Cameron: exclude Farage from TV debates
Include UKIP in televised debates? No thanks, David Cameron says, as Michael Crick reports.
Michael Crick
Michael Crick has left Channel 4 News. This is an archive of his reports.
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Water under the bridge for Green and Grieve?
It was more than 30 years ago: when police minister Damien Green was thrown off a bridge in Oxford by a rowdy bunch of fellow students. How exactly was his cabinet colleague Dominic Grieve involved?
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‘Technical problems for years’ at level crossing where man died
A man killed at a level-crossing in Yarnton in Oxfordshire this afternoon may have been the victim of technical problems which have beset the crossing for years, according to an industry source.
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Downton Abbey – the Cameron connection
Those, like me, who are looking forward to the Christmas Day special of Downton Abbey on ITV may be interested in a festive morse.
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Andrew Mitchell ‘plebgate’ row: the key questions
After a Channel 4 News and Dispatches investigation questions the account recorded in a police log and results in calls for an investigation, Michael Crick answers the key questions on the row.
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Christine Hamilton lined up to become Ukip MEP
I hereby predict that in the European elections in 2014, Christine Hamilton will be elected an MEP for Ukip. And her husband Neil could well become a Ukip MEP as well.
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After Rotherham, Ukip aims to top the 2014 Euro poll
Ukip achieved its highest ever percentage vote in yesterday’s Rotherham by-election. The party’s next ambition is to overtake the Lib Dems and top the 2014 elections for the European parliament.
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By-elections could mean new boost for small parties
The real story of tomorrow’s by-elections in Rotherham, Middlesbrough and Croydon North could be further advances for non-establishment parties like Ukip and Respect.
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Energy deal may not be such good politics for Osborne
Could George Osborne’s victory over energy policy turn out to be Pyrrhic?
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Hodge threatens Tory MP Patel with libel writ over family shares
Margaret Hodge’s shareholding in her family’s multi-national steel-trading firm Stemcor is at the centre of a political spat – at a time when she’s leading an inquiry into tax avoidance.
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Can Cameron get ‘Lynton without the Lyntonism’?
The problem for those around David Cameron is that they want Lynton Crosby’s election skills – not his ideological baggage. But can the Conservatives get the tactics and strategy without the politics?
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Smaller parties thrive as voters desert the ‘big three’
Elections over the past 40 years have seen the growing willingness of voters to desert Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem – a trend which continued in yesterday’s polls.
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Are voters lacking enthusiasm for police commissioner poll?
It is just two days until the first ever election for police and crime commissioners. Michael Crick finds out whether the contest is capturing the imagination of voters in the Thames Valley.
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A roasting for Starbucks..but a grilling for Hodge?
As the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) gets ready to grill multinational companies on tax avoidance, will its chairwoman declare her own interest?
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What can the media learn from previous scandals?
As news about injustice and alleged establishment cover-ups from the 1970s and 1980s continue to emerge, were the media at fault for not investigating rumours and how has reporting changed since then?
