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Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

WATCH: Burnham Fails to Guarantee PC Harper’s Killers Will Stay Behind Bars

Burnham has said it’s all on his Justice Secretary now when it comes to early release. He also failed to guarantee that PC Harper’s two killers won’t be released early: “What I have said is that I believe we can go much further, and I hope we can get to a position where people who…

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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…

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Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

YOUGOV: Labour Overtakes Reform for First Time in 18 Months

Labour is now two points ahead of Reform in YouGov’s latest polling, on 24% compared to 22% respectively. Reform’s lowest score since March 2025… Labour: 24% (+2 from 2-3 Aug) Reform UK: 22% (-1) Conservatives: 21% (+2) Greens: 12% (-1) Lib Dems: 11% (-1) Restore Britain: 4% (=) SNP: 3% (+1) Plaid Cymru: 2% (+1)…

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Guido Fawkes11 Aug 2026

No10 Insists It May Not Actually Be Able to U-Turn Early Release of PC Harper’s Killers

No10 is in a bind this morning as it is forced to remind its own ministers that Burnham has only ‘instructed’ Justice Secretary Alex Norris to find a way to keep Andrew Harper’s killers behind bars by September. Thus throwing him under the bus if it fails – but it’s too clever by half… Angela…

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Guido Fawkes10 Aug 2026

Sumption Takes Aim at Burnham’s Constitutional Reform Plans

The latest pronouncement from No10 North is that Britain needs major constitutional reform as part of Burnham’s ‘circuit breaker’ philosophy. Trying to style himself as the new Blair… Enter former Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption who took no prisoners in the Telegraph over the weekend: “A written constitution… would have to deal with the whole…

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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…

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Guido Fawkes10 Aug 2026

LIVE: Farage & Yusuf Announce Plan to Free Up Prison Places

Farage and Zia Yusuf are live to announce their plan to free up 10,000 prison places by deporting foreign criminals who are in prison in the UK. If they can’t be repatriated securely, they will be put in rented prisons abroad in places like El Salvador… Read the policy in full here:

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Guido Fawkes7 Aug 2026

Reform Launches High Court Action Against NCA Over Alleged Banking Leaks

Reform’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice has announced on TalkTV that the party is launching High Court action against the National Crime Agency over the alleged leaking of private banking data: “Nigel and I believe that the National Crime Agency have committed multiple criminal offences… they leaked copies and details of individual bank statements, bank transfers,…

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Guido Fawkes6 Aug 2026

Burnham Scrambles to Close Rape Gang Early Release Loophole

Andy Burnham has ordered the Ministry of Justice to comb through paper records to exclude any rape gang offenders from walking free from prison early, after The Times reported some were inexplicably not excluded from the early release scheme. The ‘Roll-Royce’ British state in action… Burnham announced on Tuesday that anyone convicted of rape, serious…

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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…

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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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