Gary Gibbon , Political Editor
Channel 4 News Political Editor gives his take on the latest news and gossip from the corridors of power in Westminster and beyond.
Gary Gibbon has been Channel 4 News Political Editor since 2005. He gives his take on the latest news and gossip from the corridors of power in Westminster and beyond.
Gary has worked on four general elections for Channel 4 News. His interview with Peter Mandelson in 2001 triggered the Northern Ireland Secretary's second resignation from the Cabinet.
In 2006, he won the Royal Television Society Home News Award with Jon Snow for the scoop on the Attorney General's Legal Advice on Iraq. Gary also revealed details of Blair's pre-War meeting with George Bush n 2008 and won the Political Studies Association Broadcast Journalist of the Year award.
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Keir Starmer pays back more than £6,000 for gifts amid donations row
The Prime Minister has paid back more than six thousand pounds for gifts he’s received since taking office – in a bid to curb the row over accepting freebies.
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Truss tells Tory conference she’d have done better than Sunak in election
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has told the Tory party conference they would have done much better in the election if she had still been Conservative leader.
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Sunak gives short speech at Tory Conference as leadership hopefuls lobby attendees
Rishi Sunak has been addressing Conservative Party members in a short speech on the first day of the Tory conference in Birmingham.
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Keir Starmer reportedly set to meet Donald Trump
Sir Keir Starmer will set out his approach to the crisis in Lebanon and other conflicts around the world when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York later.
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‘Time to leave is now’ – PM tells British nationals in Lebanon
At the UN in midtown Manhattan, the US and France are reported to be leading a new diplomatic effort to end hostilities in both Gaza and Lebanon.
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Prime Minister Starmer’s party conference speech analysed
Our political editor Garry Gibbon is travelling to the UN General Assembly in New York with the prime minister. He gave us his assessment of the prime minister’s speech.
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Labour reject austerity and insist better times are coming
At the Labour Party Conference, Chancellor Rachel Reeves struck a more positive tone about the economy after weeks of doom-laden warnings.
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Labour struggles to shake gifts and donors row as party conference begins
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner became the latest to defend the right of politicians to accept hospitality and donations but said she could understand why people are ‘angry’.
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Lib Dems conference: can Davey’s party replace the Conservatives?
At the Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton, many delegates are still euphoric at their party’s haul of seventy two seats at the General Election.
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Dozens of MPs refuse to back plans to cut winter fuel payments
Sir Keir Starmer has survived his second Commons rebellion in weeks.
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What might happen to Labour MPs who rebel against winter fuel cut?
Weeks ago, when a group of Labour MPs rebelled against the new government, they had the whip suspended for six months, sending shockwaves through the party. So what is likely to happen to any MPs who rebel this time?
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UK to suspend some arms exports to Israel, says Foreign Secretary
The Foreign Secretary David Lammy has suspended some arms sales to Israel.
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Sir Keir Starmer dodges questions on two-child benefit cap in PMQs
Sir Keir Starmer has dodged questions on the two-child benefit cap in his first Prime Minister’s Questions as PM.
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Starmer to suspend Labour MPs for rebelling over two-child benefit cap
The first rebellion of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership is expected in Parliament this evening as MPs vote on the Government’s legislative programme.
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Will Starmer’s summit with European leaders deliver results on illegal migration?
Calling them “friends and fellow Europeans”, Sir Keir Starmer has welcomed more than forty european leaders to a summit at Blenheim Palace.
