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Guido Fawkes28 May 2026

REPORT: Cost of Renewables Set to Double by 2030

A new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) shows the UK’s electricity system costs are on track to more than double by 2030. The equivalent of adding £700 to the average household bill even if – and it’s a big if – gas prices remain static… According to the IEA, total subsidies and…

EconomyEnvironment
Guido Fawkes28 May 2026

Murrell’s SNP Embezzlement Spree May Have Included Taxpayer Money

Nicola Sturgeon’s ex-husband Peter Murrell had access to millions in taxpayer cash during his 12-year embezzlement campaign, according to the Telegraph. Between 2010 and 2022, when Murrell splashed more than £400,000 from the SNP’s coffers on all kinds of luxury goods, the Electoral Commission paid the party £2.2 million in annual grants. That works out…

Economy
Guido Fawkes28 May 2026

Experts Say Wes Streeting Likely Used AI to Write Guardian Counterattack on Blair

Experts and AI checkers say Wes Streeting most probably used AI to write his piece attacking Tony Blair. Released in the Guardian last night… Streeting’s Guardian riposte includes such phrases as: “But here is the striking weakness at the heart of Tony Blair’s intervention:” “Inequality – the economic, social and democratic fracture running through modern…

Economy
Guido Fawkes28 May 2026

WATCH: Shouty Burnham Adviser Fact-Checked by Former Sainsbury’s CEO on Growth

A two-minute exchange on Peston between Miatta Fahnbulleh MP, the ex-minister and Miliband ally now advising Burnham, and former CEO of Sainsbury’s Justin King. Some facts were checked… Fahnbulleh is now advising Burnham on policy and cut her teeth as head of the capitalism-sceptic New Economics Foundation. The corbynistas are making another move… Her own…

Economy
Guido Fawkes28 May 2026

WATCH: New Labour Grandee Milburn Attacks Reeves’ Tax & Wage Rises in Youth Jobs Crisis

Alan Milburn, former New Labour Health Secretary commissioned by Pat McFadden to produce a report on youth unemployment, has attacked Labour’s tax and wage policies for exacerbating the crisis. His report, out today, suggests there will be 1.25 million young people out of work by 2030… Asked on Sky News about government policies making it…

Economy
Guido Fawkes22 May 2026

EXC: FCDO Chagos Mission Made No Progress Despite Costing Tens of Thousands of Pounds

Last month Guido related how yet another Foreign Office mission to Mauritius – seeking to revive the dead Starmer giveaway – was forced on the British taxpayer. Officials lived it up in sunny Port Louis, lovely work if you can get it… Now exactly four weeks on from the beginning of those in-person negotiations Guido…

Economy
Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

Andy Burnham’s Policy Adviser Supported Nationalisation of Banks & Expropriation of Businesses

An ex-minister who is now advising Andy Burnham on policy has expressed support for a cocktail of far-left proposals that would cripple the economy. You think Reeves proposing food price caps was bad… Miatta Fahnbulleh, who served as a senior economic adviser to Angela Rayner and Ed Miliband before entering government as energy minister and…

Economy
Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

LIVE: Reeves Announces Cost of Living Policies in Commons

After the Fuel Duty U-turn. Watch along…

PoliticsEconomy
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

THE BURNHAM RECEIPTS: Arch-Blairite Andy Supported Reduction in Wealth Taxes

Burnham has had varied views on tax policy. It’s almost as if he doesn’t know what he is talking about and will say anything… When he was Chief Secretary to the Treasury he defended the lower capital gains tax rates introduced by the Blair government. He said that Labour’s reforms represented “the right balance between…

Economy
Guido Fawkes20 May 2026

Net Zero Labour Eases Sanctions on Putin to Buy More Russian Crude

Last night the government waived some Russian oil sanctions to allow imports of diesel and jet fuel from Russian crude processed in third countries. Indian products mostly… Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury Dan Tomlinson could not say he was comfortable with the move on Sky News when asked but did say: “There’s a whole range of…

EconomyEnvironment
Guido Fawkes20 May 2026

UK Inflation Falls to 2.8%

Down from 3.3% in the year to March, and largely the result of the energy price cap kicking in. Expect next month to be much worse…

Economy