Peter Hitchens returns to the Guido Fawkes Show with Adam Cherry and Max Young to discuss why prisons are failing, why the UK is in terminal decline, and what he thinks of Andy Burnham. Click the video above to watch it on YouTube…
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The Energy Department has taken on staff from Labour’s favourite leftist think tank and the TUC. Civil servants not sufficiently left-wing?
As of last month (though prior to Burnham’s ascension) DESNZ said in response to a parliamentary question from Tory MP Charlie Dewhirst:
“An individual from the IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research) has been seconded to work in Energy Infrastructure Group on industrial strategy.
An individual from the TUC (Trades Union Congress) has been seconded to work in Energy Infrastructure Group on workforce policy.”
The current Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh used to work at IPPR in 2016 and 2017. The think tank boasted last week about how many of its former personnel are inside government now. How much deeper does it go?
Labour MP Bayo Alaba has been suspended from the party over questions about whether he tried to avoid repaying a taxpayer-funded bounce-back loan during the pandemic. To the tune of £50,000…
Alaba is a co-owner of Alaba Properties Ltd. Companies House records show an attempt was made to dissolve the company in March 2022. Which is only legally permitted if it has no outstanding debts…
A Labour spokesman said:
“Bayo Alaba MP has referred himself to the Labour Party so that these matters can be investigated in line with the party’s rules. The Labour Party expects the highest standards from our elected representatives and we have robust processes in place to ensure those high standards are upheld.”
Alaba himself said this afternoon:
“Like many businesses and entrepreneurs, I accessed financial support during the COVID-19 pandemic… There has been no attempt to avoid my financial obligations, and I am wholeheartedly committed to ensuring that the liability is met in full. I’ve referred myself to the Labour Party’s investigations process on the matter and I’ll cooperate fully.”
Sometimes these investigations wrap up quickly. Other times they last years and years…
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Convicted fraudster Louise Haigh has lost responsibility for another fraud component of the Cabinet Office. Presumably come October she’ll be too busy firing out emergency alerts about how it’s a bit nippy out…
As part of the machinery of government changes on Burnham’s ascension to No10 the Cabinet Office – run by Haigh who is the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster – lost control of the Public Sector Fraud Authority. It’s not just one fraud-related operation that got moved:
“Following a machinery of government change on 21 July 2026, the Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA), including the National Fraud Initiative (NFI), transferred from the Cabinet Office to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). DWP is now the Data Controller for all NFI data matching exercises.”
The National Fraud Initiative identifies fraud through data matching – it examines data shared between private and public sectors. It was moved to the Cabinet Office in 2015 after being launched in the 90s and eventually shoved under the PSFA. A complete clear-out of all fraud-related operations from under Haigh…
UPDATE: A Tory source said: “While it’s reassuring that a convicted fraudster has lost yet another responsibility for tackling fraud, the Labour Government is still failing to tackle waste and fraud in the welfare system.”
Number 10 is doubling down on the decision to activate its emergency alert system across millions of Brits’ phones on Friday evening. The PM’s spokesman insisted today that the threat of wildfires was an “emergency situation“, and “it was an entirely appropriate use of the system”. Those confused by their phone’s screams on a quiet Friday evening, as if nuclear armageddon was just minutes away, might disagree.
First Secretary of State Louise Haigh is said to have made the decision, with No10 today only claiming the call was made “at Cobra” on the insistence of fire chiefs. When it was pointed out that the chairman of the board of trustees of the National Fire Chiefs Council said it was a bad idea, the spokesman said they “hadn’t seen those comments”. The spokesman also said the alert has been triggered several times before in recent years. No one in the building appears to have read the The Boy Who Cried Wolf…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”