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Guido Fawkes17 Mar 2026

LIVE: Farage and Jenrick Pledge to Cut Energy Bills

The plan: VAT on energy bills scrapped. Taking around £85 off the average household bill. Green levy and carbon tax scrapped. Reform claims this saves another £115…  Funded by “cuts to quangos“. Farage launches nigelcutmybills.com draw with the winner’s entire street getting energy bills paid for a year .

EconomyEnvironmentReform
Guido Fawkes17 Mar 2026

Miliband Tells Pubs to Serve Warmer Beer to Cut Costs

Miliband’s suggestions to pubs clinging on for dear life: switch off your fridges overnight, serve warmer beer, and turn off the ovens. And the taxpayer has coughed up £350,000 to produce these measures… DESNZ pumped that cash into Zero Carbon Services’ ‘energy and carbon reduction tool’ which was rolled out to 525 pubs, restaurants, and…

EconomyDefenceEnvironment
Guido Fawkes17 Mar 2026

Reeves Bets on Brussels in Last-Ditch Attempt at Economic Growth

Rachel Reeves is set to beat the drum for even closer ties to Brussels in her Mais lecture this afternoon. Here is what she’ll say, for those who can’t bear to listen: “In this changing world, Britain is not powerless. We can shape our own future. Our method is stability, investment and reform — through…

Economy
Guido Fawkes16 Mar 2026

Revealed: Rayner May Owe Tax on Labour-Funded Legal Advice… About Her Own Tax Affairs

Angela Rayner could now face yet another tax bill over the legal advice Labour paid for to examine her personal finances before her resignation last September. It’s a day ending in Y, so Angela Rayner’s tax affairs are back in the headlines…  The Times has revealed that Labour used party funds to hire Jonathan Peacock…

Economy
Guido Fawkes16 Mar 2026

Britain’s Inheritance Tax ‘One of the Harshest in the World’

A new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs has found the UK’s death tax rate is “far more punishing” than even the 40% headline figure appears. It is brutal for parents hoping to provide for their children… The British tax code offers no lower rate or exemption for assets passed on to children, unlike…

EconomyHousing
Guido Fawkes13 Mar 2026

US Treasury Secretary Says Starmer Put American Lives at Risk With Base Denial

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has told Sky News’ Wilfred Frost that Starmer’s decision to block US forces’ ability to launch strikes from Diego Garcia risked the lives of American servicemen. Team Trump is still fuming with the PM… Starmer obviously reversed that decision in 24 hours but the damage was done. Frost asked Bessent…

Economy
Guido Fawkes13 Mar 2026

Labour Boasts About “A Growing Economy” Twelve Hours Before Achieving 0% Growth

There is a whole section in the latest ‘The Labour Rosette’ newsletter to party members, published at 6.31pm last night, dedicated to the government’s ‘right economic plan’. Apparently Labour has “restored stability to our public finances” and the economy is “resilient”.  It even reheats the closer to Reeves’ snooze-fest of a Spring Statement: “My plan is…

EconomyHousing
Guido Fawkes13 Mar 2026

Economy Flatlines at 0.0% Growth in January

New figures released by the Office for National Statistics shows that the economy flatlined in January. Your pre-Iran War growth is… zero. GDP grew by 0.1% in December and economists expected it to grow by 0.2% in January. Instead it posted 0% growth… Services showed no growth, production fell by 0.1%, and construction grew by…

EconomyDefence
Guido Fawkes12 Mar 2026

British Borrowing Costs Rise to Six-Month Highs

UK gilt yields are rising at a rapid rate again. Throwing Reeves’ fiscal plans into disarray… The yield on 30-year gilts has climbed by 12 basis points to 5.47%. 10-year yields reached 4.754% just now. These are the highest since October…

Economy
Guido Fawkes12 Mar 2026

Downing Street Insists Mandelson’s £75,000 Payout Does Not Contradict Official Guidance

Downing Street is insisting Mandelson’s £75,000 severance payout did not contradict the government’s own official guidance on public sector exit payouts, which makes clear payouts should not be used to soften reputational damage. Speaking at the Lobby briefing of press hacks this afternoon: “[Mandelson’s payout was] Treasury-approved severance in line with standard HMT guidance and…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes11 Mar 2026

WATCH: Starmer Opens Door to Reversing Reeves’ Fuel Duty Hike

Starmer has suggested that the rise in fuel duty could be reversed before it is defrosted in September. In PMQs he said: “We will keep the situation under review in light of what’s happening in Iran.” Reeves told the Treasury Committee about 20 minutes before that she was ‘loath’ to climb down from the tax…

Economy
Guido Fawkes11 Mar 2026

Reeves: ‘It is Valid’ to Say Labour Shouldn’t Have Raised National Insurance

During Reeves’ Treasury Committee appearance this morning in which the Chancellor said she supports releasing strategic oil reserves, she also said there is a ‘valid’ argument to be made that she shouldn’t have raised National Insurance: “Yeah, we did make the decision to increase national insurance in my first Budget and that’s because we needed…

Economy