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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Green Party Fails to Delete Candidate’s Videos ‘Blaming Israel’ for Bondi Beach Tragedy and Attack on RAF Base

A Green candidate in the local elections has failed to delete numerous videos on his social media despite the party promising they would be removed. The party has also kept him on as a candidate despite being alerted to his posts by the press days before close of nominations last Thursday… Mark Adderley, a Green…

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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Simon’s Sketch: Our National Embarrassment Red Faced With Anger and Possibly Shame

The Sketch will always speak up for the underdog – the disparaged, the dismissed, the bullied, the vulnerable. President Tump has few supporters in Parliament these days, so in the spirit of Ofcom, let us try for some balance. Ed Davey referred to the President threatening to rip up the UK’s trade deal as a…

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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Government Considers Early Prorogation of Parliament

The King’s Speech – opening the new parliamentary session – is on 13 May, just days after the Local Elections on the 7th of the month. Guido hears the government is considering an early prorogation of parliament – potentially as early as Tuesday… Briefings fired at the time the State Opening of Parliament was confirmed…

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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

PMQs: Speaker Scolds Starmer for Non-Answers, Badenoch Makes Sex Toy Joke

Speaker Lindsay Hoyle scolded Starmer for going on about Badenoch with pre-rehearsed lines by reminding his that “it is Prime Minister’s questions.“ Meanwhile Badenoch accused Labour MPs using sex toys of “fiddling while Rome burns”…

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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Labour’s Benefit Boost and Public Sector Handouts Would More Than Pay for Defence Spending Uplift

Labour’s funding to increase benefits and award hyper-generous pay packages to public sector workers more than covers the gap between what defence figures now want for national security and what Reeves is prepared to spend. When they told you politics is about choices… The Times reports that Reeves is prepared to make room for less…

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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Labour’s Asylum Hotel Closures Hit Reform Battlegrounds Weeks Before Polling Day

The Home Office yesterday closed 11 asylum seeker hotels across 10 constituencies. Seven are Labour-held. Six of those seats are projected to swing to Reform. The May 7th local elections happen to be 22 days away… 1. Banbury House Hotel, Banbury, Oxfordshire LAB ▸ REF 2. Britannia Hotel, Wolverhampton LAB ▸ REF 3. Madeley Court…

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Guido Fawkes14 Apr 2026

Starmer’s £15,000 of Furniture Purchases for Downing Street Flat

Guido’s FOI Unit has obtained the full set of purchases Starmer made for his flat of residence on Downing Street. Totalling over £15,000… Downing Street says the “Government is legally required to maintain the Downing Street buildings to the high standards appropriate to its Grade 1 and 2 listed status in consultation with Historic England.…

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Guido Fawkes14 Apr 2026

The Right Angle: On Your Marx…

Welcome back to the Right Angle, the insiders’ guide on the what’s happening on the British right. Exclusively for Guido members – click here to join us today… With nominations now closed for the May 7th elections, attention is turning to the more colourful candidates on the ballot paper. Step forward Marx de Morais, standing…

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Guido Fawkes14 Apr 2026

Southport Inquiry Recommends VPN Ban for Children

The Phase 1 report of the Southport Inquiry, which came out yesterday, has recommended exploring a partial ban on Virtual Private Networks. There is a big campaign on for this in Parliament… The report was scathing of agencies and Axel Rudakubana’s family, and concluded that the murders were entirely preventable. Let’s hope the institutional failures…

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Guido Fawkes14 Apr 2026

Government’s “Pampered” EU Unit Staff Treated to Away Day Before Starmer Reset Push

As Labour gears up to trumpet its cession of more sovereignty to the EU the Cabinet Office has treated its ‘EU Reset Unit’ staff to an away day. Relax while you can, you’re the gambit that’s meant to save Starmer’s premiership now… The ‘EU Relations Secretariat’ in the Cabinet Office numbers around 80 staff and…

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Guido Fawkes14 Apr 2026

Labour MP Vows to Bring Sex Toys Into Parliament

Yes, the headline is real. Labour MP Samantha Niblett has declared 2026 the “summer of sex”, and is launching a sex education campaign with “sextech” entrepreneur Cindy Gallop to ‘talk more openly’ about carnal pleasures. To that end, Niblett is promising to bring sex toys into Parliament to ‘encourage open conversation’. Parliament already has a…

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Guido Fawkes14 Apr 2026

Government Greenlights Politico Owner’s Telegraph Purchase

German Politico owner Axel Springer’s £575 million purchase of the Telegraph has been approved by the government. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said in a written Commons statement: “In my quasi-judicial role I have assessed the proposed merger between Axel Springer and the Telegraph Media Group Holdings Ltd under the public interest media mergers regime and…

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