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Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

Bursting the Bubble: One Month to Go…

Welcome to Bursting the Bubble-  the weekly guide to the polls, the numbers and the elections that matter. A series so good, Angela Rayner stole its name for her podcast. Become a member now to get access to Guido’s poll of polls and all the latest data… Just four weeks until the locals…

Politics
Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

Labour Bulldozes Through Overwhelming Employer Opposition to New Union Access Policy

Documents released by the government show overwhelming employer opposition to the union access proposals set out in the Employment Rights Act. Labour is obviously proceeding anyway… 1,210 respondents to the government consultation on trade union access to workplaces were employers out of 1,612 total: Percentage of consultation respondents who disagreed with government proposals — all…

Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

HMRC Spends More Than £6 Million on Advisers for Hated ‘Making Tax Digital’ Regime

HMRC is spending more than £6 million per year on staff to administer the hated Making Tax Digital rules, which will force self-employed and other taxpayers to file tax information five times a year. You can’t hate these guys enough… The pointless regime has as of this month begun pulling people in for the first…

Economy
Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

Sarwar Says “This Is Not Over” as Polling Shows Labour Heading for Holyrood Wipeout

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has insisted it is “all to play for” in Holyrood next month despite fresh polling from STV putting Labour a whopping 24 points behind the SNP. Labour is on track for its worst-ever defeat north of the border…  Party Vote Share ■ SNP 39% ■ LAB 15% ■ REF 15%…

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Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

Downing Street Meets With AI Firm Representatives Amid Cybersecurity Scare

Representatives of prominent AI firm Anthropic have held meetings in No10 this morning. Along with other AI specialists… Anthropic’s latest AI model Mythos can identify critical vulnerabilities in a vast array of security systems (including national ones). It can do so with software that is more than 30 years old. Anthropic is keeping the model…

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Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

WATCH: Polanski Refuses to Rule Out 55 MPH Motorway Speed Limit Policy

“It wasn’t in our manifesto” is hardly a genius way of dodging the question…

Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

Disaster for Miliband as OpenAI Pauses Huge UK Project Over Energy Costs & Regulation

Gargantuan Silicon Valley tech firm OpenAI has paused a major UK infrastructure. Blaming energy costs and regulations… Stargate is being paused: “We see huge potential for the UK‘s AI future… AI compute is foundational to that goal — we continue to explore Stargate UK and will move forward when the right conditions such as regulation…

Defence
Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

LIVE: John Healey Gives ‘Operational Update’

John Healey is in Downing Street to give an update on the UK’s defence operations regarding Iran. Watch along – he’s equipped with a map… Healey says Russian subs were attempting to spy on the seabed in order to take out British cables and pipelines before scarpering on the arrival of the Navy. Chilling…

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Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

Labour-Green Local Election War Breaks Out Over Housing

Housing is the central nib of Labour’s battle against the Green Party in the upcoming local elections. Both sides think they have gains to make targeting the issue… Zack Polanski has trailed comments for his local election campaign launch today in London: “Look at how Labour councils treat their own tenants… One of Keir Starmer’s…

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Guido Fawkes9 Apr 2026

Yvette Cooper: Strait of Hormuz Cannot Have Tolls

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper is touring broadcast studios with UK demands for the Strait of Hormuz. Namely “not to have tolls, not to have restrictions, but to get that fully re-opened”… Cooper said it was a priority for Starmer on his three-day trip: “One of the crucial things that the prime minister will be talking…

Guido Fawkes8 Apr 2026

Labour Ministers Recommend VPNs for Cybersecurity

Labour ministers have officially recommended using a VPN. Asked what the guidance is for Virtual Private Networks, a DSIT minister answered in a parliamentary question: “A summary of the wide variety of guidance provided by the National Protective Security Authority (NPSA) is available on their website. The national technical authority for cyber security is the…

Politics
Guido Fawkes8 Apr 2026

‘Relieved’ Starmer: ‘Still a Lot of Work to Do’ to Open Strait

Starmer has landed in Saudi Arabia on his vanity jolly and spoken to broadcasters. Here we go… He said there is “still a lot of work to do” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz: “There’s work to do. It’s early days…” He added there is “a real sense” of relief after the supposed ceasefire. He…