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Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

Assisted Suicide Bill Sponsors Embarrass Themselves and Alienate Colleagues

It’s all going wrong for the MPs behind reintroducing the Assisted Suicide Bill in this session. Peter Bedford, one of the MPs to sponsor Lauren Edwards MP’s Private Members Bill – which has Labour MPs tearing their hair out – has been whinging online about “misleading” reporting of his comments to a constituent over the…

PoliticsDefence
Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

Jolyon Will “Rigorously Defend” Defamation Claim Against Him

Jolyon Maugham’s Good Law Project has issued an update: “We can confirm that the barrister Sarah Phillimore has issued in the High Court a claim for defamation against Jolyon Maugham KC. The claim relates to an article Good Law Project published in August 2025 which identified an online onslaught led by Sarah Phillimore, a barrister…

Crime
Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

Burnham’s Unregistered Data Gathering Website Run by Non-Existent Company

Andy Burnham may be measuring the No10 curtains but he hasn’t done all the legal tidying up before he returns to high office. He’s trying to gather email addresses through his campaign site, which could well be useful in any Labour leadership election… The site’s privacy policy nominates “Office of Andy Burnham Ltd” as the…

Politics
Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

Guido Whispers: The Return of… Matt Hancock?

What do Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart really think of each other? Which news broadcaster is launching its own staff ‘academy’? And which ex-Cabinet minister is role-playing as the Prime Minister for a reality TV show (with Matt Hancock as his trusty Foreign Secretary)? To find out, become a Guido member today. Sign up here…

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Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

EXC: New Starmer Social Media Crackdown Imminent as Labour Targets Content Creators

Word reaches Guido that the government intends to publish a green paper on the future of broadcasting in the UK either in the coming week or the week after. More Ofcom expansion and pot shots at right-of-centre outlets incoming… The main news, however, is set to be a range of measures to force private social…

Environment
Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

Jail Sentences Handed Out for Arson Attacks Targeting Starmer’s Property

Roman Lavrynovych and Stanislav Carpiuc have been jailed at the Old Bailey for seven years and two years respectively for plotting a series of arson attacks targeting the Starmer. Brings an end to that brief chapter…

Housing
Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

Starmer Fights for Survival as Burnham Eyes September Takeover

Starmer has just held a call with Labour staff in a panicked attempt to head off talk of Burnham’s inevitable leadership challenge. He has also been ringing Cabinet ministers to urge them against jumping ship. Desperate… He added that the party should now “take Reform on” after Burnham’s comfortable Makerfield win: “The tide is turning…

Politics
Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

Burnham Takes on High-Tax Fanatic as Economic Adviser

Team Burnham briefed Bloomberg and the FT last night that Andy is “being advised” by ex-OBR chairman Richard Hughes, former Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane, former Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill, and Carys Roberts, the former executive director at the IPPR think tank. This was meant to calm the gilt market… Co-conspirators…

Economy
Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

LIVE: Kemi Badenoch Holds Victory Rally After Winning Aberdeen South

Guido Fawkes19 Jun 2026

New Starmer Adviser Harriet Harman Backs Labour MPs’ Leadership Vote

Harriet Harman has told the Today programme she thinks Starmer, Burnham and Streeting should agree on a ‘process’ for a leadership contest, and Labour MPs should have the final say. Just six weeks ago, Starmer appointed Harman as his new ‘Adviser on Women and Girls’ in the wake of Labour’s local election bloodbath. Now she’s…

Politics