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Guido Fawkes30 Mar 2026

Labour Begins Negotiating Permanent Mechanism to Hand Taxpayer Cash to EU

The European Council has approved Labour’s rejoining the EU’s Erasmus scheme for 2027 this morning. Higher taxes to pay billions to the bloc… That means two new negotiations are starting. One on placing the UK inside the EU’s internal electricity market – which will likely entail massive rule-taking and bill rises – and one on…

Economy
Guido Fawkes27 Mar 2026

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Blasts Financial Times for “Explicitly False Story”

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has given the FT both barrels over their “explicitly false story” which claimed he had considered strengthening Treasury oversight of the Federal Reserve “in the Bank of England’s image“. Bessent described the paper as “tabloid trash”… “Despite my direct, on-the-record denial of ever having advocated, explored, or espoused the idea…

Economy
Guido Fawkes26 Mar 2026

OECD Cuts UK Growth Forecast to 0.7%, Inflation to Skyrocket

The Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has slashed the UK’s growth forecast by half a percent, down to just 0.7%. The biggest hit in the entire G20… Inflation is also predicted to soar to 4%, double the Bank of England’s target. Britain is the most exposed of any advanced economy to the Iran…

Economy
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