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Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

Assisted Suicide Bill Sponsors Embarrass Themselves and Alienate Colleagues

It’s all going wrong for the MPs behind reintroducing the Assisted Suicide Bill in this session. Peter Bedford, one of the MPs to sponsor Lauren Edwards MP’s Private Members Bill – which has Labour MPs tearing their hair out – has been whinging online about “misleading” reporting of his comments to a constituent over the…

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Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

Burnham’s Unregistered Data Gathering Website Run by Non-Existent Company

Andy Burnham may be measuring the No10 curtains but he hasn’t done all the legal tidying up before he returns to high office. He’s trying to gather email addresses through his campaign site, which could well be useful in any Labour leadership election… The site’s privacy policy nominates “Office of Andy Burnham Ltd” as the…

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Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

Guido Whispers: The Return of… Matt Hancock?

What do Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart really think of each other? Which news broadcaster is launching its own staff ‘academy’? And which ex-Cabinet minister is role-playing as the Prime Minister for a reality TV show (with Matt Hancock as his trusty Foreign Secretary)? To find out, become a Guido member today. Sign up here…

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Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

Starmer Fights for Survival as Burnham Eyes September Takeover

Starmer has just held a call with Labour staff in a panicked attempt to head off talk of Burnham’s inevitable leadership challenge. He has also been ringing Cabinet ministers to urge them against jumping ship. Desperate… He added that the party should now “take Reform on” after Burnham’s comfortable Makerfield win: “The tide is turning…

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Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

New Starmer Adviser Harriet Harman Backs Labour MPs’ Leadership Vote

Harriet Harman has told the Today programme she thinks Starmer, Burnham and Streeting should agree on a ‘process’ for a leadership contest, and Labour MPs should have the final say. Just six weeks ago, Starmer appointed Harman as his new ‘Adviser on Women and Girls’ in the wake of Labour’s local election bloodbath. Now she’s…

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Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

Andy Burnham Wins the Makerfield By-Election

Turnout 58.75%. 52.4% at the 2024 general election. The second highest in a by-election since 2000… Burnham got 24,937 votes vs Rob Kenyon’s 15,696. 9,241 majority… The 2024 Labour majority was 5,399. 997 votes for the Tory… Rebecca Shepherd of Restore Britain got 3,111 votes. Team Burnham plans no “rash” action this weekend and will…

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Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

Tories Win Aberdeen South From SNP in By-Election

The Tories’ first by-election win in Scotland since 1967. John Curtice: “It’s almost undoubtedly been able to encapsulate concern about the future of Aberdeen and the oil and gas industry which has given it so much prosperity during the whole era of North Sea exploration.” The Tories won 14,308 votes to the SNP’s 8,258. Labour…

PoliticsReform
Guido Fawkes18 Jun 2026

John Bercow Campaigning for Burnham Despite Labour Suspension

John Bercow is leafletting for the Burnham campaign up in Makerfield today, despite his ongoing suspension from the Labour Party pending an internal investigation into bullying claims. This must be the most forensic investigation in British history, because it has been ongoing for 1,564 days (over 4 years in old money). Even though a parliamentary…

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Guido Fawkes18 Jun 2026

Justice Minister Jake Richards Deletes Anti-Burnham Tweets

Justice minister Jake Richards has deleted a swathe of historic tweets critical of Andy Burnham. Along with the rest of the Parliamentary Labour Party doing a digital spring clean… Richards was up in Makerfield on Saturday to campaign for Burnham, despite having said that the Manchester mayor despite thinking is “jezza-lite” and “has the antenna…

PoliticsReform
Guido Fawkes18 Jun 2026

Government ‘Strongly Minded’ to Fully Nationalise British Steel

Labour says it is “strongly minded” to nationalise British Steel. In a statement made this morning by the industry ministeR: “The Government committed to updating Parliament on British Steel every four sitting weeks for the duration of the period of special measures being applied under the Steel Industry (Special Measures) Act 2025. The Government’s priority…

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Guido Fawkes17 Jun 2026

WATCH: Protesters and Hounds Oppose Labour’s Hunting Ban in Westminster

Anti-hunting ban campaigners descended on Westminster tonight. Hounds and all… The protesters gathered on on Marsham Street for a protest organised by the Countryside Alliance outside the DEFRA offices, where Labour peer Baroness Mallalieu attacked the government for being out of touch. Protesters held banners bearing the slogans “hands off the countryside” and “fight the…

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Guido Fawkes17 Jun 2026

Team Burnham Declines Starmer’s Offer of a Cabinet Job for Andy

Andy Burnham’s team has already hit back after Starmer said this morning that he wants Burnham to have a big role in government. A source in the Burnham camp told the Manchester Evening News that “the benefit Andy has is the wind of change for not having been associated with the Government’s failings.”  They also…

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