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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Labour’s Benefit Boost and Public Sector Handouts Would More Than Pay for Defence Spending Uplift

Labour’s funding to increase benefits and award hyper-generous pay packages to public sector workers more than covers the gap between what defence figures now want for national security and what Reeves is prepared to spend. When they told you politics is about choices… The Times reports that Reeves is prepared to make room for less…

PoliticsDefence
Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Labour’s Asylum Hotel Closures Hit Reform Battlegrounds Weeks Before Polling Day

The Home Office yesterday closed 11 asylum seeker hotels across 10 constituencies. Seven are Labour-held. Six of those seats are projected to swing to Reform. The May 7th local elections happen to be 22 days away… 1. Banbury House Hotel, Banbury, Oxfordshire LAB ▸ REF 2. Britannia Hotel, Wolverhampton LAB ▸ REF 3. Madeley Court…

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Guido Fawkes14 Apr 2026

Starmer’s £15,000 of Furniture Purchases for Downing Street Flat

Guido’s FOI Unit has obtained the full set of purchases Starmer made for his flat of residence on Downing Street. Totalling over £15,000… Downing Street says the “Government is legally required to maintain the Downing Street buildings to the high standards appropriate to its Grade 1 and 2 listed status in consultation with Historic England.…

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Guido Fawkes14 Apr 2026

The Right Angle: On Your Marx…

Welcome back to the Right Angle, the insiders’ guide on the what’s happening on the British right. Exclusively for Guido members – click here to join us today… With nominations now closed for the May 7th elections, attention is turning to the more colourful candidates on the ballot paper. Step forward Marx de Morais, standing…

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Guido Fawkes14 Apr 2026

Southport Inquiry Recommends VPN Ban for Children

The Phase 1 report of the Southport Inquiry, which came out yesterday, has recommended exploring a partial ban on Virtual Private Networks. There is a big campaign on for this in Parliament… The report was scathing of agencies and Axel Rudakubana’s family, and concluded that the murders were entirely preventable. Let’s hope the institutional failures…

PoliticsCrime
Guido Fawkes14 Apr 2026

Government’s “Pampered” EU Unit Staff Treated to Away Day Before Starmer Reset Push

As Labour gears up to trumpet its cession of more sovereignty to the EU the Cabinet Office has treated its ‘EU Reset Unit’ staff to an away day. Relax while you can, you’re the gambit that’s meant to save Starmer’s premiership now… The ‘EU Relations Secretariat’ in the Cabinet Office numbers around 80 staff and…

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Guido Fawkes14 Apr 2026

Labour MP Vows to Bring Sex Toys Into Parliament

Yes, the headline is real. Labour MP Samantha Niblett has declared 2026 the “summer of sex”, and is launching a sex education campaign with “sextech” entrepreneur Cindy Gallop to ‘talk more openly’ about carnal pleasures. To that end, Niblett is promising to bring sex toys into Parliament to ‘encourage open conversation’. Parliament already has a…

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Guido Fawkes14 Apr 2026

Government Greenlights Politico Owner’s Telegraph Purchase

German Politico owner Axel Springer’s £575 million purchase of the Telegraph has been approved by the government. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said in a written Commons statement: “In my quasi-judicial role I have assessed the proposed merger between Axel Springer and the Telegraph Media Group Holdings Ltd under the public interest media mergers regime and…

PoliticsEnvironment
Guido Fawkes13 Apr 2026

Tory Councillor Drops Party Name and Goes for Reform Colours in Local Election Pamphlets

As the local elections approach some councillors are deploying the usual creative thinking when it comes to scoring votes. A common method is to strategically forego any mention of your own party… Over in Essex of all places Tory councillor Ross Playle is going for some Reform-style colouring on the top of his main pamphlet…

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Guido Fawkes13 Apr 2026

British Progressives Fawn Over Victory of Anti-Immigration Hungarian Nationalist

Péter Magyar’s election victory has stirred the hearts of left-wing liberal media in the UK. It’s quite the phenomenon… Alistair Campbell remarked this afternoon that Magyar “matched the strategy to the needs of the time” and Emily Maitlis said: “Young people spurred on by the need to see their country change.” You can sense the…

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Guido Fawkes13 Apr 2026

LIVE: Starmer Makes Commons Statement on Middle East

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Guido Fawkes13 Apr 2026

Labour Doesn’t Bother Trying to Recruit New Government Propriety Chief

Traumatised Labour has not yet started the recruitment process for a new director general in the Propriety and Constitution Group of the Cabinet Office. This is usually a powerful role for a civil servant which can decide political fates and deals with a lot of sensitive events in the day-to-day of Whitehall… The post was…

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