Video: Bloom compares student to Richard III
The Oxford Union releases a video clip of the MEP Godfrey Bloom asking a physically disabled student, David Browne: “Are you Richard III, or not?”
Michael Crick
Michael Crick has left Channel 4 News. This is an archive of his reports.
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Cameron restates EU referendum pledge
Mr Cameron has again promised a referendum on Britains EU membership after the next election. But he could not hide his disappointment that a bill to enshrine it in law fell in the Lords today.
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Godfrey Bloom does it again
In an Oxford Union debate last night, Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom appears to have topped his Bongbongoland comment, and his talk of “sluts”, and rapping me over the head with a Ukip brochure.
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Hearing Guy Burgess’s plummy, upper-class voice for the first time
It is astonishing that no other audio recording of Guy Burgess seems to exist anywhere else in the world, even though Burgess worked for the BBC for more than five years.
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Lib Dems in disarray over Lord Rennard refusal to apologise
Nick Clegg is considering whether Lord Rennard should be kicked out of the Liberal Democrats – because his refusal to apologise over his inappropriate behaviour brings the party into disrepute.
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‘Plebgate’ officer convicted – but big questions remain
So Keith Wallis has admitted his guilt and faces the prospect of several months in jail. But is still doesn’t clear Andrew Mitchell’s name, as another policeman stands by his account of “plebgate”.
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Has Dominic Grieve misled parliament over CPS libel deal?
Dominic Grieve tells David Davis in House of Commons he is looking into whether his Parliamentary Answer on CPS libel settlements was accurate.
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Johnson: Tories got it ‘completely wrong’ on Mandela
Boris Johnson tells Michael Crick the Tories got it “completely wrong” on Mandela in the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher called the ANC a terrorist group.
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Mandela ‘taught the world spirit of forgiveness’
Michael Crick speaks to members of South African community in Trafalgar Square, Central London, the home of anti-apartheid rallies for three decades from 1960.
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Secrets of the shortlist: why an Italian anorak puts us Brits to shame
They are the spawning grounds for the prime ministers of the future, so why do British political parties and the British media take so little trouble to report on the selection of our future MPs?
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Unite choosing Labour’s candidates: is Cameron correct?
David Cameron has again said that Unite was choosing Labour’s candidates. By my counting, the union’s been successful in under half of the seats they’ve specifically targeted – not the best success rate…
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Fraud allegations are ‘a political smear’, says Grant Shapps
Police not to investigate allegations against Shapps, but Met lawyers say software selling may constitute offence of fraud.
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Hague: GCHQ modified my phone to stop bugging
William Hague has revealed that GCHQ, the British intelligence gathering operation in Cheltenham, has modified his telephone to stop people bugging it – the Chinese especially.
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How David Cameron can win a majority in 2016
Some Conservatives might not be too distressed if Scotland were to leave the United Kingdom. Not least because it would make it a lot harder for Labour to win a Westminster majority ever gain.
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Police officers grilled over ‘plebgate’ meeting
MPs have quizzed key figures from the police over the plebgate affair, which engulfed politician Andrew Mitchell last year.
