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Guido Fawkes5 Jun 2026

Darren Jones: AI Means We Won’t Be Able Collect Enough Tax to Pay Unemployment Benefits

Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones has blamed Britain’s youth unemployment problem on AI and claimed that the technology could destroy the economy in the future. Did he get that comms strategy from his friend Peter Mandelson? Speaking at the CBI Business Members dinner last night, Jones described himself as the “Chief Operating Officer…

Economy
Guido Fawkes5 Jun 2026

Supermarkets Shed 18,000 Jobs and Blame Labour Taxes and Wage Hikes

Britain’s largest retailers have cut nearly 18,000 jobs over the past year according to Bloomberg. You’ll never guess what they blame… Higher taxes and wages under Labour have squeezed supermarkets – Tesco’s headcount is down by almost 5,000 in the last financial year. Sainsbury’s, John Lewis, and Kingfisher (B&Q) each saw average employee counts fall…

Economy
Guido Fawkes4 Jun 2026

WATCH: Minister Reacts to Sycophantic Darren Jones Messages to Mandelson on Day He Was Sacked

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby said messages from Darren Jones to Peter Mandelson praising the ambassador on the day he was sacked for his relationship with Epstein made her feel “not great.” The messages between the pair – missing from the Mandelson Files but sourced elsewhere – were published by the Spectator’s Tim…

Economy
Guido Fawkes3 Jun 2026

WATCH: Labour ‘Growth Minister’ Claims Rejoining the EU is Inevitable

Here is Labour’s “Growth Minister” – three words that should never sit next to each other in a sentence – Lord Livermore standing at the Lords despatch box claiming it is an “inevitability” that Brexit will be undone: “We are seeking to mitigate at the margins the huge damage done to the UK economy by…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes3 Jun 2026

Burnham Congratulates Himself for Raising Taxes in Manchester

Andy Burnham has declared that the best example of his ability to make tough choices was his raising taxes in Manchester. Implosion on contact with Downing Street incoming… Burnham invited the New Statesman to see how popular he is in Makerfield with a pre-selected run of door-knocks. Asked by the magazine’s political editor Ailbhe Rea…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes3 Jun 2026

OECD Cuts UK’s 2027 Growth Forecast as Debt and Inflation Keep Rising

The OECD has cut its UK growth forecast for 2027 to 1.1%, down from the 1.3% it expected in March, a detail Rachel Reeves conveniently skipped over today as she welcomed slightly higher growth this year and inflation a smidge lower than previously forecast. As if the country woke up this morning grateful for her…

Economy
Guido Fawkes2 Jun 2026

Miliband Commits Government to 87% Emissions Cut by 2040 in Net Zero Push

Ed Miliband has signed up to a legal target to cut the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions by 87% by 2040. Not stopping this train… This is in order to reach Net Zero by 2050. The 2038-42 period is the seventh ‘carbon budget.’ The Climate Change Committee says “meeting the target will require households to install…

EconomyEnvironment
Guido Fawkes1 Jun 2026

Cabinet Minister Pat McFadden: Every Meeting I Have Is About Hiking Tax and Paying More Benefits

Peter Mandelson → Pat McFadden (then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) WhatsApp, 24 May 2025 Mandelson: I have spoken to Morgan a lot this week and last night I was direct with him – Keir is not leading from the front and Morgan is not organising the centre as it needs to be. Gordon…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes1 Jun 2026

Mandelson and No10 Staff Scheming to Hire ‘Economic Adviser’ to Mentor Starmer

Peter Mandelson to Vidhya Alakeson (then Deputy Chief of Staff, No.10) WhatsApp, 1–4 July 2025 Mandelson: Hi hope you are well and are coping with everything. I am flying back to Washington later today but if you have a moment to talk on phone that would be good. Let me Know. [call] Mandelson: I do…

Economy
Guido Fawkes29 May 2026

BBC Forced to Edit Misleading Pro-Net Zero Headline

The BBC has edited a headline that suggested the Confederation of British Industry backed “green jobs.” Typical… BBC Scotland published an article headlined: “Green jobs contributing £10.2bn to Scotland’s economy, says CBI.” Only, it doesn’t… Actually the CBI’s separate consultancy CBI Economics was commissioned by a pro-net zero think tank to talk up the contributions…

EconomyEnvironment
Guido Fawkes29 May 2026

WATCH: Torsten Bell Insists Labour Not to Blame for Youth Unemployment Disaster

Budget Man Bell on Sky News, asked if hiking taxes and the minimum wage has contributed to sky high youth unemployment: “Isn’t your government part of the problem?” “No, we’re part of the answer…” He also revealed the country can expect the elusive Defence Investment Plan… when it’s ready.

EconomyDefence
Guido Fawkes28 May 2026

Burnham Accuses Blair of ‘Retro Thinking’ in Written Counterattack

Andy Burnham has hit back at Tony Blair in writing with a Times piece. His main arguments: Agrees with Blair on “the vital need for higher economic growth as the enabler of greater social justice,” that Labour should focus on “domestic issues, and fixing our own underlying problems, rather than on re-running divisive arguments about…

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