeping the model…

PoliticsDefence
Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

WATCH: Polanski Refuses to Rule Out 55 MPH Motorway Speed Limit Policy

“It wasn’t in our manifesto” is hardly a genius way of dodging the question…

Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

Disaster for Miliband as OpenAI Pauses Huge UK Project Over Energy Costs & Regulation

Gargantuan Silicon Valley tech firm OpenAI has paused a major UK infrastructure. Blaming energy costs and regulations… Stargate is being paused: “We see huge potential for the UK‘s AI future… AI compute is foundational to that goal — we continue to explore Stargate UK and will move forward when the right conditions such as regulation…

Defence