Science Secretary Peter Kyle landed himself in hot water after absurdly accusing Nigel Farage of being “on the side of Jimmy Savile” just because he opposes the draconian Online Safety Act. At the same time Kyle has ramped up staffing costs by the millions to enforce the legislation…
In July 2024, DSIT and its agencies employed 15,931 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff, costing taxpayers £110.9 million a year – including salaries, allowances, gold-plated pensions, and consultancy fees. By June 2025, that headcount had ballooned to 16,300 FTEs, with the total bill soaring to £129.1 million. That’s a rise of £18 million, or 16%. At the taxpayers’ expense…
This is despite DSIT supposedly being committed to achieving at least 5% savings and efficiencies by the end of this Parliament – as laid out in the Spending Review. It’s not cheap suppressing free speech…
The International Monetary Fund has increased the UK’s GDP growth projections by only 0.1% since its last Economic Outlook report in April. When it warned of global economic doom from Trump’s tariffs…
In the July GDP Projections 2025’s growth is forecast at 1.2% and in 2026 1.4%. That is after Starmer’s trade deal with Trump. A 0.1% uplift for this year and no change for last year compared to April’s report…
Compare that to January’s projections of 1.6% for this year and 1.5% for next year. The report adds it expects the Bank of England to cut “around twice more this year after pausing to assess incoming data.” Sluggish…
Damian McBride is back doing comms again. It’s been a long road…
McPoison was hired by Yvette Cooper as a policy SpAd last year strictly to “lead on fraud policy.” McBride last did spin and attack for Emily Thornberry at which point he led on Labour’s hypocritical “GPC Files” project…
As Cooper’s other four SpAds go on various holidays throughout Summer Guido hears McBride is back doing communications work for Cooper and has been picking up on it generally. This comes at the same time as the Home Office press operation becomes increasingly combative with journalists. Unflushable…
So embarrassing was yesterday’s Trump-Starmer bilateral meeting for the PM that none of his channels have mentioned it once. Trump isn’t stopping the onslaught either…
Co-conspirators can check the UK Prime Minister and Keir Starmer accounts on all platforms. Crickets…
Funnily enough there is also nothing on the government’s official Flickr photo account. Downing Street was always keen to promote Starmer’s meetings with Trump at the G7 and the Oval Office this year. Not so keen this time round? Difficult to bury a press conference on live TV…
Yesterday Guido revealed Richmond council was offering free swimming and gym lessons to asylum seekers. They’re not the only tax-hiking council to offer freebies…
Kingston council is offering a raft of discounts on sports for asylum seekers. As part of the council’s “Active Kingston” scheme to “create an inclusive environment,” if you are a care worker, on benefits, a pensioner or an asylum seeker, you get:
This scheme is funded by the council – which hiked council tax by 5% this year. Is it any wonder small boat crossings are up 50% on last year?
Nigel Farage is in Reform’s new briefing room to react to Science Secretary Peter Kyle saying he is “on the side of Jimmy Savile” because of his opposition to the Online Safety Act. Zia Yusuf has already demanded ‘dinosaur’ Kyle must apologise…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”