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Guido Fawkes14 May 2026

Stalking Horse Catherine West: Starmer Has ‘Excellent Credentials’ and Should Defend Leadership in Contest

Catherine West – who kicked off the Rickety Coup by collecting MP names and demanding a leadership contest – on The World at One has suggested she would vote for Keir Starmer in a leadership contest: “What I would like to see is the honest conversation and people coming forward, including the Prime Minister if…

Defence
Guido Fawkes14 May 2026

BREAKING: Wes Streeting Resigns as Health Secretary

Wes Streeting has resigned. Grab the popcorn… Says he’s lost confidence in Starmer’s leadership and that staying in post would be “dishonourable and unprincipled“. Blames the government’s unpopularity for Labour losses, citing winter fuel cut and the “island of strangers” speech as evidence the party doesn’t know what it stands for. Praises Starmer for the…

Guido Fawkes14 May 2026

Tories Enter Coalition With Greens & LibDems to Seize Worcestershire Council From Reform

Some intriguing moves taking place in local politics while Westminster waits for the next developments in the Rickety Coup. The Tories have found a new partner in crime… Over at Worcestershire County Council the Reform Party’s minority administration has been booted out of power this morning after 12 months because Tory councillors formed a rival…

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Guido Fawkes14 May 2026

POLL: Streeting Would Lose Head-to-Head Labour Leadership Race Against Starmer

New polling from Survation in LabourList shows Streeting would take just 23 percent of the vote among 1,123 Labour members in a head-to-head contest against Starmer, who would cruise to victory on 53%. Not even close… In fact, Starmer would also win against Al Carns, Darren Jones, Bridget Phillipson, Louise Haigh, Yvette Cooper, Shabana Mahmood…

Guido Fawkes14 May 2026

Rickety Coup Becomes Game of Chicken

A very wide briefing from camp Streeting says that the Health Secretary has the numbers to mount a unilateral challenge, but that “things are shifting” and some Cabinet ministers are set to resign today and/or call for the PM to go. Starmer fans are accusing Wes’ people of trying to push the Cabinet into making…

Politics
Guido Fawkes14 May 2026

Labour Tax Expert Dan Neidle Says HMRC’s Exoneration of Rayner Is ‘Generous’ and ‘Hard to Understand’

A prominent tax expert has questioned HMRC’s decision to exonerate Angela Rayner over her tax affairs. Serious questions for the taxman… Dan Neidle of Tax Policy Associates – who was until recently a member of the NCC, the Labour Party’s most senior disciplinary body – says HMRC’s decision that Rayner did not act in a…

Economy
Guido Fawkes14 May 2026

Streeting Meets NHS Waiting List Target

NHS stats out this morning are happy news for Wes Streeting: 65.3% of patients treated within 18 weeks by March. Meeting the interim target – just… Overall NHS waiting list has also fallen to 7.11 million. Half a million down… Streeting said: “Our plan for the NHS is working. This is the biggest cut in…

Healthcare
Guido Fawkes14 May 2026

IN FULL: All 166 Labour MPs Set to Lose Their Seat At Next Election

Reform’s internal polling suggests 166 Labour MPs (167 if poor Karl Turner is let back in) would lose their seats at the next election, including seven Cabinet ministers. Guido has the data… Yvette Cooper, Bridget Phillipson, Lisa Nandy, Jonathan Reynolds, Pat McFadden, and even Angela Rayner are all under threat from Reform. David Lammy would…

Politics
Guido Fawkes14 May 2026

Housing Secretary Slams Jess Phillips: ‘It Takes a Minister to Drive Their Own Agenda Through’

Housing Secretary and chief Starmer loyalist Steve Reed has issued a blistering counter-attack on Jess Phillips, who resigned as safeguarding minister on Tuesday. Couldn’t happen to a nicer person… Phillips blamed Starmer in her letter for not getting new regulations through to protect children, specifically mentioning one idea of hers which involved monitoring every image…

Housing
Guido Fawkes14 May 2026

GDP Grows by 0.6% in First Quarter

New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that UK GDP in the first quarter grew by 0.6%. In line with expectations following growth in Q4 2024 of 0.2%… The largest growth came from services on 0.8%. The ONS says: “Real GDP per head is estimated to have increased by 0.6% in Quarter 1…

Economy
Guido Fawkes14 May 2026

Angela Rayner Says She Has Been Cleared by HMRC

Angela Rayner has entered the leadership conflict this morning. With a bang… Rayner has spoken to ITV to say she has no deal with Andy Burnham and that she would not trigger a leadership contest: “I’ve made it clear that I wasn’t going to trigger the prime minister – and that I want to see…

Guido Fawkes13 May 2026

Simon’s Sketch: Starmer’s Serene Self-Delusion at the Despatch Box May Save Him Yet

Now we can add a new face to the PM’s gallery of faces. His brave face got its first outing. It looks no different from his disgusted face or indeed his face of soaring inspiration, but brave it was, in the circumstances, to be so unmoved by the catastrophic council results, the revulsion of his…

Housing