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Guido Fawkes23 Apr 2026

Blue Labour Ringleader: We Have to Look at Where Next After the Locals

Speaking to BBC Newsnight the Blue Labour group’s primary ringleader Dan Carden suggested that the local elections will be game over for Starmer. Asked if he had confidence in the PM, Carden said: “He’ll take us into the local elections and I think that will be a moment where the public have been consulted and…

Politics
Guido Fawkes23 Apr 2026

LIVE: Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary Launches Counter-Attack on Sacked Robbins

Cat Little is up at the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. A key actor in the Mandelson drama…

Politics
Guido Fawkes23 Apr 2026

Tories Push for Starmer to be Referred to the Privileges Committee Over Commons Claims

The Tories, supported by the LibDems and the SNP, are pressing Lindsay Hoyle to refer Starmer to the Privileges Committee. Sound familiar? Badenoch claims Starmer misled the house by saying “due process” was followed in the Mandelson appointment. Starmer also claimed in the Commons with regard to Olly Robbins and Mandelson’s appointment that “no pressure…

Politics
Guido Fawkes23 Apr 2026

UK’s National Crime Agency Reviewed Fresh Mandelson-Epstein Claims in 2024

The FT reports the National Crime Agency (NCA) reviewed fresh allegations about Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein as late as spring 2024, just months before Starmer appointed him as US ambassador. Downing Street was informed in the summer of 2024… A senior British official arranged a meeting between the NCA and an American human rights activist…

PoliticsCrime
Guido Fawkes22 Apr 2026

LIVE: Farage ‘Keynote’ Local Election Speech

Farage is at the Dodworth Central Social Club to make his “keynote campaign speech” of the local elections after a UK-wide tour. Watch along…

PoliticsReform
Guido Fawkes22 Apr 2026

Andy Burnham Copies Rayner With London Campaign Spree

Ambitious Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham is campaigning in London with allies of Angela Rayner. Politics Home reports that Burnham is to head to Islington and Lewisham to do some door-to-door campaigning. Curiously Guido can report that three days after Angela Rayner went door-knocking in Peckham with leftist housing minister Miatta Fahbulleh, Burnham is doing…

PoliticsHousing
Guido Fawkes22 Apr 2026

Government Delays and Promises to Change Starmer’s Hated Troubles Bill

Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn has announced in a written Commons statement that the reviled Troubles Bill will be amended and delayed before reappearing in the next parliamentary session. He said: “In recent months I, along with the Prime Minister, the Defence Secretary, the Attorney General and the Armed Forces Minister, have been consulting widely…

PoliticsDefence
Guido Fawkes22 Apr 2026

Morgan McSweeney to Appear Before Foreign Affairs Committee

The Guardian reports that Starmer’s ex-Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney will appear before the Foreign Affairs Select Committee next Tuesday. Cabinet Office perm sec Cat Little is up tomorrow to counter Olly Robbins…

Politics
Guido Fawkes22 Apr 2026

Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary in Discussions to Leave Government Role

Guido can reveal that Cabinet Office permanent secretary Cat Little is due to leave her role. Labour’s efforts to replace personnel in the hulking Cabinet Office continue… Guido first reported on concerns around Little’s performance in summer last year when a Downing Street source noted that she “seems to promise the earth all the time…

Politics
Guido Fawkes22 Apr 2026

McFadden Repeatedly Refuses to Back Starmer’s Sacking of Olly Robbins

An excruciating morning round for Pat McFadden. First on Times Radio, where he was asked three times if it was “fair” for Starmer to sack Olly Robbins. Eventually, the blood from a stone answer came: “Look, of course as a Cabinet member, I support the Prime Minister’s decisions. He took the decision he couldn’t continue…

Politics
Guido Fawkes21 Apr 2026

Matthew Doyle Denies Lobbying for Ambassador Job

Matthew Doyle this afternoon: “I have never sought any head of mission, ambassador or any equivalent leadership-type posting. I was never aware of anyone speaking to the FCDO about such a role for me. My desire after leaving No 10 was to stay in UK politics.” ICYMI: Downing Street Doesn’t Deny Trying to Give Doyle…

PoliticsDefence
Guido Fawkes21 Apr 2026

LIVE: Emergency Commons Debate on Mandelson Vetting

Granted to the Tories yesterday and to be fronted by Badenoch. Yet another headache for the government…

Politics