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Guido Fawkes30 Jul 2026

Taxpayer Spent £10,000 on Every ‘Soft Power Council’ Meeting Skived Off by Cabinet Ministers

A useless government council which was skived off by Cabinet ministers cost £10,000 every time it met, new figures reveal. Cheap by Civil Service standards… The ‘Soft Power Council’ launched under the last Starmer government to co-ordinate between the Foreign Office and DCMS on projecting British influence. It was skived off by Lisa Nandy and…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes30 Jul 2026

Khan Hires ‘Diverse Individuals’ to Instruct Met on ‘Equity’ While Police Numbers Are Cut

Sadiq – sorry, Lord Khan is spending tens of thousands in taxpayer cash to hire “experienced and diverse individuals” to instruct the Met on EDI reforms while police officer numbers are falling due to cuts. All in a day’s work for the mayor… Khan is seeking three new members of the London Policing Board to “help…

EconomyCrime
Guido Fawkes30 Jul 2026

Bank of England Holds Interest Rates at 3.75%

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England has voted to hold interest rates at 3.75% for the fifth time. It voted by a majority of 6–3 (hawkish) to maintain the rate against a hike. Inflation fell by more than expected. Read the full remarks here…

Economy
Guido Fawkes29 Jul 2026

ONS Spends £400,000 on Branded Notepads

Britain’s embattled statistics authority spent £400,000 in taxpayer cash on branded notepads. It’s the hottest merch in town… Shadow Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster Alex Burghart asked what branded items the ONS had spent money on, chief executive Darren Tierney responded: “In line with the guidance permitting merchandise for essential government delivery, the ONS…

Economy
Guido Fawkes29 Jul 2026

Sadiq Khan Wastes Thousands on Taxpayer-Funded Campaign Celebrating Ten Years Since He Became Mayor

An advert campaign launched across London to celebrate ten years of Sadiq Khan being in office as mayor used thousands in taxpayer cash. Vanity publishing latest… Khan was first elected on 7 May, 2016 and posters started appearing – especially on the TfL network – at around that time. A campaign video started with audio…

Economy
Guido Fawkes29 Jul 2026

Burnham Warns Higher Taxes Are Coming to Fund Social Care Plan

Burnham’s clearest signal yet that tax hikes are coming: “I think firstly, you have to do more with what you’ve got. But I think Louise indicated, some of what we’d want to do in the fullest sense will require difficult decisions. But we will be honest with people about those, we will put them before…

EconomyDefence
Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

Burnham Rules Out Scrapping Stamp Duty at Budget

Andy Burnham told broadcasters this afternoon that he won’t be replacing Stamp Duty… at least at this year’s Budget: “Yes, I can say that quite clearly. That won’t be happening. It’s just not the case that we are bringing forward plans, on that scale, at this moment in time… Obviously, what we’re trying to do,…

EconomyDefence
Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

PPS Reshuffle List In Full

10 Downing Street: Sir Nic Dakin David Baines Jo Platt Cabinet Office: Alan Gemmell Dr Beccy Cooper Natasha Irons HM Treasury: John Grady Alistair Strathern Yuan Yang Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Anna Gelderd Laura Kyrke-Smith Chris Murray Home Office: Michael Payne Adam Thompson Chris Vince Ministry of Justice: Linsey Farnsworth Joe Powell Connor Rand…

PoliticsEconomyReform
Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

Energy Secretary Backed Compulsory Four-Day Week for Everyone

Miatta Fahnbulleh, while chief executive of the New Economics Foundation, wrote an impassioned essay in 2019 called “the Neoliberal Collapse” in favour of her “green new deal” proposals. Here are some extracts: “Just like the economic breakdown that has chipped away at people’s quality of life, environmental decline is rooted in the crisis of capitalism.…

EconomyEnvironment
Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

Burnham’s Property Tax Proposals Would Destroy Rental Market

According to the i Paper Burnham is considering whether to implement one of two taxes: “Two models are competing for support: a proportional property tax, which would replace both council tax and stamp duty with a flat 0.48 per cent annual charge on a home’s current value; or a land value tax – an annual…

EconomyHousing
Guido Fawkes27 Jul 2026

EXC: Burnham Could Swerve Downing Street Council Tax Bill by Keeping His Primary Residence In Manchester

If Andy Burnham registers his Manchester home as his main residence, the council tax on his Downing Street flat would fall to the taxpayer rather than the PM. Saving Burnham a handy £2000 a year… As then-Cabinet Office minister Ruth Anderson said in a written PQ answer last year: “…where a minister occupies an official…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes24 Jul 2026

US Treasury Pressures Burnham Over Muslim Brotherhood Sanctions

The US administration wasted no time in indicating what direction it wants Burnham to take on Islamist extremism. Overnight the US Treasury said Mahmoud al-Abyari, a dual Egyptian-Austrian citizen, will be subject to a travel ban and asset freeze. He is based in London, which deliberately puts pressure on the UK authorities to follow suit……

Economy