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Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

Burnham Accuses Media of ‘Skewed Coverage’ on Brexit Stance

Andy Burnham has just sat down for an interview with BBC Radio Manchester. Finally willing to (half) answer some questions… On Brexit, he attempted to push back on the “skewed coverage” of his position, and insisted it wouldn’t be a priority for the next “five or ten years“. Damage control… “I’ve not said that we…

Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

Alastair Campbell Privately Claims He is Being ‘Begged’ to Take a Senior Role in No10

Guido hears Alastair Campbell is going around saying people keep begging for him to go back into No10 to save Starmer. Cloud cuckoo land… Much like his old accomplice turned Starmer hagiographer Tom Baldwin, Bad Al insists on hovering around the Labour operation. He’s got a lot to lost if Starmer goes kaput… Guido sincerely…

Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

Business Activity Falls for First Time in 13 Months

The latest S&P Global Flash UK PMI composite output index dropped to 48.5 in May from 52.6 in April. A 13-month low and well below the 50 expansion threshold… That reading significantly undershot the 51.6 consensus forecast from Reuters-polled economists. Services saw the sharpest activity decline since January 2021, with the overall reading the lowest…

Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

Bad-Tempered Burnham Loses Cool in Clash with Daily Mail’s Christian Calgie

The Mail’s Christian Calgie trekked up to Makerfield this week to follow Reform on the campaign trail. By coincidence, he collided with Andy Burnham in a café. It did not go well. Burnham decided to turn it into a lecture on ‘boundaries’ (during an historic by-election in which he’s trying to defenestrate the Prime Minister)……

Politics
Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

HMRC Stats Show Wes Streeting’s Flagship Tax Idea Would Lose £7 Billion

Wes Streeting has called for a massive hike in Capital Gains Tax as part of his pitch for the leadership. Or the highest office possible under Burnham… Streeting complained to the BBC’s Political Thinking podcast about the tax system and proposed a “wealth tax that works“: “A member of my family is a cleaner in…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes20 May 2026

Phillipson Defends Gemma Collins Collaboration After “Kids, This Could Be You” Video

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has pushed back against criticism of her joint video with The Only Way Is Essex star Gemma Collins in the DfE building. The first was released yesterday… In one of the videos released by the government Collins said: “You better make sure, honeys, that whatever you’re going to be learning, you…

Education
Guido Fawkes20 May 2026

Simon’s Sketch: Keir Loosens Up as Labour Looks for Its Next Liability

Esther McVey made the neatest joke on the subject, asking the PM: “Does the Prime Minister agree with Andy Burnham when he says we should rejoin the European Union, or does he agree with Andy Burnham when he says we shouldn’t?” There’s another iteration of the same joke.

Guido Fawkes20 May 2026

WATCH: Rachel Reeves Heckled at Petrol Station

Not sure what she expected… Hat-tip: The Sun…

Guido Fawkes20 May 2026

Teambuilding Burnham & the Return of Sue Gray

Discussion around Burnham’s team is ramping up since Guido revealed a possible No10 staffing structure in an Andy premiership. It’s not just going to be him you know… Some Labour sources speculate that Sue Gray, the erstwhile No10 Chief of Staff, could take up a role in a Burnham government. Gray and the Manchester mayor…

Guido Fawkes20 May 2026

WATCH: Streeting Delivers Resignation Speech to Half-Empty Commons

Flanked by a few allies, and speaking to a depleted chamber, Wes Streeting declared he resigned because “we are in the fight of our lives against nationalism“. And the crowd goes mild…

Politics
Guido Fawkes20 May 2026

POLL: Burnham Would Hand Labour Three-Point Lead

New polling from More in Common shows some evidence of an immediate ‘Burnham bounce’ for Labour if the Manchester mayor enters No10: Now Ref 29 Lab 22 Con 19 LD 13 Grn 11 Oth 6 REF +7 Burnham Lab 30 Ref 27 Con 20 LD 11 Grn 7 Oth 3 LAB +3 10-point swing —…

Guido Fawkes20 May 2026

WATCH: Badenoch Shreds Starmer Over Russian Sanctions Farce

Punchy. Read Guido’s fact check of Starmer’s farcical claims here…