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Guido Fawkes13 Aug 2026

HMRC’s Main Whitehall Office Empties Every Friday

New figures obtained by Guido’s FOI Unit show that HMRC’s flagship Whitehall headquarters at 100 Parliament Street is barely a fifth full on working Fridays. This is despite an insistence that staff spend at least 60% of their time in the office… The data covers every working day from April 2025 to March 2026. Over…

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Guido Fawkes13 Aug 2026

Burnham’s Approval Rating Drops by Six Points

More in Common’s tracker of party leader approval ratings has seen Burnham drop by six points. It’s nothing, they’re telling themselves in Downing Street… High early ratings usually come from people not knowing who you are. Burnham is now down from 20 points to fourteen. He’s still above the rest… Badenoch is positive on +1…

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Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

Government Hires for Propriety Chief After Leaving Post Vacant for a Year

The Director General for Propriety and Constitution Group post has been vacant for a year. The government is only now bothering to fill it… The Cabinet Office are advertising for a “Director General, Propriety and Constitution.” Cabinet Secretary Antonia Romeo says she is “seeking an individual with an outstanding record of leadership, with good judgement and…

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Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

WATCH: Farage to Give Yusuf a ‘Ticking Off’ After He Branded Ben Wallace ‘Traitor’

Farage told the Sun’s political editor Jack Elsom that Zia Yusuf would get a dressing down for referring to former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace as a “traitor” in his X posts last night: “That is too strong language. I shall give him a ticking off… I’ll speak to him today, but it’s over the top.”…

PoliticsDefenceReform
Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

Shadow Cabinet Rankings: Badenoch Up Again

ConHome’s latest Shadow Cabinet rankings have Badenoch extending favourability among Tory members since May, with Shadow Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho pipping Shadow Justice Sec Nick Timothy to second place. At the bottom of the list, Stuart Andrew has come out of single digits, and Priti Patel is heading that way… Net Change 1 Kemi Badenoch…

PoliticsReform
Guido Fawkes10 Aug 2026

MoJ Advised Exempting Early Releases Based on Length of Sentences, Not Offence Type

Burnham’s Downing Street is in no good mood with officials from the MoJ over exemptions in the early release scheme. It’s falling apart… Guido understands there is fury at Ministry of Justice officials, who have been accused of incompetence for coming up with changing capacity numbers in the prison estate. They are concerned that the…

PoliticsReformCrime
Guido Fawkes10 Aug 2026

Burnham Adviser Refuses to Join No10 Because He Fears Wealth Tax

The Times reports that Jim O’Neill, one of the economic advisers brought on by Team Burnham to calm the markets during the Makerfield by-election, is refusing to join No10 partly because he fears it will impose a wealth tax. Doesn’t fill you with confidence, does it? O’Neill is a former economist for Goldman Sachs and…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes7 Aug 2026

Guido Whispers: Back of the Queue…

Guido Fawkes members get access to Guido Whispers, our exclusive insiders-only newsletter revealing all the latest gossip and tittle-tattle swirling around Westminster. To read it, become a Guido member today. Sign up here and get all the gossip first…

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Guido Fawkes7 Aug 2026

NHS and Cabinet Office Trade Blame Over Single-Sex Space Rules

The NHS is refusing to give a date for implementing new single-sex space guidance, leaving rules that let transgender patients choose their ward in place two days after the EHRC published its code on protected spaces. You’d think medical professionals would have a clear understanding of biological sex… Existing guidance tells staff to accommodate patients…

PoliticsDefenceHealthcare
Guido Fawkes6 Aug 2026

Government Commissioned Its Own Vape For Prisoners to Prevent Fires in Jails

The Ministry of Justice is now dishing out redesigned vapes to prisoners to stop them setting fire to their cells. You’re paying for it… In response to a written parliamentary question on vape-related fires, justice minister Lord Lemos revealed: “The level of fire risk associated with prisoner possession of vape devices is continuously monitored through…

PoliticsReformCrime
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…

PoliticsDefence
Guido Fawkes5 Aug 2026

Reform Reports Former Neo-Nazi Tory Council Candidate to Electoral Commission

Reform has said that its barristers have reported Joshua Bonehill-Paine, the prospective council candidate in the Crewkerne South by-election, to the Electoral Commission. They want the quango to intervene… Reform says: “The party has queried whether AI videos published by him on the ‘Crewkerne Man’ and ‘Crewkerne Gazette’ accounts has been commissioned on behalf of…

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