Downing Street Refuses to Say It Wants to Cut the Welfare Bill

Dec. 1st, 2025 05:00 pm
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The Number 10 spokesman has refused to say on the record that the Prime Minister wants to cut the gigantic welfare bill, despite holding a pointless press conference this morning in which Starmer claimed the UK needs a “productivity revolution“. And then announced virtually nothing to achieve that… Now his spokesman is being similarly opaque.…

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Blairite Fixer-in-Chief Charlie Falconer U-Turns on Opposition to Scrapping Jury Trials

Dec. 1st, 2025 04:59 pm
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Posted by Max Young

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Blairite veteran and former Justice Secretary Charlie Falconer has reversed his position on whether or not to scrap jury trials. Just so happens to occur when Labour wants to do it… Falconer placed a hefty piece in the Telegraph over the weekend concluding that the ancient right to a jury trial should indeed be scrapped:…

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WATCH: Starmer Becomes First PM in History Not to Turn on No10 Christmas Tree Lights

Dec. 1st, 2025 04:36 pm
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Posted by Eleanor Wheatley

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Starmer proudly declared that for the first time in history a Prime Minister would not turn on the Downing Street Christmas tree lights. Guido verify hates to inform Starmer that in 2021, a Labour MP accidentally turned the lights on, and in 2002, Cherie Blair switched them on. This year, 14-year old Samuel did. The…

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OBR Chairman Richard Hughes Resigns

Dec. 1st, 2025 04:34 pm
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Posted by Max Young

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The letter: “Dear Chancellor and Dame Meg, I am writing to you following the publication of the report of the investigation into the November 2025 Economic and fiscal outlook publication error. The OBR plays a vital role in the UK’s fiscal policymaking, and it is critical that the Government, Parliament, and the public continue to…

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EXC: Eyes on Miliband as Cabinet Enters Briefing Conflict With Starmer

Dec. 1st, 2025 03:59 pm
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There is heightened suspicion in Labour circles regarding the loyalty of Ed Miliband to the Starmer government amid a series of internal briefings aimed at further destabilising Reeves and No10. One Cabinet minister told the Times last night: “Why did Keir and Rachel allow the country to believe for so long that we would break…

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LIVE: James Murray Delivers Statement on OBR Budget Leak

Dec. 1st, 2025 03:43 pm
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Posted by Eleanor Wheatley

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Treasury minister James Murray is in the Commons to deliver a statement on the unprecedented OBR leak ahead of the Budget. The OBR has just published its investigation, which essentially laid out the PDF link went live too early. OBR boss Richard Hughes will be watching nervously…

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EXC: Jonathan Powell Meets Foreign Minister Wang Yi In China Trip Not Revealed by UK Government

Dec. 1st, 2025 03:39 pm
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Keir Starmer’s National Security Adviser met China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi during a ‘secret visit’ to Beijing on Friday, Guido can reveal. The reason Guido can reveal this meeting is because the UK Government seemingly did not brief or press release it taking place despite its high-level nature… During the confidential meet-up Powell was lectured by…

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OBR: Budget Leak Was Our Worst Failure in 15-Year History

Dec. 1st, 2025 02:41 pm
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The rapid report is out. Not great for the OBR: “It is the worst failure in the 15-year history of the OBR. It was seriously disruptive to the Chancellor, who had every right to expect that the EFO would not be publicly available until she sat down at the end of her Budget speech, when…

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POLL: More Labour Voters Think Budget Is Bad Than Good

Dec. 1st, 2025 02:30 pm
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A new Opinium poll shows more 2024 Labour voters think the Winter Budget was bad (32%) rather than good (26%). This is after Reeves’ welfare spending splurge and her big show of scrapping the two-child benefit cap. So much for sacrificing the voters to deliver a ‘Labour Budget’… A chunky 41% of Labour voters think…

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Government Departments Drop in Office Attendance Since Labour Entered Power

Dec. 1st, 2025 01:33 pm
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Posted by Max Young

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Latest transparency statistics released by government departments show a whopping twelve of them are registering a lower attendance by civil servants since last year. Compared to only eight who have improved… A comparison of the average of July, August, and September’s figures from 2024 and 2025 shows that DfT, the MoD, DHSC, and DEFRA  are…

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Starmerite MP Blocking New Homes Over ‘Memories’

Dec. 1st, 2025 01:00 pm
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Posted by Eleanor Wheatley

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Despite Labour’s constant spin that it’s working hard towards getting “Britain building”, Starmer’s own MPs seem determined to obstruct any actual housing developments. The latest to join the blockers is 2024 Labour MP for Milton Keynes Emily Darlington. She’s blocking homes over ‘memories’… An old cinema called The Point in Milton Keynes has been derelict…

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WATCH: Tulip Siddiq Claims Conviction Is a “Kangaroo Court”

Dec. 1st, 2025 12:21 pm
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Tulip Siddiq has described the process which resulted in her conviction this morning as a “kangaroo court.” Speaking to Sky News, Siddiq contested that she had misused her “special influence” to coerce her aunt the deposed dictator Sheikh Hasina into giving valuable pieces of land to her mother, brother, and sister. Siddiq referred to the…

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Directors’ Confidence in Business Growth Plummets to Five-Year Low

Dec. 1st, 2025 11:41 am
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Posted by Eleanor Wheatley

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The latest survey from the Institute of Directors after the Winter Budget shows bosses’ confidence in their firms’ growth plummeted from -5 points to -20. The lowest level in more than five years… It also found: Revenue expectations fell to -8 (post-Budget), from +7 (pre-Budget). Lowest level since 2020… Investment intentions fell to -39, down…

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WATCH: Starmer Repeats Reeves’ False Black Hole Timeline

Dec. 1st, 2025 11:14 am
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Posted by Max Young

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Starmer is getting a battering from political editors at his here-comes-Keir-to-save-the-Budget press conference. Political editors who are distinctly annoyed that they were deceptively briefed by Treasury figures in the run up to the Winter Budget… Sky News pol ed Beth Rigby accused Reeves of misleading the public by pretending that the £16 billion productivity downgrade…

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LIVE: Starmer Launches Push for Welfare Reform Amid Budget Fallout

Dec. 1st, 2025 10:28 am
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Keir Starmer is in London to deliver a post-Budget speech to insist benefits are “trapping people, not just in poverty, but out of work”, and the government must go “further and faster” to encourage economic growth. He’ll be out defending his Chancellor too… ‘A Britain Built for All’… Starmer announced his “next steps” for “economic…

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LIVE: Badenoch’s ‘In-Conversation’ on Economy With Liam Halligan

Dec. 1st, 2025 10:04 am
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Badenoch is talking the economy and the Budget in the City with Liam Halligan and, Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride, and Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith. Avert your ears Rachel Reeves…

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LISTEN: Darren Jones Insists Reeves Didn’t Mislead Public Over Non-Existent ‘Black Hole’

Dec. 1st, 2025 09:40 am
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Starmer’s right-hand man Darren Jones was on the Today Programme to defend Reeves and his boss after the OBR’s damning letter revealed there was no “black hole” at all. Reeves already knew there was a £4.2 billion surplus before her “tax rises are coming” sermon… Jones dodged the question of when he learned the black…

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Rich’s Monday Morning View

Dec. 1st, 2025 09:08 am
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Tulip Siddiq Sentenced to Two Years in Prison in Bangladesh

Dec. 1st, 2025 07:31 am
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Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in prison for corruption in Bangladesh. In absentia of course… The court found evidence of  “abuse of power and influence” by Siddiq who is claimed to have illegally obtained three plots of land outside Dhaka for herself and her immediate family from her aunt the deposed dictator…

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