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Guido Fawkes12 May 2026

Streeting Arrives at Number 10 for Showdown Cabinet

Cabinet is ongoing at the time of going to pixel. 81 MPs (and counting) have called for Starmer to go. To be a fly on the wall in Number 10…

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Guido Fawkes11 May 2026

Growing Labour Calls for Starmer to Resign Reach the Frontbench

PPSs are calling for Starmer to go now. Track it here: As Labour Wars today noted there are expectations among Downing Street sources that Starmer could be convinced to resign/set out a timetable for his exit if Wes goes over the top or the Cabinet speaks with enough co-ordination. Wes allies are going over the…

PoliticsDefence
Guido Fawkes11 May 2026

British Borrowing Costs Rise on Day of Rickety Labour Coup

UK gilt yields are up today as Labour MPs consider whether to push Starmer out of No10: 2-year gilt: 4.482% (+9.9bp) 10-year gilt: 5.009% (+9.7bp) 30-year gilt: 5.677% (+9.7bp) Yields are running at roughly double the increase rates of Eurozone and US Treasury bonds. Manchesterism looms…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes11 May 2026

More Than 570 Sectarian-Style Candidates Win Seats in Local Elections

According to the Henry Jackson Society (HJS), 572 sectarian-style candidates were elected across 58 councils and two Mayoralties in this year’s local elections. A number that may rise to 574 by the close of play today once Birmingham City Council completes a final count… Here is the party breakdown: • Green Party – 350 elected…

PoliticsEnvironment
Guido Fawkes11 May 2026

Stalking Horse Catherine West Says She Accidentally Called for September Leadership Contest

Catherine West has said she made a mistake in her letter to Labour MPs by saying a leadership contest should take place “in September.” The phrase headless chicken comes to mind… She told POLITICO: “I shouldn’t have written ‘in’ [September], I should have written ‘by’.” Her proposal is for a contest to begin “soon” and be…

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Guido Fawkes11 May 2026

No10: Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman Will Not Attend Cabinet

Downing Street has admitted Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman will not attend Cabinet in their unpaid, potemkin roles as ‘Special Envoy on Global Finance and Cooperation’ and Adviser on Women and Girls’ respectively. As was obvious the moment these positions were announced, they exist purely as a firefighting exercise. A bit like bringing a water…

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Guido Fawkes11 May 2026

Stalking Horse Catherine West Petitions for Leadership Contest in September

Weekend stalking horse Catherine West’s message to Labour MPs just now: “I have listened to the Prime Minister’s speech this morning. I welcome the renewed energy and ideas. However, I have reluctantly concluded that this morning’s speech was too little too late. The results last Thursday show that the PM has failed to inspire hope.…

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Guido Fawkes11 May 2026

Sadiq Khan Attacks Reeves and Mahmood, Says Burnham Should Enter Commons

Sadiq Khan has done an interview with ex-New Statesman hack George Eaton’s new magazine. Khan has laid out his personal platform: Rejoin the EU: “A general election victory would give us a mandate to rejoin the European Union, we should have it on the ballot paper: a vote for Labour is a vote to rejoin.”…

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Guido Fawkes11 May 2026

Peter Kyle: Burnham Should Not Return Before Next General Election

Peter Kyle on Sky News this morning, acting as Number 10’s ambassador from the bunker: “Andy Burnham left Westminster to go to Manchester, and he made a series of promises. I think promises matter…” Kyle also reckons Starmer should serve another eight years in Downing Street. He doubled down on LBC: “[Burnham] chose to leave…

Politics
Guido Fawkes10 May 2026

Rayner Calls for Burnham’s Return as Leadership Hype Explodes

The state of play currently: Rayner’s first public remarks since Labour’s local election defeat: She calls on Starmer to end a “toxic culture of cronyism.” Says Labour must tack left: “What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance.” Warns Labour is “in danger of becoming a…

PoliticsDefenceHousing
Guido Fawkes10 May 2026

Phillipson Admits Labour’s “Shortcomings” But Insists Starmer Will Still Be PM at Election

An exasperated Bridget Phillipson speaking to Laura Kuenssberg: “We’ve had a real kicking. Keir knows that, I know that… I’m not going to come on here and say that there aren’t big and serious national issues that we have to address. We can, and we will. But I just do not believe that the message…

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Guido Fawkes10 May 2026

Catherine West: “We Have a Problem, We Have to Move Quickly”

Labour MP Catherine West on Sky News: “What I want the Cabinet to do is to close themselves into a room today and come up with somebody who they can all get behind, which would mean we wouldn’t have to have a leadership election.  “And if that can happen, then we can have a very…

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