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Guido Fawkes22 May 2026

Guido Whispers: Which MP Boasted About Managing the Streeting Supporter Spreadsheet?

Which broadcaster is facing another round of redundancies? Which MP boasted about managing the Streeting supporter spreadsheet? And how do allies describe Burnham’s Chief of Staff Keith Lee? To find out, become a Guido member today. Sign up here and get all the gossip first…

Guido Fawkes22 May 2026

VOTE NOW: The Guido Fawkes Reform Power Rankings (May Edition)

Every month, we’ll publish the power rankings of all the leading lights in the party based on our readers’ responses. Click here to fill in the survey, and the results will be published at the end of the month. Dan Thomas and Malcolm Offord have been added to the roster. Here’s how last month played…

Guido Fawkes22 May 2026

Home Office’s Security Quango Ill-Prepared for Massive New Anti-Terror Regulations on Businesses

The UK’s private security regulator has filled barely a quarter of the staff it needs to enforce new a anti-terror security law, even as its existing licensing operation buckles under rising backlogs, longer processing times, and a complaint uphold rate approaching 50%. Martyn’s Law will require premises and events to assess terrorism risks and put…

Guido Fawkes22 May 2026

EXC: Burnham Being Privately Advised to Call Early Election on Entry to No10

Guido hears advisers of Andy Burnham are recommending the mayor calls a pretty immediate general election if he enters office later this year. The country could go to the polls before Christmas… A source with knowledge of the discussions said: “It’s an active conversation.” In case people thought it was all Makerfield… Guido speculated on…

Politics
Guido Fawkes22 May 2026

EXC: Anas Sarwar Refusing to Step Down Until Starmer Does

Guido hears Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar – humiliated at the Scottish Parliament elections – is refusing to step down until Starmer does. Oh dear… Around the time of the 2024 election Labour was almost at parity with the SNP in Scottish polls. By 7 May it suffered a -2.4% swing and only won 17…

PoliticsDefence
Guido Fawkes22 May 2026

Burnham U-Turns on Opposition to EHRC Single-Sex Guidance

Andy Burnham has U-turned on his opposition to the EHRC trans guidance and his views on trans use of facilities in general. Right that’s it – Guido is launching a tracker… Burnham said today that his views had changed since 2022 and added: “I think the time has come to take the Supreme Court ruling…

Crime
Guido Fawkes22 May 2026

Commons Offers Support to Staff After Government Issues New Trans Guidance

Just emailed to all staffers and MPs in Parliament: “Dear colleagues, The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has released new guidance for organisations, following the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on 16 April 2025 regarding the legal definitions of “men” and “women” for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010. The EHRC guidance will come…

PoliticsCrime
Guido Fawkes22 May 2026

Caption Contest (Fire in Their Bellies Edition)

Entries in the comments…

Guido Fawkes22 May 2026

LIVE: Andy Burnham Launches Makerfield By-Election Campaign

A quiet morning for Andy so far…

Politics
Guido Fawkes22 May 2026

Angry Burnham Deletes Botched Attack on Media After Campaign Scuffle

Andy Burnham has attempted to give his side of the story after his clash with the Daily Mail’s Christian Calgie. It has already gone wrong. Earlier this morning, Burnham tweeted this: Those looking to find this tweet will struggle, because he has deleted it. GB News never mentioned the story once. Guido did, of course,…

Guido Fawkes22 May 2026

Business Secretary: Finally-Published Trans Guidance Is ‘Sensitive’

Business Secretary Peter Kyle has defended the long delay in the publication of the government’s single-sex spaces guidance and praised the document as “light touch.” He told Sky News: “It’s very common sense, and it won’t affect the vast majority of businesses because they will already conform… I think the majority of changes will be…

Guido Fawkes22 May 2026

Government Borrowing More Than £3 Billion Above OBR Forecasts

New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that net borrowing was well above forecasts at £24.3 billion in April 2026. That’s £4.9 billion – 25% – more than in April last year, and £3.4 billion more than the £20.9 billion forecast by the OBR. Not much room for Andy to expand on… The…