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Guido Fawkes17 Apr 2026

Mandelson’s Vetting Timeline Does Not Add Up With Starmer’s Claims

We know Mandelson was given developed vetting (even though it now emerges he had failed) on 6th January 2025. He was pictured in the street with a DV level pass with that issue date. What has transpired since then? On 11 September 2025 The Independent’s Political Editor asked Downing Street to comment on claims Mandelson…

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Guido Fawkes17 Apr 2026

FLASHBACK: Starmer Claims Mandelson PASSED Security Vetting

Starmer on the record, in full view of the media, on 5th February: “There was then… security vetting carried out independently by the security services, which is an intensive exercise … that gave [Mandelson] clearance for the role.” A day earlier, Badenoch asked him in the Commons if “the security vetting he received mention[ed] Mandelson’s…

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Guido Fawkes17 Apr 2026

Darren Jones Claims “Furious” Starmer Did Not Mislead Parliament Over Mandelson Appointment

The key lines from Darren Jones’s spin operation on the morning round: Labour insists Starmer did NOT mislead Parliament because the ‘process’ (Starmer’s favourite word) that existed at the time was technically followed, so saying “due process was followed” to the House was correct. Right… Mandelson failing security vetting and the Foreign Office overruling it…

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Guido Fawkes16 Apr 2026

Rumours Team Streeting Offered Yvette Cooper Job of Chancellor

Downing Street is in meltdown over the news that Mandelson failed security vetting. The latest well-sourced tale doing the rounds in SW1 is that Team Streeting offered Yvette Cooper the chancellorship if she backed Wes. This was around the time Anas Sarwar went over the top and called for Starmer to go. A fluid situation…

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Guido Fawkes16 Apr 2026

Bursting the Bubble Gets a Makeover…

Welcome to new-look Bursting the Bubble, the data deep-dive that tells you what’s really happening outside the Westminster village. Exclusively for Guido members… Not a member? Click here to join…

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Guido Fawkes16 Apr 2026

Mandelson Failed Security Vetting: Starmer’s Excuse for Appointment Explodes

The Guardian reports that UK Security Vetting services actually denied Peter Mandelson clearance for Developed Vetting after the usual process. That decision was overruled. A nuclear bomb has just detonated inside Starmer’s main excuse for appointing and defending Mandelson… This rejection came after a due diligence process by the Cabinet Office Propriety and Ethics team…

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Guido Fawkes16 Apr 2026

Rayner to Hit London Campaign Trail With Favourite Leftist Minister

Rayner is picking her local election campaign partners carefully. Only allies… Housing minister Miatta Fahnbulleh has been sending out the invites to Labour members with the title: “Get the Vote Out with Anegla Rayner & Miatta Fahnbulleh.“ Yes, that is her typo – so much for friendship… Fahnbulleh is former chief executive of the leftist…

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Guido Fawkes16 Apr 2026

Downing Street Refuses to Back Streeting’s Call to Cut Welfare to Boost Defence Spending

Number 10’s spokesman today, asked if Starmer supports Wes Streeting’s call to slash welfare spending to fund defence: “The best way to get the welfare bill down in the long term is to support more people into work and I’ve set out a number of ways in which we’re doing that… we are committed to…

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Guido Fawkes16 Apr 2026

WATCH: Starmer Reads Entirely From Notes to Meeting of Seven People

Starmer struggled through his opening remarks on child safety at a Downing Street meeting of social media executives this morning. What was it like when the cameras stopped rolling… This is what Starmer had to say: “But things can’t go on like this. They must change. Because right now social media is putting our children…

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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Green Party Fails to Delete Candidate’s Videos ‘Blaming Israel’ for Bondi Beach Tragedy and Attack on RAF Base

A Green candidate in the local elections has failed to delete numerous videos on his social media despite the party promising they would be removed. The party has also kept him on as a candidate despite being alerted to his posts by the press days before close of nominations last Thursday… Mark Adderley, a Green…

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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Simon’s Sketch: Our National Embarrassment Red Faced With Anger and Possibly Shame

The Sketch will always speak up for the underdog – the disparaged, the dismissed, the bullied, the vulnerable. President Tump has few supporters in Parliament these days, so in the spirit of Ofcom, let us try for some balance. Ed Davey referred to the President threatening to rip up the UK’s trade deal as a…

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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Government Considers Early Prorogation of Parliament

The King’s Speech – opening the new parliamentary session – is on 13 May, just days after the Local Elections on the 7th of the month. Guido hears the government is considering an early prorogation of parliament – potentially as early as Tuesday… Briefings fired at the time the State Opening of Parliament was confirmed…

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