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Guido Fawkes17 Jun 2026

Team Burnham Declines Starmer’s Offer of a Cabinet Job for Andy

Andy Burnham’s team has already hit back after Starmer said this morning that he wants Burnham to have a big role in government. A source in the Burnham camp told the Manchester Evening News that “the benefit Andy has is the wind of change for not having been associated with the Government’s failings.”  They also…

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Guido Fawkes17 Jun 2026

ONE Day to Go… Who Will Win the Makerfield By-Election?

Guido’s Adam Cherry headed up to Makerfield ahead of this Thursday’s historic by-election. What do voters really think? Will Andy Burnham win? Will Restore Britain cost Reform the victory? Watch the video above to find out… Subscribe to Guido on YouTube to get ALL our exclusive videos sent straight to your inbox. Never miss a…

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Guido Fawkes17 Jun 2026

WATCH: Coutinho Asks Lammy Why Ed Miliband Hasn’t Been Sacked Yet

At DPMQs Claire Coutinho focussed on energy and the North Sea. Aberdeen South by-election is tomorrow… Coutinho asked Lammy why Ed miliband was still in post seeing as he is refusing to engage with No10 or take Starmer’s calls: “Last week, the prime minister asked the energy secretary to help fund the defense of our…

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Guido Fawkes17 Jun 2026

Starmer: I Want Burnham to Have a Big Role in Government

From Keir Starmer’s interview with Sky News’ Beth Rigby: BETH: Would you bring Burnham back into your cabinet? KEIR STARMER: Oh, Andy is a great asset. And, yes, I want him to have a big role in government. When I came in to… BETH: Are you going to call him at the weekend and invite…

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Guido Fawkes16 Jun 2026

The Right Angle: Two Days Until Makerfield

Two days remain until the Makerfield by-election. As Guido wrote in yesterday’s Labour Wars, Andy Burnham remains the bookies’ favourite. Reform’s hopes of crushing the Restore insurgency are fading. Party veteran and Reform board member Gawain Towler admitted today it would be “hard work” to win, though he largely attributed it to Burnham’s personal brand.…

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Guido Fawkes16 Jun 2026

Civil Servants Play With Clay Models for Darren Jones’ New School of Government

Guido thought he would check in on how Darren Jones’ new Civil Service school is going. Civil servants are being trained on clay modelling… A report published this month by the Cabinet Office and the government agency Policy Lab details a programme “to explore how civil servants navigate Learning & Development across their current roles…

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Guido Fawkes16 Jun 2026

TWO Days to Go… Who Will Win the Makerfield By-Election?

Guido’s Adam Cherry headed up to Makerfield ahead of this Thursday’s historic by-election. What do voters really think? Will Andy Burnham win? Will Restore Britain cost Reform the victory? Watch the video above to find out… Subscribe to Guido on YouTube to get ALL our exclusive videos sent straight to your inbox. Never miss a…

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Guido Fawkes16 Jun 2026

WATCH: Stamer Insists His “Doubters” Have Been “Wrong Every Time”

Starmer at the G7: “Very many times on my political journey, people have said to me, ‘It’s not possible’. They said it’s not possible to turn the Labour Party around. It’s not possible to win an election. It’s not possible, if you do win an election, to invest in your public services and stabilise the…

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Guido Fawkes15 Jun 2026

Labour Wars: Who Thinks Shabana Mahmood Should be Chancellor?

Who is briefing about Shabana Mahmood’s ‘reluctance’ to be Chancellor under Burnham? What’s disgraced Labour peer Matthew Doyle doing in Westminster? What are transparency enthusiasts looking forward to reading from Andy Burnham after his potential election to the Commons? Find out all that and more below… Guido members get exclusive access to Labour Wars, the…

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Guido Fawkes15 Jun 2026

Labour Furious at Lauren Edwards for Plan to Bring Back Assisted Suicide Bill

On Friday, Guido noted the inevitable civil war that would ensue if a Labour MP brought back the assisted suicide Bill. Just a few days later that civil war is now raging after Rochester & Strood MP, Lauren Edwards, announced her politically clueless plan to bring back Kim Leadbeater’s failed Bill… Labour MPs are in…

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Guido Fawkes15 Jun 2026

Powell Vetting Questions Unresolved After Mandelson Furore

Morgan McSweeney told the Foreign Affairs Select Committee: “Jonathan Powell got appointed too before the necessary [vetting] work”. Westminster has moved on since the release of the damning Mandelson files, Guido has not… Leaked emails show that Jonathan Powell was working in Syria from at least 2012 onwards – including negotiating with terror groups. As…

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Guido Fawkes15 Jun 2026

WATCH: Defence Ministers Dragged to House of Commons to Answer Questions on Defence Investment Plan

The Speaker has granted Kemi Badenoch an Urgent Question to drag defence ministers to the Commons to discuss the Defence Investment Plan: “To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the impact of the time taken to publish the Defence Investment Plan on the ability of the armed…

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