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Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

UK Millionaire Numbers Fall to Lowest Level Since Financial Crisis

New research from the Adam Smith Institute shows the number of millionaires residing in the UK is at its lowest level since the global financial crisis. Labour policies having their intended effect then… The think tank’s Millionaire Tracker now shows that there are 442,000 sterling millionaires in Britain, down by 7% since 2024. It says:…

Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

Labour Whips Vow ‘Culture Change’ as PPSs Get Beefed-Up Role

Chief Whip Anneliese Midgley has written to Labour MPs this afternoon following the appointment of ministers’ Parliamentary Private Secretaries (PPSs). She is promising “greater opportunities to undertake media and parliamentary activity, including on national policy”: “Dear Colleague, During his first week in office, the Prime Minister has been clear about his determination to change the…

Politics
Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

EXC: Lucy Powell Goes on Holiday Three Days After Starting New Job & Visits Zero Schools

Guido understands that the new Education Secretary jetted off for sunnier climes on Thursday last week. Three days after taking up post… She is due back today or tomorrow. How is Mallorca at this time of year? Powell will have a quote in the technical education policy release to go out from No10 in the…

Education
Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

PPS Reshuffle List In Full

10 Downing Street: Sir Nic Dakin David Baines Jo Platt Cabinet Office: Alan Gemmell Dr Beccy Cooper Natasha Irons HM Treasury: John Grady Alistair Strathern Yuan Yang Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Anna Gelderd Laura Kyrke-Smith Chris Murray Home Office: Michael Payne Adam Thompson Chris Vince Ministry of Justice: Linsey Farnsworth Joe Powell Connor Rand…

PoliticsEconomyReform
Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

Energy Secretary Backed Compulsory Four-Day Week for Everyone

Miatta Fahnbulleh, while chief executive of the New Economics Foundation, wrote an impassioned essay in 2019 called “the Neoliberal Collapse” in favour of her “green new deal” proposals. Here are some extracts: “Just like the economic breakdown that has chipped away at people’s quality of life, environmental decline is rooted in the crisis of capitalism.…

EconomyEnvironment
Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

More in Common: Burnham Bounce Ends Reform’s 15-Month Streak

More in Common gives Labour its first lead since March 2025 & highest share of voting intention since November of 2024: LAB 28% (+4) REF 24% (-2) CON 22% (nc LIB DEM 12% (+1  GREEN 8% (-3) SNP 2% (nc) 2,601 adults polled from the 24th to the 27th July. Changes from the 22nd. Reform’s…

Environment
Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

No10 Admits It Is Still Working With Mauritius on Chagos Sellout

The latest from No10 on the Chagos sellout: “We continue to work with the US and Mauritius to find a way forward that’s in the UK’s best interest and protects our national security…” Last week the spokesman refused to guarantee Chagos’s sovereignty. Now No10 admits it is working with Mauritius. Sign Guido’s petition to stop it here…

Defence
Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

Labour MP Kate Osborne Doubles Down on GB News Rant After Berlin Pride Attack

Labour MP Kate Osborne has doubled down on her claims last night that GB News and Reform were “spouting nonsense and broadcasting content and language that attacks and vilifies the LGBTQ+ community” in the wake of the Berlin Pride terror attack over the weekend. Rather than conceding that a hysterical rant about GB News the…

Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

Burnham’s Property Tax Proposals Would Destroy Rental Market

According to the i Paper Burnham is considering whether to implement one of two taxes: “Two models are competing for support: a proportional property tax, which would replace both council tax and stamp duty with a flat 0.48 per cent annual charge on a home’s current value; or a land value tax – an annual…

EconomyHousing
Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

EXC: Burnham Could Swerve Downing Street Council Tax Bill by Keeping His Primary Residence In Manchester

If Andy Burnham registers his Manchester home as his main residence, the council tax on his Downing Street flat would fall to the taxpayer rather than the PM. Saving Burnham a handy £2000 a year… As then-Cabinet Office minister Ruth Anderson said in a written PQ answer last year: “…where a minister occupies an official…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

WATCH: EU Relations Minister Suggests Rejoining Could Be On Next Labour Manifesto

The new Intergovernmental Relations and European Relations minister, Hamish Falconer, has suggested that rejoining the EU could be on the next Labour manifesto. That’s what they’re von der Sayin’… Falconer said of Starmer’s ‘reset’ efforts that he wants “to consolidate some of that work, but we also need to see how we can go further.”…