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Guido Fawkes16 Apr 2026

Rayner to Hit London Campaign Trail With Favourite Leftist Minister

Rayner is picking her local election campaign partners carefully. Only allies… Housing minister Miatta Fahnbulleh has been sending out the invites to Labour members with the title: “Get the Vote Out with Anegla Rayner & Miatta Fahnbulleh.“ Yes, that is her typo – so much for friendship… Fahnbulleh is former chief executive of the leftist…

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Guido Fawkes16 Apr 2026

VOTE NOW: The Guido Fawkes Reform Power Rankings (April Edition)

Every month, we’ll publish the power rankings of all the leading lights in the party based on our readers’ responses. Click here to fill in the survey, and the results will be published next week. Here’s how last month played out… 1 Nigel Farage 10.68 2 Richard Tice 8.52 3 Danny Kruger 8.20 4 Robert…

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Guido Fawkes16 Apr 2026

Business Secretary Heckled by Furious Labour Backbencher Over Industrial Energy Prices

Business Secretary Peter Kyle has been heckled by a prominent backbench Labour MP after the government failed to provide any support for the dying British ceramics industry in the latest subsidy announcement. Gareth Snell – who has voiced concerns on behalf of ceramics for some time – asked Kyle: “How many job losses will it take?…

Guido Fawkes16 Apr 2026

Downing Street Refuses to Back Streeting’s Call to Cut Welfare to Boost Defence Spending

Number 10’s spokesman today, asked if Starmer supports Wes Streeting’s call to slash welfare spending to fund defence: “The best way to get the welfare bill down in the long term is to support more people into work and I’ve set out a number of ways in which we’re doing that… we are committed to…

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Guido Fawkes16 Apr 2026

WATCH: Starmer Reads Entirely From Notes to Meeting of Seven People

Starmer struggled through his opening remarks on child safety at a Downing Street meeting of social media executives this morning. What was it like when the cameras stopped rolling… This is what Starmer had to say: “But things can’t go on like this. They must change. Because right now social media is putting our children…

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Guido Fawkes16 Apr 2026

Foreign Office Officials Visiting Mauritius Despite Collapse of Starmer’s Chagos Deal

The government of Mauritius has said it is “tired of relying on the goodwill of others” and will “escalate matters” within months if it is not handed sovereignty of the Chagos Islands. Without that cash from British taxpayers how can Mauritius abolish income tax? The Attorney-General of Mauritius Gavin Glover has told local broadcasters: “Mauritius…

Economy
Guido Fawkes16 Apr 2026

UK Trade Gap More Than Doubles as Exports Collapse

HMRC figures out today show UK goods exports fell 21.6% year-on-year in February, dragging the trade deficit to £31 billion. More than double the £14.2 billion recorded a year earlier… Firms are selling less to the rest of the world because Labour has made it more expensive to employ people and more expensive to invest.…

Guido Fawkes16 Apr 2026

Business Secretary Pre-Emptively ‘Frustrated’ at GDP Downturn from Iran War

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that the economy grew by 0.5% in February, following upwardly revised growth of 0.1% in January. The Iran war beginning on the 27th of February will have something to say about March’s figures… ONS chief economist Grant Fitzner said: “Growth increased further in the three months to…

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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Green Party Fails to Delete Candidate’s Videos ‘Blaming Israel’ for Bondi Beach Tragedy and Attack on RAF Base

A Green candidate in the local elections has failed to delete numerous videos on his social media despite the party promising they would be removed. The party has also kept him on as a candidate despite being alerted to his posts by the press days before close of nominations last Thursday… Mark Adderley, a Green…

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Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Simon’s Sketch: Our National Embarrassment Red Faced With Anger and Possibly Shame

The Sketch will always speak up for the underdog – the disparaged, the dismissed, the bullied, the vulnerable. President Tump has few supporters in Parliament these days, so in the spirit of Ofcom, let us try for some balance. Ed Davey referred to the President threatening to rip up the UK’s trade deal as a…

Politics
Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Croissants Banned, Kebabs Cleared in Labour’s Pointless Junk Food Ad Ban

The first rulings under Labour’s junk food ad ban are in. A Lidl Instagram post featuring croissants and cheese pretzels has been banned. An ad for German Doner Kebab featuring an “Inferno OG chicken kebab” and a “chicken doner burrito” has been cleared. So according to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), croissants are junk food,…

Guido Fawkes15 Apr 2026

Government Considers Early Prorogation of Parliament

The King’s Speech – opening the new parliamentary session – is on 13 May, just days after the Local Elections on the 7th of the month. Guido hears the government is considering an early prorogation of parliament – potentially as early as Tuesday… Briefings fired at the time the State Opening of Parliament was confirmed…

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