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Guido Fawkes6 Aug 2026

Tories Lay Trap for Labour With Vote to Stop Early Release of PC Harper’s Killers

Thames Valley Tory police and crime commissioner Matthew Barber has produced draft legislation that would stop the early release of PC Andrew Harper’s killers. Those “serving a sentence of imprisonment for manslaughter … against an emergency worker” would be barred from release. So it’s not ‘wrong’ and unlawful and is in fact that easy? The…

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Guido Fawkes6 Aug 2026

IN FULL: The State of the Parties’ Finances

The Electoral Commission has published the full accounts of all parties for 2025. Here are the results for membership and donation income, compared with (election year) 2024. A predictable collapse in donations for Labour, a surge for Reform, and a decline for the Tories. All to play for heading towards the next election – it’s…

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Guido Fawkes6 Aug 2026

WATCH: BBC’s Arday-Sympathetic Resignation Report

The BBC’s reporting of Jason Arday’s resignation curiously includes details in his defence and has largely ignored the many well-reported points against him. He’s resigned lads – no need to defend him any more… The BBC’s 10 p.m. report on his resignation focused on the fact that the original allegations of plagiarism were made by…

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Guido Fawkes5 Aug 2026

Miliband Says Anti-Trident Pro-Chagos Surrender Lawyer Is “Ideal Candidate” for International Court of Justice

Ed Miliband – who is now heading to DC to meet with Rubio – found time yesterday to record a video showering a former Corbyn adviser who opposed the UK’s claim to the Chagos Islands with praise. Welcome to Ed’s Foreign Office… Dapo Akande was put forward for election to the International Court of Justice…

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Guido Fawkes5 Aug 2026

No10 Walks Back Justice Ministers’ Epstein Inquiry Claims

According to Sky News, No10 is not ‘actively considering’ a public inquiry into Jeffrey Epstein and his UK sex trafficking, despite two justice ministers saying in the last twelve hours that it was on the cards. Alex Davies-Jones claimed Burnham was “looking into it” last night, with Jake Richards doubling down just this morning. Here…

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Guido Fawkes3 Aug 2026

Labour Wars: Burnham’s First Fortnight…

To get the inside track on what Burnham’s really up to, become a Guido member. Fawkes Friends and Premium Plotters also receive priority tickets to all our events, like our recent debate, Is Britain Broken, featuring Zia Yusuf, Fraser Nelson, and David Frost. Click here to become a member today… As ever, cracks emerge once…

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Guido Fawkes31 Jul 2026

Burnham’s Assisted Suicide Intervention Likely Fatal for Revived Bill

The new Prime Minister has rejected calls from assisted suicide lobbyists, stating that it’s not the right time for a debate on legalising the practice. He’s moving the numbers on the Bill Lauren Edwards brought back to parliament… Kim Leadbeater’s Bill passed Third Reading last year by 23 votes. If 12 MPs switch sides, the…

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Guido Fawkes31 Jul 2026

BBC Mistakes 50,000 Migrants Crossing Into Spain for ‘Hundreds’

The BBC’s headline yesterday as thousands marched and swam from Morocco into Ceuta, one of two Spanish enclaves in North Africa, stated the figure as “hundreds.” That has been quickly remedied – someone get the Verify team on the case… Spanish authorities are sending the military to deal with the total breakdown at its border…

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Guido Fawkes30 Jul 2026

Labour Says It Is Trying to Push Ahead on Chagos Deal With USA

After Guido revealed the new Chagos minister campaigned for the islands to be used as a back door for illegal immigration to the UK the Burnham government is signalling it wants to move forward with the surrender deal. Continuity Starmerism… This week Tory peer Baroness Finn asked the government what the status is of the…

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Guido Fawkes30 Jul 2026

The Five Government Ministers Who Voted Against Trident Renewal

Further to Guido’s reporting earlier today on Louise Haigh, it is only fair to mention that she is not the only sitting government minister who voted against renewing Britain’s nuclear defences in 2016. All while Burnham reheats a previous announcement to prove how serious he is about this… Angela Rayner, Lisa Nandy, Ian Murray and…

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Guido Fawkes30 Jul 2026

Streeting Says Borrowing Costs Would Rise If He Backed 3% Defence Spending

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has worked out his excuse for refusing to say the UK will meet its target of 3% defence spending by 2030, which Healey resigned over. He told Sky News: “Let’s say for argument’s sake, I just said yes, we will by 2030 meet 3%. The inevitable next question is: how will…

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Guido Fawkes30 Jul 2026

Defence Committee Finds £850 Million Secret Afghan Resettlement Failure Was Preventable

The Commons’ Defence Select Committee has published its findings into the Afghan resettlement and data breach which led to the secret resettlement of 7,355 people in the UK. The total cost for that: £850 million… The committee found: The MoD has refused to verify that £850 million figure, and journalists who saw the closed court…

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