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Guido Fawkes7 Apr 2026

Tiny Number Apply to Be Ed Davey’s New Chief of Staff

Ed Davey’s advert for a new personal Chief of Staff has garnered a limited number of applications. Not much appetite in running the Labour meek coalition partner vehicle… “The Chief of Staff is the Leader’s principal strategic adviser and senior aide, responsible for ensuring the effective operation of the Leader’s Office and supporting the Leader…

Guido Fawkes7 Apr 2026

Labour Blocks 16-Year-Olds From Digital ID People’s Assembly Despite Giving Them the Vote

Some strategic Parliamentary questions from Alex Burghart have identified that the £600,000 Digital ID people’s assembly will only allow 18-year-olds in: “Participants will be recruited through a process called sortition. This is a random postcode lottery. It is a way of selecting individuals to take part in deliberative processes, where everyone is given an equal…

Politics
Guido Fawkes7 Apr 2026

Burnham Offering Taxpayer-Funded E-Bike Vouchers to “Gender Diverse People”

Transport for Greater Manchester is piloting a new E-bike subsidy scheme at the generosity of the taxpayer via DfT’s Active Travel England. Priority is given to applicants who are “underrepresented in cycling or who experience financial or practical barriers“. Here’s who Andy Burnham has decided is ‘underrepresented in cycling’… People living in areas of higher…

Economy
Guido Fawkes7 Apr 2026

Bar Standards Board Dismisses Jolyon Maugham’s Trans Complaint

Jolyon has lost again. The Bar Standards Board late last week slapped down a complaint made by Maugham’s Good Law Project against a barrister over her social media posts. Sarah Phillimore is also launching crowdfunded defamation proceedings against Jolyon himself… The GLP made a complaint on behalf of a trans person after Phillimore referred to…

Guido Fawkes7 Apr 2026

Home Office Blocks Kanye West From Entering Britain

Amid the furore over Kanye West’s upcoming performance at the Wireless festival Labour has now blocked his entry to the UK. He can still get in by small boat presumably… The Home Office said an application was made for a visa waiver – an Electronic Travel Authorisation – yesterday which has been refused on the…

Immigration
Guido Fawkes7 Apr 2026

Farage: Don’t Ban Kanye West From Entering UK

Farage on whether Kanye West should be banned from entering the UK over antisemitic comments: “I wouldn’t buy a ticket… his comments are vile… but I think if we start banning people from entering the country because we don’t like what they say I worry where that ends up… it’s a dangerous path to go…

Reform
Guido Fawkes7 Apr 2026

Labour Won’t Reveal Cost of Capping Student Loan Interest Rates Until Budget

Downing Street is refusing to say how much it will cost to cap student loan interest payments at 6%. When asked, the Number 10 spokesman said at the Lobby briefing this afternoon: “I think the RPI figure will be published later this month, costs and funding will be set out at the Budget in the…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes7 Apr 2026

LIVE: Reform Hosts Press Conference After Visa Ban Vow Over Reparations

Immigration
Guido Fawkes7 Apr 2026

Westminster Wonks Join Tory Adviser Operation

Guido hears Tory-aligned think tank Onward’s Head of Political Economy Gavin Rice has been hired by campaigning Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy as his new senior adviser. Rice was previously SpAd for Boris and later policy director at the Centre for Social Justice. His main work at Onward was also with Timothy on the Future…

PoliticsEconomyDefenceReform
Guido Fawkes7 Apr 2026

Labour’s New ‘Fair Work’ Quango Hires Senior Staff on Four-Day Weeks

Labour’s ‘Fair Work Agency,’ the organisation being set up to police employers and enforce the hated Employment Rights Act and replace the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, is hiring some of its most senior staff on four-day weeks. Start as you mean to go on – the agency set to make life hell for employers…

Crime
Guido Fawkes7 Apr 2026

Labour Caps Student Loan Interest Rates

Labour’s new policy on student loans has come after outrage online prompted a campaign in the media and Tory promises to take action. The DfE says the interest rate on Plan 2 and Plan 3 student loans will be capped at 6% from September. It’s currently an interest rate of RPI +3% while they are…

Housing
Guido Fawkes7 Apr 2026

British Service Sector Posts Weakest Performance in Eleven Months

The latest services PMI from S&P Global shows the sector is growing at its slowest for 11 months. Downturns… Services PMI dropped sharply to 50.5 in March, down from 53.9 in February. This is the lowest reading since April 2025 and below the flash estimate of 51.2. New orders fell for the first time since…