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Guido Fawkes27 Mar 2026

Guido Whispers: Brown in Town…

Members get access to Guido Whispers every Friday. This week’s edition is jam-packed. For all the latest gossip swirling around Westminster and beyond, join us today by clicking here. Get tomorrow’s news, today. A few of last week’s Whispers appeared in the dead tree press several days later…

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Guido Fawkes27 Mar 2026

Commons Report Puts Elon Musk in Same Bracket as Russia and Iran for ‘Disinformation’

Another moral panic report is out from one of Parliament’s committees – this time on the threat of foreign disinformation. What about the threat of disinformation from Keir Starmer? Anyway, the document, from the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee, cites evidence it received that “Elon Musk’s influence is potentially greater in the UK than that…

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Guido Fawkes27 Mar 2026

Starmer Rams Lords With Labour Cronies as He Exceeds Ten Years of Tory Appointments

A side note to the emerging story today that Starmer is set to make failing Mayor of London Sadiq Khan a peer to buy his silence after the expected Labour implosion at this summer’s local elections. Starmer has form when it comes to peerage appointments… For all the hand-wringing about Tory proposals over the years,…

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Guido Fawkes27 Mar 2026

‘Dozens’ of Labour MPs Privately Demand Starmer Waters Down Net Zero Policy

Steve Yemm has told GB News’s Christopher Hope that up to 40 of his fellow Labour MPs have written privately to senior Cabinet ministers demanding a rethink of Miliband’s plan to end sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030. Nearly one in ten of the PLP… Speaking on Chopper’s Political Podcast, Yemm said:…

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Guido Fawkes27 Mar 2026

Starmer Set to Make Sadiq Khan a Lord

According to the FT, Starmer plans to buy off Sadiq Khan’s loyalty with a peerage after the local elections. The same local elections in which Labour expects a walloping… Starmer has already appointed more peers than his last four predecessors. There is even talk of giving Khan a Cabinet role to keep him happy. Of…

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Guido Fawkes26 Mar 2026

Bursting the Bubble: Countdown to the Locals…

Welcome to Bursting the Bubble, the data deep-dive that tells you what’s really happening outside the Westminster village. Exclusively for Guido members… Get access to Guido’s own poll of polls, and an instant breakdown of all the latest electoral data across Britain, by becoming a member today.

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Guido Fawkes26 Mar 2026

King’s Speech Set for 13th May, Days After Local Elections

The King’s Speech will be delivered on 13th May, just six days after the local elections. Labour is expecting a bloodbath. Number 10 hoping this will make it harder for any ambitious Cabinet minister to immediately call for Starmer’s head…

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Guido Fawkes26 Mar 2026

MPs’ Register of Interests: Farage Coins It on Cameo and Rayner Rakes It In

The latest update to the Register of Members’ Financial Interests is out. See who has the deepest pockets… Nigel Farage trousered £42,549 from his Cameo video recordings, which must have upset the Guardian. His attempted trip to the Chagos islands – Farage registered it as a “humanitarian aid mission” – cost £25,000, courtesy of Reform…

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Guido Fawkes25 Mar 2026

Simon’s Sketch: Bombastic-Fantastic, the PM’s Resurrection Is Horrible To Behold

The PM’s increasingly unbearable Commons performances are going down remarkably well among his backbenches. Today, they joined him in a congregational chorus of Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! when encouraged to hate the leader of the Opposition (how unBritish these public prayer meetings are). Starmer’s turnaround is extraordinary. Tory Peter Fortune noted that as parliament was heading…

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Guido Fawkes25 Mar 2026

Now It’s Miliband’s Turn for a Glossy New Statesman Profile

Ed Miliband scores the cover interview for this week’s New Statesman. He finally joins the ever-growing list of Labour MPs who have, by pure coincidence, decided now is the time for a puff piece in which they pontificate about Labour’s problems, speak wistfully about their childhoods, and pose for weird pictures. If you want a…

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Guido Fawkes25 Mar 2026

Labour to Suspend Crypto Donations to Political Parties to ‘Protect Democracy’

Starmer has confirmed to the Commons that the government will follow the recommendations from a review by Philip Rycroft to cap foreign donations to political parties at £300,000, and temporarily block all donations received via cryptocurrency: “I can tell the house, we will act decisively to protect our democracy. That will include a moratorium on…

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Guido Fawkes25 Mar 2026

Ex-Tory MP Crispin Blunt Pleads Guilty to Possession of Cannabis and Crystal Meth

Blunt pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to four charges of possession of drugs, including cannabis and crystal meth. Nominative determinism in action…

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