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Great British PACGreat British PAC says no to Labour’s legal drift on single-sex spaces
Great British PAC says no to Labour’s quiet tolerance of six Left-wing London councils, Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Waltham Forest, that have declared they will keep services “inclusive” in defiance of new EHRC statutory guidance on single-sex spaces. With the Supreme Court already clear that “sex” means biological sex, who is Labour really protecting?
Vicky Richter · 12 August 2026Great British PAC to Build the Case, JK Rowling to Fund It: NHS Trusts on Notice Over Single-Sex Wards
An internal email has revealed an NHS trust will make "no immediate changes" to its policy of placing men who identify as women on female wards — despite new EHRC statutory guidance. JK Rowling responded within hours, pledging to fund legal challenges through her Women's Fund. Now the Great British PAC is offering to help affected patients and staff build cases ready for funding.
Vicky Richter · 10 August 2026Recalled Offenders Threaten to Swamp Labour's Early Release Scheme as Prison System Nears Breaking Point
Prison recalls in England and Wales have hit a record 51,419, overtaking releases for the first time and threatening to consume the capacity created by Sir Andy Burnham's early release scheme, the probation watchdog has warned. With the estate at 87,342 inmates against a 89,800 ceiling, ministers face collapse by November unless the recall pipeline is fixed.
Vicky Richter · 10 August 2026Burnham Must Confront the Homelessness Emergency, and the Country Is Watching How
The chief executive of St Mungo's has told Andy Burnham he must urgently respond to Britain's rough sleeping emergency, as a sprawling encampment on Euston Road, in Sir Keir Starmer's own constituency, exposes the gap between the Prime Minister's £340 million pledge and the reality on the streets. With rough sleeping at a record high and one in four rough sleepers now a foreign national, how Burnham handles this crisis will reveal what he truly believes government is for.
Vicky Richter · 10 August 2026The Umbrella for Sale: Is Andy Burnham Britain's Prime Minister, or Brussels' Next Estate Agent?
It always begins innocently: a market opening here, a mobility scheme there. Now a plan circulating among Andy Burnham's most senior officials would extend Britain's nuclear umbrella across Europe in exchange for single market access. The question is no longer whether Britain drifts back toward Brussels, but how fast.
Vicky Richter · 10 August 2026New Manchester Mayor Refuses to Commit to Implementing Trans Guidance
Bev Craig, the new Mayor of Greater Manchester, twice refused on live radio to commit to implementing EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces, despite a Supreme Court ruling that "woman" in the Equality Act means biological sex. Nine of the region's ten councils have taken no action in fifteen months.
Vicky Richter · 10 August 2026Inside the Channel Crossing Industry: How Leaflets, NGOs and State-Funded Aid Are Reshaping Britain's Border Debate
On a stretch of scrubland outside Dunkirk, a glossy leaflet in sixteen languages is teaching migrants how to time a small-boat crossing of the English Channel and how to claim asylum in Britain. Retrieved this week by Reform UK's Lee Anderson, the pamphlet has thrown a spotlight on the humanitarian architecture, and the £662 million of British money, that surrounds Europe's most contested border.
Vicky Richter · 7 August 2026Starmer misled MPs over defence spending, UK statistics watchdog confirms
The UK's statistics watchdog has ruled that Sir Keir Starmer misled Parliament when he claimed the Government would spend "£270bn more on defence than we would otherwise have done". The figure was, in fact, the military's entire planned budget, not an increase. The real uplift is less than 10 per cent of what he told MPs, and the parliamentary record remains uncorrected.
Vicky Richter · 7 August 2026Tories Pledge to End Council Housing for Foreign Nationals as Badenoch Seeks to Halt Britain's Role as 'Cash Machine for the World'
More than 230,000 non-EU foreign households across Britain face eviction from council and housing association properties under sweeping Conservative proposals unveiled by Kemi Badenoch. The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Helen Whately, framed the plan as a decisive break with a welfare settlement that has turned the United Kingdom, in Mrs Badenoch's words, into a "cash machine for the world".
Vicky Richter · 7 August 2026Britain's Welfare Paradox: Why Work No Longer Pays for a Generation Raised on Benefits
A teenager claiming "anxiety" benefits can now receive £100 a week more than a peer working part‑time on the minimum wage. With 1.4 million Britons drawing mental‑health payments and welfare outpaying work for 625,000 households, has the state deliberately engineered a client class of permanent dependents?
Vicky Richter · 6 August 2026The Loophole Burnham Cannot Explain: Why Convicted Child Abusers Are Walking Free Under Labour
There is a particular kind of political failure that cannot be laundered through spin. Andy Burnham told the country that no child sex abuser would benefit from Labour's early release scheme. A quiet clash between two statutes has now proved him wrong, and with it, unravelled the moral foundation of his premiership.
Vicky Richter · 6 August 2026A Wolf, a Tortoise and a Treasury: The Fabian Blueprint Nobody Voted For, and Everyone Is Living Under
More than a decade after publication, the Fabian Society's "2030 Vision" has quietly become one of the most influential fiscal texts in modern British policy. Read against the Society's own history, its tortoise motto, its abandoned wolf-in-sheep's-clothing crest, and its doctrine of "the inevitability of gradualism", the 222-page blueprint reads less as neutral forecasting than as a philosophical warning.
Vicky Richter · 6 August 2026The Greening That Ate Catastrophism: Twenty Years After An Inconvenient Truth
Twenty years after Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth turned climate science into a state religion, the evidence tells an awkward story: satellites show a planet two Americas greener, while $2.2 trillion a year flows into an energy transition that cannot power itself. From backwards-running grid meters in Britain to child-mined cobalt in Congo, this is an investigation into who the trillion-dollar climate project is really for. Spoiler: it is not the planet.
Vicky Richter · 6 August 2026Britain’s Churches Are Falling Down, and the Church of England Is Spending £100 Million Looking Back
The Church of England’s £100 million reparative programme has been sold to the public as an act of moral courage. In practice, it looks more like a failure of proportion. Britain’s historic churches are visibly deteriorating, congregations are stretched thin, and state support has been capped and closed. Yet the central Church has chosen retrospective moral expenditure over the working parish system that keeps its national mission alive.
Vicky Richter · 5 August 2026The Church of England’s Reparations Agenda Is Built on Guilt, and Guilt Is a Bad Way to Govern
The Church of England has decided that inherited guilt should shape its present behaviour. It has translated that judgement into a £100 million reparative programme framed by the language of shame, healing, and repair. This article argues that such a framework is unfit for a national Church. It distorts proportion, rewards moral theatre, and weakens the institution’s capacity to serve the communities that still depend on it.
Vicky Richter · 5 August 2026Apple Escalates Legal Fight Against UK Home Office Over Encrypted iPhone Access, Reigniting Global Privacy Debate
Apple has opened a new front in its long-running confrontation with the British Government, filing a fresh legal complaint at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over Home Office demands for access to encrypted iCloud back-ups belonging to UK customers. The move deepens a transatlantic dispute that has drawn in the White House and raised sharp questions about the future of digital privacy.
Vicky Richter · 5 August 2026How Britain's Broken Migration System Triggered an Explosion in Rough Sleeping
Non-UK rough sleepers in England have risen 92 per cent since 2021, while non-EU nationals sleeping on the streets have surged 396 per cent. With £4.7 billion a year spent on asylum accommodation and 1.33 million households on social housing waiting lists, Prime Minister Andy Burnham's £340 million pledge faces uncomfortable arithmetic.
Vicky Richter · 4 August 2026Burnham Grants Early Release to PC Harper's Killers as Critics Question Consistency of Sentencing Reform
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has approved a reformed early-release scheme that will free PC Andrew Harper's killers, Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole, before the end of 2026, while excluding rapists and child sexual offenders from the same accelerated timetable. His widow, Lissie Harper, has condemned the decision as an "utter betrayal."
Vicky Richter · 4 August 2026Operation Oak: Nine Men Face 41 Historical Child Rape Charges in South Wales, Yet All Walk Free on Bail
Nine British men, aged between 54 and 76, appeared at Newport Magistrates' Court on Friday to face a combined 41 historical sexual offence charges, many of them alleging the rape of children, in a case Gwent Police describe as one of the most significant group-based child sexual exploitation investigations ever mounted in south Wales. Despite the gravity of the allegations, which span an eleven-year period between 1985 and 1996 and involve eight female complainants who were children at the time, every single defendant walked free on bail, a decision now reigniting a fierce national debate over whether the judiciary is treating grooming gang suspects with appropriate severity.
Vicky Richter · 4 August 2026Veterans Face Stealth Raid on Military Pensions
Former servicemen who bled for their country are being pursued for tens of thousands of pounds by Whitehall officials, in a punitive reclassification of Armed Forces pensions that campaigners say betrays the very men and women Britain once promised never to disadvantage. A judicial review looms against Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden, as veterans warn of a "stealth clawback" that drives a coach and horses through the Armed Forces Covenant, at the same moment the state spends billions housing illegal migrants in hotels.
Vicky Richter · 3 August 2026Why Is Labour Fighting So Hard to Keep Ministers' Criminal Histories Secret?
A first‑tier information tribunal has ruled that the criminal convictions declared by Cabinet ministers during vetting must remain concealed from voters, citing data protection law. The decision, handed down against The Times, has ignited a constitutional row over transparency, ministerial integrity and the public's right to scrutinise those wielding executive power.
Vicky Richter · 3 August 2026Advance UK joins the PAC — and the Chagos fight is back on
Advance UK's move into the Great British PAC is complete — and the Court of Appeal has ordered a fresh Chagos hearing. We're raising the £10,000 needed to get the Chagossians back into court.
Claire Bullivant · 3 August 2026Rayner Urges Burnham to Exempt Foreign Carers From Visa Crackdown
Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has publicly pressed Prime Minister Andy Burnham to shield foreign care workers from Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's plan to triple the qualifying period for indefinite leave to remain, reopening a fierce debate over vetting, English-language standards and Britain's structural dependence on imported care labour.
Vicky Richter · 31 July 2026Labour Plots £18bn Council Tax Raid on Working Britain
Labour is planning an £18 billion tax raid on more than 25 million households across England, with Treasury figures showing the national council tax take will soar by 43 per cent to £58.8 billion by 2030/31. The rise, branded the "Burnham premium" by the Conservatives, will add £556 to the average Band D bill, nearly double the current rate of inflation, despite the Prime Minister's pledge to make the cost of living his number one priority.
Vicky Richter · 31 July 2026Great British PAC Roll Up Their Sleeves for First 'Make Britain Beautiful' Clean-Up
Around 15 volunteers joined Great British PAC's first Make Britain Beautiful community clean-up in Redditch, collecting 22 bags of litter, clearing overgrown weeds and revitalising neglected public spaces. The initiative aims to inspire communities across Britain to take pride in their local areas through practical volunteer action and regular clean-up events.
Vicky Richter · 31 July 2026The Open-Border Industrial Complex
There is a particular kind of silence in British public life. It is the silence that falls whenever the conversation turns to who, in practice, actually runs the country's migration policy. Ministers speak. Home Secretaries make speeches. And yet the boats keep arriving, the hotels keep filling, and the backlog keeps growing. This is the story of the machine behind the silence, a £4.9 billion ecosystem of charities, philanthropic foundations, sanctuary schemes and government grants that has quietly rewritten Britain's border settlement, and the one question Westminster refuses to answer, who is it actually for?
Vicky Richter · 31 July 2026Victims at Risk From Early Release of Prisoners, Warns Watchdog
A growing backlash is building over plans to release prisoners early to ease overcrowding, including serious sexual and violent offenders. With victims’ groups warning of inadequate safeguards, overstretched probation services and deep trauma for survivors, the central question is becoming impossible to avoid: when rapists and grooming perpetrators are released early, who is the state really protecting, the criminal or the victim?
Vicky Richter · 30 July 2026Puberty, Politics and the PATHWAYS Trial: The Making of a British Experiment
Britain’s medicines regulator called them an unacceptable safety risk. Its Health Secretary called their historic use a scandal. Now, on 1 August 2026, the state is preparing to give puberty blockers to children as young as 11 inside a clinical trial, with shopping vouchers as an incentive. This is how it happened, who allowed it, and what the evidence actually says.
Vicky Richter · 30 July 2026Britain's Millionaire Exodus: Why the Shrinking Wealth Base Should Concern Every Taxpayer
Britain is losing its wealth creators at the fastest pace in nearly two decades. With the number of sterling millionaires falling to 442,000 and the top 1% of taxpayers contributing almost a third of all income tax receipts, the debate is no longer just about the wealthy, it's about the long-term sustainability of the UK's economy, investment climate and tax base.
Vicky Richter · 29 July 2026Why Burnham's Ten-Year Plan Is a Distraction from Britain's Real Crisis
Andy Burnham's vision for a decade of national renewal promises sweeping reforms, from regional devolution to council house building and economic regeneration. Yet with Britain facing mounting security threats, immigration challenges and growing concerns over public safety, critics question whether a long-term strategy can replace the urgent action many believe the country needs today.
Vicky Richter · 28 July 2026The Cruel Mathematics of Betrayal: Why Britain's Veterans Should Never Bear the Burden of Government Incompetence
More than 1,000 retired British service personnel are facing demands to repay tens of thousands of pounds after Ministry of Defence pension calculation errors left millions in overpayments. As elderly veterans see their retirement incomes slashed through no fault of their own, growing criticism is being directed at a system that appears to hold former soldiers accountable instead of the officials responsible for the mistakes.
Vicky Richter · 28 July 2026Home Office Turns Blind Eye as Iranian-Aligned Charity Sponsors Visas
A London-based charity under investigation over alleged links to the Iranian regime has retained its Home Office licence to sponsor UK visas, raising serious questions about Britain's immigration security. An investigation reveals how organisations facing regulatory scrutiny have been granted access to the UK's visa system, prompting growing calls for an urgent review of Home Office oversight and national security safeguards.
Vicky Richter · 28 July 2026Chagossians Make Their Case as Court of Appeal Hearing Enters Second Day
As the Court of Appeal hearing reaches day two, lawyers for the Chagossian people put their case, with the fight increasingly turning on the Right of Abode and prerogative power.
Great British PAC · 16 July 2026Great British PAC put Burnham under pressure as overwhelming majority (72%) — across every main party — support a vote for Chagossians
A new YouGov poll commissioned by Great British PAC finds 72% of Britons — across every main party, age group and background — believe the Chagossian people should have a vote on the future of the Chagos Islands, with just 6% opposed.
Great British PAC · 16 July 2026Redditch to host first Make Britain Beautiful Community Action Day
Redditch will host the first-ever Make Britain Beautiful Community Action Day on Saturday 25 July, as residents unite for a morning of litter picking, weeding and civic pride.
Great British PAC · 9 July 2026Human Rights Watch to Intervene in Chagos Appeal, Piling Pressure on Labour
The Court of Appeal has cleared Human Rights Watch to enter Labour's bid to remove Chagossians from their homeland, sharpening scrutiny before the July hearing.
Great British PAC · 7 July 2026Human Rights Watch Joins Chagos Court Fight as First Minister Welcomes Backing
Human Rights Watch has applied to intervene in this month's Court of Appeal battle over the Chagos Islands — a move the community's First Minister has warmly welcomed.
Great British PAC · 5 July 2026Keep Justice Blind: Great British PAC Challenges CPS "Unconscious Bias" Plan
The Great British PAC has written to the Director of Public Prosecutions and opened a co-sign campaign against plans that could weigh prosecutors' "unconscious bias" in charging decisions.
Great British PAC · 4 July 2026Ministers Move to Evict Chagossians as an Earlier Chagos Visit Faces Scrutiny
Six Chagossians who returned home now face a Government appeal to remove them, even as lawyers demand answers over an earlier, filmed expedition by campaigners backing Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 3 July 2026Chagossian leader writes from the islands to challenge Labour hopefuls on Chagos
Misley Mandarin has written from Ile du Coin to Andy Burnham and Al Carns, pressing both leadership contenders to say whether they would press ahead with handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 26 June 2026Why our cross-party success rattles the left
The left keeps trying to force the Great British PAC into a tidy political box. The trouble is we refuse to fit the caricature — and our Chagos coalition proves it.
Claire Bullivant · 23 June 2026Self-Determination for All But the Chagossians: The Guardian's Lopsided Chagos Story
The Guardian gave a sympathetic platform to one Chagossian delegation backing the Mauritius handover, while the majority who wish to remain British were left out entirely. That silence tells its own story.
Claire Bullivant · 12 June 2026Advance UK Members Vote 87% to Merge With the Great British PAC
Advance UK members have backed joining the Great British PAC by a landslide, with 6,442 voting yes and 921 no, clearing the way for a bigger patriotic movement.
Great British PAC · 8 June 2026Chagos Isn't For Sale, America
Washington is reportedly weighing whether it could simply buy the Chagos Islands. But a homeland is not a property transaction, and no cheque can extinguish a people's right to decide their own future.
Claire Bullivant · 8 June 2026Don't Let Whitehall Paperwork Wipe Out the Dartmoor Pony
A native breed that outlasted invasions, wars and the Industrial Revolution now faces a threat from grazing rules drawn up in Whitehall. We are watching Dartmoor closely.
Great British PAC · 7 June 2026Chagos Saved, For Now: Starmer Forced Into Retreat as Pressure Mounts
Plans to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius have been put on ice. With the enabling legislation missing from the King's Speech, the surrender deal is now in serious trouble.
Great British PAC · 10 April 2026Historic Win for Chagossians as Court Restores Their Right of Abode
A landmark Chagos judgment has struck down the unlawful removal of the Chagossians' right of abode, a cause the Great British PAC has helped fund all the way to court.
Great British PAC · 31 March 2026The Chagos Judgment That Changes Everything: Law, Fiction and a People's Return
A ruling in the Supreme Court of the British Indian Ocean Territory has torn down the legal wall that kept the Chagossians from their homeland for over twenty years. We explain why it matters.
Claire Bullivant · 31 March 2026Chagossians Back in Court Fighting to Stay on Their Ancestral Islands
A handful of Chagossian islanders who sailed home face British authorities in a rare BIOT Supreme Court sitting in London, fighting removal orders that would force them off their ancestral land.
Great British PAC · 13 March 2026High Court Blocks Chagossian Judicial Review as Timing Raises Questions
The High Court has refused permission for the first Chagossian Judicial Review over consultation rights. The Great British PAC is asking hard questions about why the ruling took four months and landed days before the next hearing.
Great British PAC · 10 March 2026Court Blocks Deportation of Chagossians Who Returned to Their Homeland
A judge handling the case mid-flight over Africa stopped four native Chagossians being thrown off their islands — a peaceful homecoming our campaign was proud to fund.
Great British PAC · 20 February 2026Defence Veterans Side With Trump and Condemn Starmer's Chagos Plan
A bloc of more than 80 American and British defence and political figures has lined up behind President Trump, denouncing the proposed Chagos handover to Mauritius as a perilous error.
Great British PAC · 19 February 2026Chagossian Claimants Demand Urgent Re-Hearing After Four-Month Court Silence
Nearly four months after an urgent High Court hearing produced no ruling, Chagossian representatives have filed an emergency application to have their stalled judicial review put before a fresh judge.
Great British PAC · 13 February 2026Transatlantic Heavyweights Rally Behind Trump as Chagos Plan Ignites a Firestorm
Over 80 American and British defence veterans, lawmakers and scholars have lined up behind Donald Trump to brand Labour's Chagos handover a reckless strategic gamble.
Great British PAC · 30 January 2026Trump Brands Starmer's Chagos Surrender "Stupid" as Pressure on Labour Mounts
Donald Trump has torn into Labour's plan to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, calling it an act of stupidity and leaving Sir Keir Starmer facing a fresh revolt at home.
Great British PAC · 21 January 2026Chagos Must Stay British: How Starmer's Security Case Fell Apart
Sixteen reasons the surrender of the Chagos Islands no longer holds up, from a collapsed security argument to a possible £35bn bill and a live legal challenge.
Claire Bullivant · 17 January 2026Lords in Uproar as Labour Loses Chagos Vote — Then Speaker and Whip Halt a Decisive Division
Labour scraped the Chagos surrender Bill through Third Reading only after losing a regret motion and re-running a contested voice vote four times — a sequence our campaign calls a breakdown in due process.
Great British PAC · 13 January 2026Chagossian Leader Calls on Britons to Halt Labour Handover of British Territory
On the eve of a decisive Lords vote, the Chagossian Government in Exile is pleading with the British public to stop Labour signing away the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 11 January 2026Peers Defeat Starmer Over Chagos as Lords Demand Treaty Rethink
The House of Lords has derailed the Government's Chagos timetable, voting to force a renegotiation of the Mauritius treaty and exposing deep unease over a deal critics call reckless.
Great British PAC · 6 January 2026Chagos: We Funded a Judicial Review. What Use Is It If the Verdict Comes Too Late?
Our CEO Claire Bullivant on a fully argued Judicial Review left undecided while Labour rushes an irreversible Chagos deal through Parliament over the festive break.
Claire Bullivant · 31 December 2025Letter to America: Defending Chagossian Self-Determination and US Security
Chagossian interim First Minister Misley Mandarin makes a direct appeal to America: stand with an exiled people seeking self-determination and protect the future of Diego Garcia.
Misley Mandarin · 27 December 2025Labour's Own Survey Condemns Its Chagos Surrender
The Government commissioned its own consultation of Chagossians. The verdict it delivered is damning: the deal to hand the islands to Mauritius has no consent from the people it affects.
Great British PAC · 17 December 2025Chagossians Declare a Government in Exile to Halt the Chagos Surrender
A people exiled for over fifty years have voted to form their own Government in Exile, electing an interim First Minister in a last bid to stop Britain handing their islands to Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 16 December 2025Still Waiting for Justice on Chagos: Why That Pending Judgment Matters
The High Court still hasn't ruled on whether our Chagos Judicial Review can go ahead. A fresh UN intervention has raised the stakes — here is what hangs on this case.
Claire Bullivant · 9 December 2025UN tells Britain: halt the Chagos handover until the islanders are heard
A UN race-discrimination body has urged London and Port Louis to freeze ratification of their Chagos deal, warning it tramples Chagossian rights and international law.
Great British PAC · 8 December 2025Starmer's Chagos Betrayal: Labour Tears Up Its Own Manifesto Pledge
Labour swore in 2024 to defend the sovereignty of Britain's Overseas Territories. Now it is handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, and critics say the Prime Minister lied to the country.
Great British PAC · 3 December 2025Chagos Consultation in Crisis as Peers, MPs and Advocates Cry Foul
Parliamentarians, Chagossian groups and policy experts say the House of Lords survey on the Chagos deal is compromised, insecure and open to foreign interference.
Great British PAC · 2 December 2025Labour Caves on Day-One Unfair Dismissal Rights After Lords Defeats
After repeated Lords defeats and a fierce business backlash, ministers have scrapped plans for day-one unfair dismissal rights, replacing them with a six-month qualifying period.
Great British PAC · 29 November 2025The Record Refutes the Minister: Chagossians Were a Permanent, Self-Organising People
Baroness Chapman told peers the Chagos Islands had no permanent population and were never self-governing. A century of church registers, court rulings and UN findings says otherwise.
Claire Bullivant · 22 November 2025Tories Carry the Fight for Chagossians as Labour Vanishes from Lords Debate
More than two dozen Chagossians filled the public gallery to watch the Lords debate the future of their homeland. Conservative peers led the scrutiny while Labour barely showed up.
Great British PAC · 19 November 2025Survey: Chagossians Overwhelmingly Want Their Islands to Stay British
The largest consultation of Chagossian opinion ever undertaken hands a resounding verdict: keep the islands British. More than 99 per cent reject any handover to Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 18 November 2025Mauritian Turmoil Over Chagos Deal Stokes Diego Garcia Fears in London and Washington
As Port Louis quarrels over its Chagos pact with Britain, the squabbling itself has rattled Western officials worried about who will really control access to Diego Garcia.
Great British PAC · 14 November 2025The Chagos Islands, Britain and the Tuvalu Precedent
Dr Dan Boucher argues that international law puts self-determination above frozen colonial borders. The Mauritius Treaty sidelines Chagossian rights, when a British precedent shows a better way.
Dr Dan Boucher · 11 November 2025Chagos Bill Stalls in the Lords After Labour Pulls Its Committal Motion
Ministers have abruptly shelved the committal motion on the Chagos Bill, freezing a Lords vote after an all-night lobbying push by Chagossian campaigners and the Great British PAC.
Claire Bullivant · 4 November 2025Chagossian veteran begs the Lords to “stop this injustice” before Tuesday’s debate
A Chagossian who wore British uniform has written to every peer, pleading with the House of Lords to throw out the Government’s plan to hand the islands to Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 3 November 2025The Chagos Mistake: Alarm Grows That Starmer's Deal Opens the Indian Ocean to China
Surrendering the Chagos Archipelago has rattled defence chiefs and parliamentarians on both sides of the Atlantic, who fear Diego Garcia's security is being quietly traded away.
Claire Bullivant · 31 October 2025High Court Hears Labour's Chagos Surrender Was Built on "Unlawful Decisions"
Three British Chagossians have taken Labour's giveaway of the Chagos Islands to the High Court, where judges heard the Government acted unlawfully by shutting them out of decisions about their own homeland.
Great British PAC · 28 October 2025Backed by GBPAC, Chagossians Take Their Case to the High Court on Tuesday
Two linked claims from British Chagossians land before London's High Court this Tuesday. The Great British PAC and its donors helped carry the fight that far.
Great British PAC · 27 October 2025People Power: Why Every Action You Take Truly Counts
One of our Email Warriors asked whether any of it matters. Here is the honest answer, with the receipts: from a paused consultation to a won apology to a funded judicial review.
Caroline Smith · 1 October 2025Outrage as Officer Snatches Union Flag From 16-Year-Old at Newcastle Rally
A liaison officer was filmed wrenching the Union Flag from a teenage girl's hands in Newcastle. Our complaint, now seen by more than 1.2 million people, demands answers.
Great British PAC · 20 September 2025Seven Months In: GBPAC's Legal and Grassroots Campaigns Build Momentum
Just seven months after launching, the Great British PAC reports a run of victories and bold new campaigns, telling supporters it is reshaping the landscape of British politics.
Great British PAC · 19 September 2025Mandelson Is Gone — Now Washington Must Reopen the Chagos Deal
Lord Mandelson's removal from Washington has knocked the props out from under Starmer's Chagos surrender. The assurances he claimed to have secured have vanished with him.
Great British PAC · 12 September 2025Wheelchair Basketball Team Apologises After GBPAC Pressure Over Anthem Protest
After our campaign and a wave of public anger, British Wheelchair Basketball has quietly apologised to Israel's team for an anthem protest at the Nations Cup in Cologne.
Great British PAC · 9 September 2025Our “On Notice” Warning Is Already Stalling Turbines and Solar Farms
Our blunt warning to the green energy industry is already biting — and now we are calling on Reform UK and the Conservatives to put it in writing and finish the job.
Great British PAC · 12 August 2025White Britons “Banned” From MI6 Internship: The PAC Demands Answers
Our Young People’s Director Sophie Corcoran has written to the Prime Minister and the spy chiefs, branding an intelligence internship that bars white working-class students “state-sanctioned racial discrimination”.
Great British PAC · 6 August 2025Good Behaviour Insurance: A Market-Led Answer to Britain's Migration Mess
The Great British PAC proposes making every visa applicant buy private Good Behaviour Insurance — letting underwriters, not Whitehall, price the risk of overstaying, fraud and crime.
Andrew Hunt · 4 August 2025More Than 40 British Leaders Ask Trump to Halt the Chagos Surrender
A cross-party group of over 40 senior British figures has written to President Trump, warning that handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius would imperil the Diego Garcia base and Western security.
Great British PAC · 4 August 2025Mayor Bristow Backs Our Fight After Police Drop Balfour Portrait Case
We have written to every Cambridgeshire MP and county councillor demanding a review of the shelved Balfour portrait investigation — and the region's mayor has now joined our call.
Great British PAC · 29 July 2025GBPAC Takes Cambridge Portrait Case to Police Commissioner
Our university leaders have written directly to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough PCC, demanding answers after police dropped the case over a vandalised Lord Balfour portrait at Trinity College.
Great British PAC · 26 July 2025GBPAC Presses Trinity College Over Dropped Balfour Portrait Vandalism Case
We have written to Trinity College, Cambridge, demanding answers after police abandoned the investigation into the defacing of a historic portrait of Lord Balfour publicly claimed by Palestine Action.
Great British PAC · 18 July 2025Cross-Party Coalition Tells British Museum: Hands Off the Elgin Marbles
More than 30 politicians, peers, lawyers and academics have backed a Great British PAC letter demanding the British Museum abandon any secret plan to hand the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece.
Great British PAC · 11 July 2025Pressure Mounts to Pause Chagos Deal as Court Case and MP Doubts Grow
With our Judicial Review now before the High Court, the lead Chagossian claimant has asked MPs to hear his community directly and freeze any sovereignty transfer to Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 1 July 2025High Court Fast-Tracks Chagossian Case Against the Government
The Judicial Review demanding Chagossians be consulted before their homeland is signed away has passed its first major test, with the High Court ordering an urgent timetable.
Great British PAC · 30 June 2025Labour MPs Break Ranks Over Chagos Deal, Warning of Betrayal and Environmental Risk
Senior Labour figures including Emily Thornberry are now publicly questioning the Chagos treaty, raising alarm over Chagossian rights, environmental safeguards and a glaring lack of democratic scrutiny.
Great British PAC · 30 June 2025Chagossians Take the Government to the High Court Over Sovereignty Deal
Two British Chagossians have launched a Judicial Review, backed by the Great British PAC, to stop ministers handing the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius without lawfully consulting their people first.
Great British PAC · 25 June 2025£30bn to Give Chagos Away: Labour Dodges Scrutiny on the Bill
Steve Doughty boasted about transparency, then could not say how the £30.3 billion Chagos handover splits between Whitehall departments. Watch this space.
Great British PAC · 24 June 2025The Original Blueprint: While Others Copy, GBPAC Is Already Building for the Whole Patriotic Right
A new outfit, the Centre for a Better Britain, sounds a great deal like us. Here is why the Great British PAC was there first — cross-party, grassroots and already in motion.
Claire Bullivant · 22 June 2025Ben Habib and the Great British PAC Refuse to Bow to Hope Not Hate
When Hope not Hate tried to intimidate our directors over old social-media likes, Chairman Ben Habib answered with defiance — and the response went viral.
Great British PAC · 19 June 2025Seven Patriotic Groups Unite to Stand for Our Sovereignty
We have joined Conservative Post and five other patriotic organisations behind a new Facts4EU.Org campaign to halt the quiet surrender of Britain's independence before it is lost for good.
Great British PAC · 13 June 2025The Chagossian Veteran Taking On Keir Starmer Over His Stolen Homeland
A British Army veteran and Chagossian, Misley Mandarin is staking everything on a legal fight to halt Labour's secretive £30 billion handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 3 June 2025Ben Habib to Match Every Pound in Legal Fight Against the Chagos Betrayal
Our chairman Ben Habib will double every donation up to £10,000 as the Great British PAC races to shield the British Chagossian fronting a Judicial Review of the Government's secret Chagos deal.
Great British PAC · 2 June 2025Crowdfunder Launched for Judicial Review to Halt the Chagos Betrayal
With Parliament weeks from voting on the £30+ billion Chagos surrender, our campaign is racing to fund a Judicial Review and shield British Chagossian Misley Mandarin.
Great British PAC · 2 June 202510,000 Sign Our Petition Urging MPs to Block Starmer's Chagos Surrender
More than 10,000 Britons have backed our petition in under a week, demanding Parliament throw out Keir Starmer's secretive handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
Great British PAC · 31 May 2025Scotland's Silenced Majority Deserves a Voice, and the Great British PAC Delivers
Our County Director for the Scottish Borders explains why pro-UK voters north of the border are crying out for the kind of organised, bottom-up movement the Great British PAC has built.
Peter Morris · 29 May 2025Beijing Cheers the Chagos Deal Starmer Swore China Opposed
The Prime Minister insisted Russia, China and Iran stood against his Chagos surrender. Then China's own ambassador offered “massive congratulations” — and MPs want answers.
Great British PAC · 29 May 20253,000 Sign Overnight: Public Demands MPs Kill the Chagos Surrender Deal
Our petition to halt the Chagos handover passed 3,000 signatures in under 12 hours. The message to Parliament is plain: reject this undemocratic, costly deal.
Great British PAC · 26 May 2025High Court Halts Chagos Treaty in Overnight Ruling That Stunned Ministers
Hours before the UK was due to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a Chagossian claimant won an emergency overnight order freezing the treaty. Our campaign was proud to help.
Great British PAC · 22 May 2025Starmer's EU Reset Will Backfire — Our Great Repeal Is Coming in 2029
Labour calls its EU "reset" a diplomatic triumph. We call it surrender. Here is why the Great British PAC is already building the Great Repeal for 2029.
Great British PAC · 18 May 2025Chagos Deal Paused: Campaigners Hail a Win for Britain — For Now
Downing Street has halted its plan to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius amid fury over the cost and the threat of a backbench revolt. Campaigners are claiming a victory.
Great British PAC · 16 May 2025Reclaiming Our Campuses: A Call to Students to Stand Up for Britain
Jake Reed, our Universities Director, explains why the Great British PAC is building a nationwide network of young patriots to bring real debate back to campus.
Jake Reed · 12 May 2025Union Jack to Rule the Roost as Reform UK Councils Adopt PAC Flag Plan
Our campaign floated it, and now it's flying. Reform UK-run councils in England are moving to scrap rainbow, EU and political banners, leaving only the Union Jack, St George's Cross and county flags on official buildings.
Great British PAC · 5 May 2025Help Us Build a Great British Savings Plan
We are crowdsourcing the policies and tax breaks that would reward Britons for saving and investing at home. Add your ideas to our Policy Platform and help shape the Great British Savings Plan.
Great British PAC · 29 April 2025Our New Survivor Archive Will Expose the Grooming Gang Truth
As Labour shelves five grooming gang inquiries, the Great British PAC's Donna Edmunds is launching a national survivor archive to record the truth and pursue justice.
Great British PAC · 14 April 2025Chagos Surrender Breaks International Law — The Right Must Unite to Defend Britain
Self-determination is a binding norm no treaty can override, and neither the Chagossians nor the British people consent to Starmer's giveaway. GBPAC Policy Director Andrew Hunt argues the right must act now.
Andrew Hunt · 1 April 2025Youth Revolt Spreads as Britain's Young Voices Defend Northern Ireland's Democratic Rights
From Cambridge to Cardiff, young Britons are rallying behind Northern Irish peers who say Labour has engineered the biggest reversal of UK citizenship in our history.
Great British PAC · 31 March 2025Farage Rides the Pothole Wave: Our Policy Platform Resurfaces British Politics
Our new participatory democracy site, PolicyPlatform.co.uk, is already shaping the 2025 elections — and one crowdsourced idea about potholes has caught Nigel Farage's eye.
Great British PAC · 29 March 2025The Great British PAC Arrives: A New Patriotic Force in UK Politics
Britain's first privately funded political action committee has launched, drawing on the American PAC model to unite the right and ready it to govern by 2029.
Great British PAC · 22 March 2025The Free Muskosphere: A Free-Speech Tariff Zone, Proposed by the Great British PAC
What if censorious governments paid a literal price for muzzling their citizens? The Great British PAC sets out a bold trade idea that rewards free-speaking nations and tariffs the censors.
Great British PAC · 22 February 2025Britain's Quiet Coup: The Activist Judges Hijacking Our Democracy
An unelected judicial elite is overruling ministers, gagging MPs and rewriting policy without a single vote cast. This is not the rule of law. It is rule by lawyers.
Claire Bullivant · 20 February 2025How Great British PAC's Migration Research Reshaped Government Policy
When Kemi Badenoch warned that Labour's migration failures could leave taxpayers facing a £200 billion bill, the figures had a familiar ring. They grew directly out of our campaign.
Great British PAC · 10 February 2025Make Mining Towns Great Again: An Underground Nuclear and AI Revolution
Britain's forgotten mining towns could become the most prosperous, high-tech places on the planet. Our Policy Platform sets out how underground reactors and AI could level them up.
Andrew Hunt · 7 February 2025Could Ben Habib Be the Man to Unite Britain's Fractured Right?
Sharp-witted, fearless and never afraid of a scrap, Ben Habib is back with a bold new venture. Could the Great British PAC be the vehicle that finally brings the right together?
Great British PAC · 27 January 2025Starmer Forced Into Chagos U-Turn as Cross-Party Pressure Bites
Downing Street has paused its rushed handover of the Chagos Islands after a cross-party revolt, with Priti Patel branding the retreat a “complete humiliation” for Labour.
Great British PAC · 15 January 2025Cross-Party Heavyweights Tell Starmer: Bin the £9bn Chagos Sell-Out
Truss, Farage, Braverman, Habib and Rees-Mogg are among the signatories of a blistering open letter demanding the Prime Minister halt his rushed surrender of the Chagos Islands.
Great British PAC · 15 January 2025Experts Urge Trump to Block Labour's Chagos Handover to Mauritius
Defence experts, opposition voices and Chagossians are demanding Donald Trump intervene to stop Labour surrendering the strategically vital Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
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