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Guido Fawkes2 Jul 2026

Labour Minister Cannot Say If Welfare Spending Should Go Down

Welfare cash transfers are expected to cost £333 billion this year. Defence spending = £62.2 billion under current plans…

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Guido Fawkes1 Jul 2026

Simon’s Sketch: Starmer Snarls and Sinks in His Penultimate, Passionate PMQs

They say people, as they are dying, become more like themselves. Keir was never more himself today in his last living PMQs. He’ll be at NATO next week, and the week after he’ll be standing on the trapdoor waiting for Mr Speaker to say, “And that concludes Keir Starmer.” The House will be in their…

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Guido Fawkes1 Jul 2026

WATCH: Starmer Refuses to Say If He Warned Burnham About Defence Black Hole

Answer: he didn’t…

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Guido Fawkes1 Jul 2026

PMQs: Who’s Asking the Questions?

Al Pinkerton (LIB) Rachel Hopkins (LAB) Mark Sewards (LAB) Alex Ballinger (LAB) Kevin Bonavia (LAB) Michelle Welsh (LAB) Catherine West (LAB) Sarah Russell (LAB) Lewis Atkinson (LAB) Luke Taylor (LIB) Desmond Swayne (CON) Joshua Reynolds (LIB) Lee Anderson (REF) Carla Lockhart (DUP)

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Guido Fawkes1 Jul 2026

Defence Minister Says Starmer’s Black Hole Gift for Burnham Is “Pretty Normal”

Defence minister Luke Pollard defended Starmer for leaving a £4.7 billion black hole in the Defence Investment Plan to be funded by Burnham in his first Budget this year. Pollard told Sky News: “So it’s not unusual for governments to make announcements saying this is what we’ll spend and then to complete the details of…

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Guido Fawkes30 Jun 2026

Starmer Hands Burnham £4.7 Billion Funding Hole in Defence Plan

Starmer has scraped together £10.3 billion over four years, mostly by siphoning off from other departments’ budgets. The funding explainer states that a further £4.7 billion “will be confirmed at Budget 2026.” There you go Andy… There are also £10.7 billion of “efficiencies” which the MOD admits are mostly guesswork. Table 21 in the annex…

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Guido Fawkes30 Jun 2026

Labour Gambling Prohibitionists Try to Tax Working Men’s Clubs

Nanny state Labour-linked think tank the Social Market Foundation and puritanical Labour MPs are back on the warpath against gambling. This time they’re going for – working men’s clubs… SMF is announcing today that it wants Machine Games Duty doubled from 20% to 40% on so-called Category B machines. These machines are found in casinos,…

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Guido Fawkes30 Jun 2026

WATCH: Starmer Attacks Burnham’s Defence Bonds Proposal

Starmer at the launch of his DIP: “You have some people in this debate who underplay the threat and deny the need to prioritise defense and securities. You also have those who say you can fund defence without making sacrifices in other areas of capital spending. And you have those arguing that we can just…

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Guido Fawkes30 Jun 2026

LIVE: Starmer Announces Defence Investment Plan

Starmer is unveiling the Defence Investment Plan. His swan song…

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Guido Fawkes30 Jun 2026

Starmer’s Defence Plan Forces Cuts on Labour’s Military Homes Manifesto Pledge

Labour is cutting funding from its flagship manifesto promise to fix military housing in order to fund the DIP. Net Zero fanatic Miliband, meanwhile, is eyeing up No11… The Times is reporting that Jarvis “freed up £1 billion of savings by delaying plans to expand the cadets and upgrade military homes.” Which means counter to…

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Guido Fawkes30 Jun 2026

Starmer Squeezes MoD Budget for Defence Investment Plan in Underwhelming Swan Song

Starmer is unveiling a reworked Defence Investment Plan today in his swan song as PM. The PM is up at 10.30 a.m. – watch live on these pixels… £15 billion in extra funding over the next four years, up from an initial commitment of £13.5 billion. New Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis did not get any…

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Guido Fawkes29 Jun 2026

Labour Wars: Manchesterism Is a Spectrum

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 our recent debate, Is Britain Broken, featuring Zia Yusuf, Fraser Nelson, and David Frost. Click here to become a member today… The…

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