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Guido Fawkes10 Jul 2026

Ofcom Chief Executive’s Inflation-Busting Pay Rise Takes Her Salary to Almost £500,000

Ofcom’s annual report and accounts for 2025/26 shows that its chief executive took home a whopping £478,784. Up from £455,324 the year before – her salary and allowances rose by an inflation-busting 4.87%… Total staff costs jumped by 10% to £153.1 million which is two-thirds of all operating expenditure. Headcount rose to 1,665 from 1,557,…

Economy
Guido Fawkes10 Jul 2026

WATCH: Ann Widdecombe’s Explosive Speech to the EU Parliament

As a Brexit Party MEP for the South West elected in 2019. Kemi Badenoch has also paid tribute this morning: “My deepest condolences and those of the Conservative Party to the family and friends of Ann Widdecombe. She was a formidable politician who was never afraid to speak her mind and fought hard for what…

Politics
Guido Fawkes10 Jul 2026

IN FULL: The Labour MPs & Ministers Who Didn’t Nominate Burnham on Day One

322 Labour MPs nominated Andy Burnham yesterday, making it impossible for any other MP to get enough nominations to challenge him. Shock and horror… 78 MPs didn’t sign their name by 5 p.m. – they may have done so since: Jack Abbott Tahir Ali James Asser Johanna Baxter Apsana Begum Phil Brickell Richard Burgon Ian…

Politics
Guido Fawkes10 Jul 2026

Ann Widdecombe Dies Aged 78

The longtime MP and Conservative ex-minister joined the Brexit Party in 2019 and was more recently a spokesman for Reform UK. Nigel Farage said: “When Ann Widdecombe decided to stand for The Brexit Party in the snap 2019 European Elections, it was a big moment and huge boost. The voters loved her. She played a…

PoliticsReform
Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

PETITION: Tell Burnham to Cancel the Chagos Surrender

Andy Burnham has been advised at high-level access talks to revive the Chagos surrender. Such a move would likely enrage large parts of the US administration at the behest of a few unaccountable officials in Britain… Keeping Starmer’s Chagos policy will also blow Burnham’s balance sheet. Guido already established that Burnham’s spending commitments so far…

Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

No New Keirs Were Born Last Year

A tragedy for the outgoing PM as another year passes with no new Keirs. The final insult… New baby name figures for 2025 have been released by the Office for National Statistics today: Keir: 2025 = 0 (no change) Kemi: 2025 = 4 (up 1) Rishi: 2025 = 28 (up 10) Boris: 2025 = 19 (up…

Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

Louise Haigh: Burnham Wouldn’t Fall Out With Chancellor Miliband

Convicted fraudster Louise Haigh has claimed that Andy Burnham wouldn’t fall out with Ed Miliband if he were Chancellor because they are good friends. Were it so easy… Haigh – who was previously convicted of fraud by false representation in 2014 and is now Burnham’s right-hand woman – told Nick Robinson that there was not…

Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

Reform Makes Complaint After ‘Catching Guardian Journalist Recording Them Behind a Curtain’

Reform have complained after they allegedly found a journalist from the Guardian eavesdropping on a private meeting at the Local Government Association conference from behind a curtain. Were his shoes sticking out from the bottom… The party says Guardian senior political correspondent Peter Walker was told that a Reform personnel meeting on local government efficiency…

Politics
Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

Home Office Claims Paying £30 Million to Bring Migrants Across Channel Is “Bearing Down on Small Boat Crossings”

The government has defended its new £30 million contract for a private company to charter boats and crew and pick up people trying to cross the Channel. Costs up by twelve times since 2022… After Martin Daubney blasted the gargantuan contract on GB News, the Home Office said: “We are modernising our fleet to intercept…

Immigration
Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

Met Gives Graham Linehan £25,000 and Another Apology

The Met has paid Graham Linehan £25,000 in compensation after arresting him for posts that were gender-critical. They said there were “shortcomings in the investigation, the arrest and the imposition of bail conditions”. He got a letter: “Whilst there can be no doubt that all officers acted in good faith throughout and were seeking to do…

Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

Government’s Own Statistics Show No Outcome Disparity for Minority Groups in Judiciary

The Ministry of Justice’s own statistics released today show that there is no disparity in outcomes between white and non-white candidates in the judiciary. Who would have thought… ‘There was no disparity of outcomes between White and ethnic minority candidates in legal judicial selection exercises… Across all legal exercises in 2025-26, ethnic minority candidates accounted…

PoliticsReform
Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

Pakistan Escalates Row Over Rochdale Rape Gang Leader’s Deportation

The government thinks that Pakistan will refuse to take Rochdale grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed back, despite Shabana Mahmood briefing that she has discovered a workaround for the loophole that prevents his deportation. Will Labour get heavy-handed with the Pakistani government… The Times reports that Pakistan is demanding the extradition of two political dissidents from…

PoliticsImmigrationRemigration