News

Original reporting and the latest political headlines from across the UK.

Our Articles

Mainstream Headlines

Filtering by:Source: Guido Fawkes×Clear all

1299 headlines found — Page 36 of 109

Guido Fawkes19 May 2026

The Right Angle: The Plight of the Plucky Plumber

Welcome back to the Right Angle, the insiders’ guide on the what’s happening on the British right. Exclusively for Guido members… Fawkes Friends and Premium Plotters also receive priority tickets to all our events, including our upcoming debate, Is Britain Broken, featuring Zia Yusuf, Fraser Nelson, and David Frost. Click here to become a member today…

Guido Fawkes19 May 2026

EXC: Civil Servants Worked With TUC on Employment Rights Act Propaganda

The Trades Union Congress collaborated formally with civil servants to produce counter-analysis of the Employment Rights Act that propagandised Rayner’s legislation. In private email correspondence uncovered by Guido’s FOI Unit, a TUC official wrote to two DBT officials: “I have also attached our final note on the government’s ERB impact assessment, which, you may be…

Guido Fawkes19 May 2026

Starmer and Powell’s Syria Links Under Scrutiny Yet Again

Co-conspirators will remember Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa’s weird podcast with leftist supremos Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart. What was that about? The links between the new Syrian regime and Labour’s top brass are deeper. As Guido revealed, staff from Powell’s former consultancy (which he founded), Inter Mediate, are embedded in Al-Sharaa’s Presidential Office in Damascus.…

Defence
Guido Fawkes19 May 2026

Reform Selects Robert Kenyon as Makerfield Candidate

Kenyon stood in the same seat in the 2024 election. Reform is keen to emphasise its ‘plucky plumber’ is a local man… Kenyon said: “Makerfield has never had a member of Parliament who was actually born in Makerfield. This will be a tough fight but I am going to give this contest my best shot.”…

Politics
Guido Fawkes19 May 2026

HS2 to Run More Slowly & Cost More Than £100 Billion

Announced as part of the HS2 update by Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander in the Commons: The new expected cost to complete HS2 is between £87.7 billion and between £102 billion in 2025 prices. The first services from Old Oak Common to Birmingham are expected to start between May 2036 and 2039. The full operation of…

Politics
Guido Fawkes19 May 2026

Burnham Wins Labour Makerfield Selection as Only Shortlisted Candidate

The only candidate shortlisted, because why would anyone else have bothered…

Politics
Guido Fawkes19 May 2026

LIVE: Intelligence & Security Committee Drags Ministers to Commons on Mandelson Files

This rare action from the ISC comes after the government failed to respond or act on its letter of last week complaining about extraordinary redactions to the second tranche of the Mandelson Files release. Watch along… Darren Jones: “The government found a small number of extra documents that it submitted… The second tranche will now…

Politics
Guido Fawkes19 May 2026

Brussels Would Hit Britain With £5 Billion Rebate Raid to Rejoin

Britain would lose Margaret Thatcher’s EU rebate and pay at least £5 billion a year more than before Brexit if Labour drags the country back into Brussels, according to the UK’s last European commissioner. The Burnham premium would cost billions… Sir Julian King warns today that Brussels would not tolerate any “special deal” on re-entry.…

Defence
Guido Fawkes19 May 2026

EXC: Zarah Sultana Explores Options for New Seats and Mayoral Candidacy

Your Party-ish MP Zarah Sultana is looking for her next elected gig. Planning for the next election at which point Zarah no doubt expects Labour voters to kick her out of Coventry South… Sultana is looking at London and Birmingham. Pollsters have been contacted this week by her representatives who say they want to test…

Politics
Guido Fawkes19 May 2026

THE BURNHAM RECEIPTS: Waheed Alli’s £10,000 Donation

Co-conspirators and SW1 denizens will remember the many faces of Andy Burnham. The extent of his dalliance with the Labour right has been smudged since 2015… Waheed Alli, bankroller of the Labour right and eventually the Starmer project, donated £26,500 to leadership hopefuls Andy Burnham and Liz Kendall in 2015 as Corbyn took over the…

Guido Fawkes19 May 2026

Pat McFadden: This By-Election is Unnecessary

Work & Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden told broadcasters this morning: “Any unnecessary by-election is always a risk. Uh, it’s the voters who have their say, but like any by-election that is called for whatever reason, I want Labour to win. Uh, I want to see a Labour MP for that seat, and that’s what we’ll…

Politics
Guido Fawkes19 May 2026

Cabinet Minister Blames Booming Journalist’s Voice for Downing Street Stumble

Hat-tip to the indomitable Keith Bays, whose thundering voice now knocks Cabinet Ministers like Jo Stevens off-course…

Politics