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Guido Fawkes10 Jul 2026

Ofcom Chief Executive’s Inflation-Busting Pay Rise Takes Her Salary to Almost £500,000

Ofcom’s annual report and accounts for 2025/26 shows that its chief executive took home a whopping £478,784. Up from £455,324 the year before – her salary and allowances rose by an inflation-busting 4.87%… Total staff costs jumped by 10% to £153.1 million which is two-thirds of all operating expenditure. Headcount rose to 1,665 from 1,557,…

Economy
Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

Wealth Tax Campaigner Gary Stevenson: I’m Quitting

Gary Stevenson has only been doing this for five years. A surprising way to go for someone who declared just last week that he was “one of the best, if not the best, inequality economists in the world.” Unless of course this is another grift for Gary’s Egonomics…

Economy
Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

REPORT: Leave ECHR and Introduce Comprehensive Free Speech Bill

Britain is in a “free speech recession” according to a new paper from the Prosperity Institute written by barrister Jon Holbrook. He contends that the Race Relations Act 1965, which first criminalised “stirring up racial hatred,” and the Public Order Act 1986 – which criminalised words “likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress” without any link…

EconomyCrime
Guido Fawkes8 Jul 2026

EXC: Labour Buys Quarter of a Million Pounds Worth of Jaguars Today

Labour is buying more Jaguars. Does one of them have John Prescott memorial livery? A new contract completed today and uncovered by the TaxPayers’ Alliance shows that the Government Car Service is purchasing £237,864.06 worth of Jaguars for delivery no later than 31st October 2026. Just in time for Burnham… Rhys Hurley, investigative lead at…

Economy
Guido Fawkes8 Jul 2026

Burnham Policy Chief’s ‘Hobby Horse’ Plan to Hand Out ‘Free Basic Energy’ Costing Tens of Billions

The “hobby horse” of Andy Burnham’s transition policy chief is a “free basic energy” subsidy which would cost tens of billions of pounds per year. Here we go again… Figures who have worked with ex-energy and housing minister Miatta Fahnbulleh expect her to revive a policy she championed at the New Economics Foundation, of which…

EconomyHousing
Guido Fawkes7 Jul 2026

Reform Offers to Cover the Cost of Farage’s By-Election

Reform has offered to cover the cost of the Clacton by-election for the taxpayer. Nigel Farage says: “I have spoken to the CEO of Tendring District Council. Reform has offered to cover the cost of the by-election. I will be writing to Rachel Reeves later today with the same message. Given that we asked for…

PoliticsEconomyReform
Guido Fawkes7 Jul 2026

OBR: Labour Tax & Spend Has Made British Economy Unsustainable

The OBR has published a new report looking at the sustainability of the public finances via scenarios for tax, spending, and debt over 50 years. It’s not pretty… It runs scenarios for state finances. Some key findings: Debt hits 300% of GDP by the 2070s on current policy. In the OBR’s baseline, public sector net debt…

EconomyHousing
Guido Fawkes3 Jul 2026

Burnham’s Nationalisation Would Cost At Least £30 Billion for Thames Water Alone

Earlier Guido totted up the known ‘Burnham Bill‘ – what a Manchesterist administration would cost the British taxpayer. All likely to kick in come September… Burnham is a wild advocate of nationalisation. As Guido noted, his pet policy to bring the water industry into ‘public ownership’ would cost at least £100 billion according to the…

Economy
Guido Fawkes3 Jul 2026

EXC: Andy Burnham Backed Campaign by His Policy Chief to Increase Benefits Spending by £90 Billion

Incoming PM Andy Burnham backed a campaign by his transition policy chief – then a think tank director – to hike benefits spending by £90 billion. Funded by massive tax increases… Andy Burnham’s transition policy chief Miatta Fahnbulleh made clear to Sky News that cutting welfare by reducing cash handouts or eligibility is off the…

Economy
Guido Fawkes3 Jul 2026

Burnham’s Spending Commitments So Far Add Up to More Than £250 Billion

Guido has done cost estimates of Burnham’s spending commitments and inherited black holes so far. It’s not pretty: Defence Investment Plan: Budget allocated-spending and unallocated efficiency savings: £15 billion. “The biggest council house building programme since the postwar period.” Late 1970s benchmark was circa 40,000 council house completions per year. Annual cost now: £8 –…

EconomyDefence
Guido Fawkes3 Jul 2026

Team Burnham Suggests Large Spending Increases to Avoid Cutting Welfare Bill

Andy Burnham is setting out his stall on welfare in more detail. Spend more taxpayer cash… He said on last night’s 15-minute Andrew Marr softball interview: “I’m not going to go with the crude cuts to benefit levels that then just put people who are struggling in even worse poverty, and that often creates the…

Economy
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…

EconomyDefence