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Guido Fawkes26 Apr 2026

Jones Warns Higher Food and Energy Prices Could Last for Eight Months After Iran War

Darren Jones on potential food and fuel shortages resulting from the Iran war: “Our best guess is eight plus months from the point of resolution that you’ll see economic impacts coming through the system… So people will see higher energy prices, food prices […] flight ticket prices as a consequence of what Donald Trump has…

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Express Politics26 Apr 2026

Tax threshold £12,570 freeze update as £220 alert issued and £18k plan gets backing

Labour's decision to freeze income tax thresholds is set to wipe out a £117 reduction in household energy bills says study

Economy
The Guardian Politics26 Apr 2026

UK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentres

Discrepancy in forecasts raises questions over government planning for net zero One vision of the UK’s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy. Another involves making the UK an AI superpower. The government departments responsible for these two visions do not appear to have agreed on their numbers. Continue reading...

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Express Politics25 Apr 2026

Rachel Reeves issued blunt warning after 'catastrophic' tax raid sparks crisis

The future of the country's whisky, spirits and gin producers is under threat from a policy which has 'led to the Treasury losing money'

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Express Politics25 Apr 2026

'Ed Miliband is sleepwalking UK into economic self-sabotage and Brits will pay the price'

Britain is 'sleepwalking' into an energy crisis as a result of 'Ed Miliband's net zero theology' which critics say endangers the UK's remaining refinineries

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The Guardian Politics25 Apr 2026

Unlucky chancellor? Iran shock hits Reeves just as UK seemed to turn corner

The economy and public finances were on the right path, bond yields were falling, interest rates likely to drop further … then came the US-Israeli attack Donald Trump’s war on Iran is “folly”; shadow chancellor Mel Stride should be “lined up for the sack”; and the Liberal Democrat Daisy Cooper’s plan for managing fuel shortages is “fundamentally economically illiterate”. Rachel Reeves has always relished a political fight, but in recent days she has been swinging at her opponents with what looks

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Guido Fawkes24 Apr 2026

British Taxpayer Funds US Agencies to Fill Gap Left by Trump’s USAID Cuts

The FCDO is expanding support to US-based aid agencies who have had their grants slashed by Trump’s USAID cuts. British taxpayers are filling in the gaps… USAID cuts reduced total US aid spending from $68bn in 2024 to $32bn in 2025 and terminated 83% of programmes. Despite a squeeze in the UK’s aid funding, the…

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Guido Fawkes24 Apr 2026

‘Is Britain Broken?’ An EXCLUSIVE Guido Fawkes-IEA Event

For the first time ever, Guido Fawkes is partnering with the Institute of Economic Affairs for an exclusive panel debate in the heart of Westminster this June. Is Britain Broken? Britain’s economic record over the past decade and a half makes for uncomfortable reading. Productivity growth has flatlined. Real wages have barely recovered from the…

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Guido Fawkes24 Apr 2026

Lord Hannan Appointed IEA Director General

Daniel Hannan is succeeding David Frost as Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs. He starts on 1st June. Hannan said this afternoon: “The IEA set Britain free. When it was founded in 1955, there was a consensus in favour of high spending, industrial management and economic planning. Ralph Harris and Arthur Seldon showed…

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The Guardian Politics24 Apr 2026

Britain should seek to rejoin EU, says civil servant who led Brexit department

Philip Rycroft says promises on issues from economics to immigration have not lived up to expectations Britain should start talking about rejoining the EU, according to a former senior civil servant who ran the Brexit department. Philip Rycroft, who was permanent secretary of the Department for Exiting the EU, said the “argument was there to be won” about going back into Europe, adding that a “clear-headed appraisal of what is in the country’s best interests” was needed. However, he said rejoini

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Express Politics24 Apr 2026

Angela Rayner as PM spells disaster – she’d wreck economy WORSE than Rachel Reeves

Rachel Reeves has made a dog's dinner of the economy. What follows will be even worse.

Economy
Guido Fawkes24 Apr 2026

Trump Threatens UK With New Tariffs if Starmer Doesn’t Cut Tax

Donald Trump has threatened to impose new tariffs on Britain if it does not disapply the Digital Services Tax on US companies. Trump told the Telegraph: “I don’t like it when they target American companies, because basically, you’re talking about our great American companies, whether we like those companies that don’t like them, they’re American…

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