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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…

EconomyDefence
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,…

PoliticsEconomyDefence
Guido Fawkes30 Jun 2026

Burnham’s ‘No10 North’ Gimmick Could Cost More Than Half a Billion Pounds

Guido has looked at comparable costs of starting new campuses and come up with some estimates for Burnham’s No10 North: Secure building: £120-£300 million. The Darlington Economic Campus, a civil service hub for the Treasury, cost £118 to set up. Burnham’s version will likely need enhanced blast protection, a secure and policed perimeter, as well…

EconomyCrime
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…

EconomyDefence
Guido Fawkes29 Jun 2026

LIVE: Burnham’s First Major Speech on Economy

No questions…

Economy
Guido Fawkes29 Jun 2026

New Analysis Shows Hiking CGT to Income Tax Levels Will Actually Cost Treasury Billions

New analysis shows that raising Capital Gains Tax to Income Tax levels, the tax idea unifying the ‘soft left’, would lose billions. Something something Laffer Curve… CGT is currently either 18% or 24%. Following numerous leftist think tanks’ repeated pleas Wes Streeting proposed raising it in line with Income Tax levels. Convicted fraudster Louise Haigh…

EconomyHousing
Guido Fawkes29 Jun 2026

LIVE: Badenoch Sets Out “Economic Tests” for Burnham in Speech

And she’s taking questions…

Economy
Guido Fawkes29 Jun 2026

‘Master Communicator’ Burnham Refuses to Take Any Questions at First Press Conference

Andy Burnham is refusing to answer questions at the first press conference designed to ease people’s concerns about his opacity. Who could have foreseen this? He will give a speech at around 11:30 a.m. in Manchester designed to inform people what his economic views are. The trail goes something like this: He will explain his…

Economy
Guido Fawkes27 Jun 2026

Guido’s Most Read Stories This Week

This week 1,015,329 visitors visited 916,444 times viewing 928,734 pages. The most read and shared stories in order of popularity were: Burnham Advisers Propose Exit Tax Badenoch in Angry Confrontation With Bridget Phillipson After PMQs Barb Prominent Restore Supporters Turn on Rupert Lowe The Many Accents of SNP’s Newest MP Starmer Met With Torrent of…

EconomyHousingRupert Lowe
Guido Fawkes26 Jun 2026

EXC: Top Mahmood Adviser’s Proposal for a Huge Country-Wide Carbon Tax

Guido has been examining what a Mahmoodian chancellorship would look like. An intriguing proposal from her top SpAd in 2021 suggested an economy-wide carbon tax… The written-up briefings about Shabana Mahmood being desperate to stay in the Home Office are not necessarily accurate. Her own SpAd team was briefing about how keen Burnhamites are for…

EconomyEnvironment
Guido Fawkes26 Jun 2026

Labour’s ‘Cost of Living Champion’ Says Miliband Would Be “A Disaster” as Chancellor

Iceland boss and Labour’s ‘cost of living champion’ Lord Walker speaking on Newsnight last night on the prospect of Chancellor Ed Miliband: “He’d be a disaster. I think, listen, of course, you know, I’m speaking on the hottest June on record. Climate change is real. I believe in science. But I think how we’re going…

EconomyEnvironment
Guido Fawkes25 Jun 2026

HMRC Admits It Is Guessing the Size of the Tobacco Black Market

HMRC this week declared victory in the war on illegal tobacco after claiming the duty gap for hand-rolling tobacco fell to an all-time low in 2024/25. They also admitted they are making up the figures themselves… The taxman’s report concedes the 2024/25 tobacco figures are “projected” rather than measured because of “data availability and small…

EconomyDefence