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Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

Labour Refuses to Publish Last Week’s Ministerial Resignation Letters

Labour is refusing to publish the resignation letters of all the ministers and PPSs who resigned last week. Keen to move on? Asked by Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Alex Burghart if the Cabinet Office would “publish a copy of each resignation letter from Ministers and Parliamentary Private Secretaries who have resigned in…

Politics
Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

Andy Burnham’s Policy Adviser Supported Nationalisation of Banks & Expropriation of Businesses

An ex-minister who is now advising Andy Burnham on policy has expressed support for a cocktail of far-left proposals that would cripple the economy. You think Reeves proposing food price caps was bad… Miatta Fahnbulleh, who served as a senior economic adviser to Angela Rayner and Ed Miliband before entering government as energy minister and…

Economy
Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

Labour Pays American Influencers £110,000 to Promote Special Relationship

The British government has funded American social media influencers to the tune of more than £110,000 to talk up the special relationship. Can be a good way to reach the MAGA crowd if you know which ones to pay… Since 01 January 2025 under five influencers were paid £111,216.75 as part of the “Greater Together” campaign,…

Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

LIVE: Reeves Announces Cost of Living Policies in Commons

After the Fuel Duty U-turn. Watch along…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

Suddenly Departed British Ambassador’s Deputy Handed Honour by Buckingham Palace

In an awkward turn of events James Roscoe, the removed deputy head of mission at the British embassy in Washington, has been handed an honour by Buckingham Palace. Out today: CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD St. James’s Palace, London SW1 20 May 2026 THE KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for…

Defence
Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

Burnham Accuses Media of ‘Skewed Coverage’ on Brexit Stance

Andy Burnham has just sat down for an interview with BBC Radio Manchester. Finally willing to (half) answer some questions… On Brexit, he attempted to push back on the “skewed coverage” of his position, and insisted it wouldn’t be a priority for the next “five or ten years“. Damage control… “I’ve not said that we…

Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

Alastair Campbell Privately Claims He is Being ‘Begged’ to Take a Senior Role in No10

Guido hears Alastair Campbell is going around saying people keep begging for him to go back into No10 to save Starmer. Cloud cuckoo land… Much like his old accomplice turned Starmer hagiographer Tom Baldwin, Bad Al insists on hovering around the Labour operation. He’s got a lot to lost if Starmer goes kaput… Guido sincerely…

Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

Business Activity Falls for First Time in 13 Months

The latest S&P Global Flash UK PMI composite output index dropped to 48.5 in May from 52.6 in April. A 13-month low and well below the 50 expansion threshold… That reading significantly undershot the 51.6 consensus forecast from Reuters-polled economists. Services saw the sharpest activity decline since January 2021, with the overall reading the lowest…

Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

Bad-Tempered Burnham Loses Cool in Clash with Daily Mail’s Christian Calgie

The Mail’s Christian Calgie trekked up to Makerfield this week to follow Reform on the campaign trail. By coincidence, he collided with Andy Burnham in a café. It did not go well. Burnham decided to turn it into a lecture on ‘boundaries’ (during an historic by-election in which he’s trying to defenestrate the Prime Minister)……

Politics
Guido Fawkes21 May 2026

HMRC Stats Show Wes Streeting’s Flagship Tax Idea Would Lose £7 Billion

Wes Streeting has called for a massive hike in Capital Gains Tax as part of his pitch for the leadership. Or the highest office possible under Burnham… Streeting complained to the BBC’s Political Thinking podcast about the tax system and proposed a “wealth tax that works“: “A member of my family is a cleaner in…

PoliticsEconomy
Guido Fawkes20 May 2026

Phillipson Defends Gemma Collins Collaboration After “Kids, This Could Be You” Video

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has pushed back against criticism of her joint video with The Only Way Is Essex star Gemma Collins in the DfE building. The first was released yesterday… In one of the videos released by the government Collins said: “You better make sure, honeys, that whatever you’re going to be learning, you…

Education
Guido Fawkes20 May 2026

Simon’s Sketch: Keir Loosens Up as Labour Looks for Its Next Liability

Esther McVey made the neatest joke on the subject, asking the PM: “Does the Prime Minister agree with Andy Burnham when he says we should rejoin the European Union, or does he agree with Andy Burnham when he says we shouldn’t?” There’s another iteration of the same joke.