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Labour Minister Cannot Say If Welfare Spending Should Go Down
7+ hour, 52+ min ago (80+ words) Guido Fawkes Welfare cash transfers are expected to cost "333 billion this year. Defence spending = "62. 2 billion under current plans" Badenoch said at her speech on Monday morning: "We are absolutely ready to fight a general election. We say the results in…...
Labour Launches Review of Whats App in Government After Mandelson Scandal
2+ hour, 38+ min ago (121+ words) Guido Fawkes Darren Jones has announced a review into the use of Whats App in government. Good luck" The terms of reference for the review into non-corporate communication channels, led by former chief scientific adviser to the government Anthony Finkelstein:…...
Shabana Mahmood Accepts All Recommendations of Southport Inquiry
4+ hour, 53+ min ago (191+ words) The Southport Inquiry identified fundamental failings, across many of our public services, in the years leading up to July 2024. These devastating failures led to the senseless killing of three young girls and violent attacks on others. My thoughts today are…...
WATCH: Starmer Apologises for Historic Adoptions Scandal
4+ hour, 55+ min ago (114+ words) Guido Fawkes Starmer is in the Commons to formally apologise for the forced adoption scandal, in which an estimated 185, 000 unmarried mothers who, between the 1950s and 1970s, were pressured or coerced into surrendering their babies. A 2022 parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights…...
Average Brit's Wealth Suffers Biggest Slump of Any Rich Country
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (179+ words) Guido Fawkes UBS has surveyed 37 rich countries " British families have endured the biggest fall in wealth of any of them since the pandemic. Thanks, Rachel" The average Briton's wealth has fallen by more than a fifth over the last five…...
Simon's Sketch: Starmer Snarls and Sinks in His Penultimate, Passionate PMQs
1+ day, 15+ min ago (183+ words) Guido Fawkes They say people, as they are dying, become more like themselves. Keir was never more himself today in his last living PMQs. He'll be at NATO next week, and the week after he'll be standing on the trapdoor…...
Labour Gambling Prohibitionists Try to Tax Working Men's Clubs
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (295+ words) 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…...
Andy Burnham Denies He Will Be the First Female Labour Prime Minister
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (252+ words) Andy Burnham told the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party today that he won't tolerate "sexist briefings' and will fire anyone caught doing it. Echoes of Starmer " briefing happens" At a meeting of the group where it was demanded half of all…...
Burnham's Head Policy Adviser Struggles to Explain His Devolution Plan
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (557+ words) Miatta Fahnbulleh, the resigned minister who co-conspirators will know well, is Burnham's main policy adviser right now. She is reportedly managing the "spreadsheet" of policies to be enacted by Andy Burnham on his entry to No10. Here is her on the…...
Starmer Squeezes Mo D Budget for Defence Investment Plan in Underwhelming Swan Song
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (285+ words) 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…...