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Guido Fawkes23 Apr 2026

Taxpayer Forks Out Tens of Thousands to Advertise Labour Digital ID on Podcasts

The government is advertising its consultation on Digital ID on podcasts. A project led by Darren Jones, who wants ideas… Jones said that government consultations were fake, unlike this one, which was launched on 10 March: “This consultation is not a performative consultation. It’s a genuine one. That’s why we’re not just doing a kind…

Economy
Guido Fawkes23 Apr 2026

Government Can Name Progress on Only 19% of Strategic Defence Review Recommendations

Defence ministers can only name progress on 12 out of the 62 recommendations in the Strategic Defence Review. The rest have presumably not begun implementation... Asked how many of the SDR’s recommendations have begun implementation, defence minister Luke Pollard said “significant progress has been made since the SDR was published last June” and provided a…

Defence
Guido Fawkes23 Apr 2026

Faulty HMS Dragon Stuck at Port in Crete for an Entire Month

HMS Dragon – Britain’s only high-end destroyer in the Middle East region – has now spent a full month at Souda Bay in Crete, 920 kilometres away. It arrived there on 23 March after a short patrol of Cyprus… Dragon’s operation has been marred by what the MoD said was a “minor technical issue” which…

Guido Fawkes23 Apr 2026

Blue Labour Ringleader: We Have to Look at Where Next After the Locals

Speaking to BBC Newsnight the Blue Labour group’s primary ringleader Dan Carden suggested that the local elections will be game over for Starmer. Asked if he had confidence in the PM, Carden said: “He’ll take us into the local elections and I think that will be a moment where the public have been consulted and…

Politics
Guido Fawkes23 Apr 2026

LIVE: Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary Launches Counter-Attack on Sacked Robbins

Cat Little is up at the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. A key actor in the Mandelson drama…

Politics
Guido Fawkes23 Apr 2026

Tories Push for Starmer to be Referred to the Privileges Committee Over Commons Claims

The Tories, supported by the LibDems and the SNP, are pressing Lindsay Hoyle to refer Starmer to the Privileges Committee. Sound familiar? Badenoch claims Starmer misled the house by saying “due process” was followed in the Mandelson appointment. Starmer also claimed in the Commons with regard to Olly Robbins and Mandelson’s appointment that “no pressure…

Politics
Guido Fawkes23 Apr 2026

UK’s National Crime Agency Reviewed Fresh Mandelson-Epstein Claims in 2024

The FT reports the National Crime Agency (NCA) reviewed fresh allegations about Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein as late as spring 2024, just months before Starmer appointed him as US ambassador. Downing Street was informed in the summer of 2024… A senior British official arranged a meeting between the NCA and an American human rights activist…

PoliticsCrime
Guido Fawkes22 Apr 2026

LIVE: Farage ‘Keynote’ Local Election Speech

Farage is at the Dodworth Central Social Club to make his “keynote campaign speech” of the local elections after a UK-wide tour. Watch along…

PoliticsReform
Guido Fawkes22 Apr 2026

VOTE NOW: The Guido Fawkes Reform Power Rankings (April Edition)

Every month, we’ll publish the power rankings of all the leading lights in the party based on our readers’ responses. Click here to fill in the survey, and the results will be published at the end of the month. Here’s how last month played out… 1 Nigel Farage 10.68 2 Richard Tice 8.52 3 Danny…

Reform
Guido Fawkes22 Apr 2026

DSIT Staff Hike Taxpayer-Funded Hotel Use by Almost a Third in One Year

Civil servants at Liz Kendall’s Department of Science, Innovation, and Technology have spent more than 2,000 more nights in hotels this year. At a commensurate cost to the taxpayer… Guido’s FOI Unit has found that DSIT staff have spent almost £1.5 million on hotel stays in 2025/26 so far compared to only £1.1 million in…

Economy
Guido Fawkes22 Apr 2026

Simon’s Sketch: Starmer Turns the Tables on Critics With Surprise Witness

K vs K, 25th day in the Mandelson case. How was it for you? Did your inner Hulk exult in the squalling storm of Kemi as she smashed into our prime minister and pulped him into a bloody pullulating mess?

Guido Fawkes22 Apr 2026

Andy Burnham Copies Rayner With London Campaign Spree

Ambitious Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham is campaigning in London with allies of Angela Rayner. Politics Home reports that Burnham is to head to Islington and Lewisham to do some door-to-door campaigning. Curiously Guido can report that three days after Angela Rayner went door-knocking in Peckham with leftist housing minister Miatta Fahbulleh, Burnham is doing…

PoliticsHousing