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Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026

Chagos Legal Battle Set to Resume on Friday

Interesting news from the British Indian Ocean Territory Supreme Court this morning that it rejected permission for a full judicial review on the grounds of the rights of Chagossians to be consulted about Starmer’s deal. It was never the main legal action or the key grounds, it was merely a warm-up… There will now be…

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Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026

Ofcom Chairman Frontrunner Hodge’s Close Relationship With the Starmers

Labour peer and former minister Margaret Hodge is frontrunner to take over Ofcom as chairman, replacing Lord Grade whose term ended in April. Hodge has a closer past relationship with the Starmer family than many SW1 watchers will realise… Previously unreported is her relationship to the Starmers. After qualifying as a solicitor in 2001 Lady…

Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026

LIVE: Darren Jones Announces Digital ID Launch in Commons

The ‘Chief Secretary to the PM’ says he wants a “national conversation” on Digital ID. Will be a brief one… A further press conference is planned for 3 p.m.

Politics
Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026

WATCH: Reeves Insists Fuel Prices Are Low Enough to Proceed With 5p Hike

Reeves has insisted just now in the House of Commons that the 5p fuel duty rise remains “under review” but poured cold water on calls to scrap the tax hike. She blamed the Tories and said oil prices are falling: “Well, the price today of of petrol is 8p per litre lower than if I…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026

Labour MPs Consider Defecting to Greens After Gorton and Denton Wipeout

Labour MPs are having their heads turned by Zack Polanski now the polls show the Greens are taking chunks out of the Labour vote. The Telegraph reports “at least one” Labour MP was approached by the whips on suspicion of defecting, with a ‘Green Party source’ taking real pleasure in milking the moment. Although they…

PoliticsEnvironment
Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026

LIVE: Reform Pledges to Cut Fuel Bills

Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick are “cutting fuel prices for the day at a petrol station in Derbyshire.” They’ve branded up a petrol station for it…

Reform
Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026

Bridget Phillipson Celebrates Commons Vote That Never Happened

Bridget Phillipson stuck out a post last night attacking the Tories and Reform for not voting with Labour on free school meals: Labour MPs just voted to expand free school meals to half a million more children, lifting 100,000 children out of poverty. The Tories and Reform UK voted against. Only Labour will give children…

PoliticsReform
Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026

Labour Inadvertently Hands Bankers New Path to Multi-Million Tribunal Payouts

In what must be the perfect case study in the law of unintended consequences, Labour’s new Employment Rights Act (ERA) gives top bankers the chance to rake in millions in dismissal payouts with the scrapping of the compensation cap. Chants of “thank you Angie!” can be heard emanating from the City for the first time…

Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026

Britain Deploys Auxiliary Support Ship to Eastern Mediterranean

Reports are emerging that the RFA Lyme Bay – part of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary – has now been routed to the Eastern Mediterranean. HMS Dragon has still not left port… Lyme Bay is currently in Gibraltar. It is a sealift ship capable of transporting a variety of assets – and people – and is…

Housing
Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026

Reform Vows to Axe Reeves’ 5p Fuel Duty Hike By Scrapping Net Zero Billions

Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick have told the Sun they’d scrap £13.5 billion in net zero spending to reverse Reeves’ hike to fuel duty due September: “Reform would cut £13.5billion in bonkers green schemes. And we’d use that money to do what Reeves should but won’t — cut your bills. That starts with scrapping this…

EnvironmentReform
Guido Fawkes9 Mar 2026

Labour Wars: Don’t-Know-Darren in the Doghouse

Guido members get exclusive access to Labour Wars, the inside track on what’s really happening at the top of government. Fawkes Friends and Premium Plotters also receive priority tickets to all our events, like last week’s Save Chagos Boat Party. Click here to become a member today… What was behind Rachel Reeves’ Commons meltdown last…

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