A Green candidate in the local elections has failed to delete numerous videos on his social media despite the party promising they would be removed. The party has also kept him on as a candidate despite being alerted to his posts by the press days before close of nominations last Thursday…
Mark Adderley, a Green candidate in Crystal Palace & Upper Norwood in the Croydon elections, regularly posts about Israel to his 118,000 followers on Instagram. Often alongside his wife the Loose Women panellist Nadia Sawalha…
The Jewish Chronicle first contacted the Green Party about a selection of the videos – including one which appeared to blame Netanyahu for the Hatzola ambulance attack – on 7 April. The party said “there are some examples here that don’t represent the views of the Green Party and we have had conversations with those involved and the relevant posts are being deleted.” Guido can confirm at least one video has been deleted – implying these still-live ones represent the views of the Green Party:
The Greens told the Times on 13 April – this week – that after “conversations with those involved… relevant posts are being deleted.” The above are a small selection and all remain up and Mark Adderley remains the Green candidate in the upcoming election…
The first rulings under Labour’s junk food ad ban are in. A Lidl Instagram post featuring croissants and cheese pretzels has been banned. An ad for German Doner Kebab featuring an “Inferno OG chicken kebab” and a “chicken doner burrito” has been cleared. So according to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), croissants are junk food, and ‘inferno‘ kebabs are not…
The ban works on two tests. If a product is classified as high in fat, salt or sugar under the government’s nutrient profiling model and falls within one of just 13 specified food categories, it’s getting taken down. Pastries and bakery items make the list, but kebabs and burritos don’t. An Iceland ad showing sweets was also banned, while a travel ad featuring a child grabbing a chocolate doughnut at an airport buffet was cleared… because it wasn’t technically advertising the doughnut itself. Make sense? No? Don’t think about it too much, no one in government has…
The ban blocks ads for unhealthy food on TV between 5.30am and 9pm and in paid online media at any time. All this is supposedly to ‘protect the children’. Who never watch terrestrial television anyway, and can find YouTube videos of blokes trying to eat the entire McDonald’s menu in one go with just a few clicks…
The King’s Speech – opening the new parliamentary session – is on 13 May, just days after the Local Elections on the 7th of the month. Guido hears the government is considering an early prorogation of parliament – potentially as early as Tuesday…
Briefings fired at the time the State Opening of Parliament was confirmed for 13 May speculated that the week commencing 27 April would see parliament prorogued. That would leave a standard length gap of 16 days…
To prorogue a week earlier would leave a longer gap of 22-23 days. All to miss one PMQs…
There are numerous reasons Labour would want to the need to deal with Parliament as the local elections approached. Escaping parliamentary proximity to local elections by shuttering earlier than required would be gross hypocrisy from a party which screamed permanently at the top of its lungs about previous governments’ attempts to restart Commons sessions the same way. In case anyone still thought Labour had principles…
The Treasury’s latest survey of independent forecasters shows every major economic indicator has worsened in a single month. Look at the data below. The sub-badges flag the worst-case forecast for those who really want to suffer…
| GDP Growth 2026 forecast |
1.0% ▸ 0.7% ▼ LOW: 0.3% · OBR: 1.1% |
| CPI Inflation 2026 forecast |
2.5% ▸ 3.2% ▲ HIGH: 4.6% · BoE TARGET: 2.0% |
| RPI Inflation 2026 forecast |
3.2% ▸ 4.3% |
| Unemployment Q4 2026 forecast |
5.3% ▸ 5.4% ▲ HIGH: 5.6% |
| Borrowing (PSNB) 2025–26 forecast |
£117.7bn ▸ £127.1bn ▲ HIGH: £163bn |
Reeves is already blaming Iran for all of this. The independent consensus, compiled by the Treasury’s own ‘Macroeconomic Co-ordination & Strategy Team’, is now far more pessimistic than the OBR numbers underpinning her fiscal rules. Scary enough to make the steeliest of Chancellors weep…
Trump just now on Truth Social:
“China is very happy that I am permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz. I am doing it for them, also – And the World. This situation will never happen again. They have agreed not to send weapons to Iran. President Xi will give me a big, fat, hug when I get there in a few weeks. We are working together smartly, and very well! Doesn’t that beat fighting??? BUT REMEMBER, we are very good at fighting, if we have to – far better than anyone else!!! President DJT”
He has also shared Jerome Starkey’s piece in the Sun, which features the headline “If hot air was a weapon Starmer would have rearmed Britain”…
Lucy Powell on LBC, asked by Tom Swarbrick for her reaction to Labour MP Samantha Niblett’s call for a ‘summer of sex’ debate in Parliament: “I personally don’t own any sex toys, but each to their own… I’m not really sure that’s the right place for it, no.”