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Guido Fawkes9 Mar 2026

WATCH: Macron in Under-Threat Cyprus While Starmer Visits London Community Centre

French President Macron and Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis are on Cyprus to visit troops. The Brits have two bases on Cyprus, Starmer has spent the morning in a community centre… No10 was asked by journalists at the daily briefing about the PM’s absence: “The Prime Minister has set out our unwavering support for Cyprus and…

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Guido Fawkes9 Mar 2026

“No Decision Taken” to Send British Aircraft Carrier to Middle East

Downing Street says “no decision has been taken” to send HMS Prince of Wales to the the Mediterranean in response to the Iran conflict, despite two days’ worth of headlines claiming the vessel had been placed on advanced readiness to sail from Portsmouth. It is one of Britain’s two aircraft carriers, both of which Trump…

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Guido Fawkes7 Mar 2026

Guido’s Most Read Stories This Week

This week 995,331 visitors visited 844,936 times viewing 913,154 pages. The most read and shared stories in order of popularity were: Partners of Sitting & Former Labour MPs Arrested on Suspicion of Spying for China Jenrick Releases Vidoe on Reeves’ Questionable Friendship With Mosque Chairman Downing Street Denies Receiving Glasman’s Report Warning Against Mandelson Appointment…

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Guido Fawkes6 Mar 2026

No10 Refuses to Say If Starmer Approved ‘Money for Nothing’ on Latest Cringeworthy TikTok

Starmer’s latest TikTok somehow attempts to turn his legalistic inaction on Iran into hard military edit. It doesn’t work… The PM uses the video to claim: “long before the US and Israeli action last weekend, we had already deployed additional military capability to the region.” The inaction is clearly a sore point… Even more bizarrely…

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Guido Fawkes6 Mar 2026

WATCH: Ex-Foreign Secretary Lammy Mistakenly Says Cyprus Is Part of NATO

It isn’t. In other news Lammy is soon to be part of geopolitics club at his local school for some extra learning…

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Guido Fawkes6 Mar 2026

Lammy: ‘Diplomacy Was Taking Its Course’ Before US Action in Iran

David Lammy was unable to elucidate the government’s position on Donald Trump’s recent comments on Iran during an interview with the Today Programme. The Deputy PM repeatedly said it is for the US and Israel to set out their war aims. Here they are… He said: “Clearly regime change from the air I don’t think…

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Guido Fawkes5 Mar 2026

Downing Street Denies Receiving Glasman’s Report ‘Warning Against Mandelson Appointment’

Downing Street has denied having received a written report from Blue Labour’s Lord Glasman warning against Mandelson’s appointment. Back in September as the Mandelson scandal was kicking off, Politics Home reported: “It is understood that after visiting the US and meeting people around Trump who raised concerns about Mandelson’s appointment, Glasman sent a memo to…

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Guido Fawkes5 Mar 2026

LIVE: Starmer’s Downing Street Press Conference on Middle East

UPDATE: Starmer announces RAF to send four more Typhoons to Al-Udeid airbase in Qatar. The first charter flight to evacuate British citizens took off from Oman this afternoon. Starmer said online: “I know that the situation in the Middle East is worrying for people across the UK and in the region… I’ll be giving an…

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Guido Fawkes5 Mar 2026

Spain Sends Frigate to Cyprus Which Will Arrive Before Royal Navy Destroyer

The Spanish Ministry of Defence has announced that its advanced frigate the Cristóbal Colón will sail to Cyprus to defend the island. It is set to get there at roughly the same time HMS Dragon leaves port in Britain… The frigate is currently sailing with the French aircraft carrier the Charles de Gaulle for training…

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Guido Fawkes5 Mar 2026

Victory for British Taxpayers as Collapse of Chagos Deal Stops £165 Million Payment to Mauritius

There’s been a notable change of tone in Port Louis since the eruption of the Iran conflict. Mauritian commentators are starting to admit Starmer’s Chagos deal is fully dead… According to media outlet DeFi: “While the process was progressing very well, with the adoption of the Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory…

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Guido Fawkes4 Mar 2026

WATCH: Starmer Refuses to Set Date for Delayed Defence Investment Plan

Starmer, red as a beetroot, with no explanation for the delayed Defence Investment Plan. This was supposed to have been published last autumn. Have they lost it down the back of the sofa?

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Guido Fawkes4 Mar 2026

WATCH: MPs on £98,599 Take Mass Dance Class While Middle East Breaks Out Into War

H/t: Kate Ferguson. Something something Rome burns…

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