Crick’s Picks: Tribalism, marriage and mugs
Michael Crick on the highlights of today at the Liberal Democrat party conference – from mugs, to Jon Cruddas’s about-turn, to Nick Clegg’s wedding anniversary.
Michael Crick
Michael Crick has left Channel 4 News. This is an archive of his reports.
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Flirting with a Lib-Lab pact?
Vince Cable started it when he admitted exchanging texts with Ed Miliband recently. Now it seems senior Lib Dems are falling over themselves to highlight their conversations with Labour.
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Crick’s picks of the Lib Dem conference
Plebs looks set to be the word to dominate both the Liberal Democrat and Labour conferences over the next fortnight. Which Lib Dem will get there first? Who will proudly confess to being a pleb?
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Video: Andrew Mitchell ‘Gate-gate’ row rumbles on
The Conservative chief whip is accused of swearing at police officers in Downing Street and allegedly called them “plebs” after they refused to let him bring his bike through a gate.
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Nigel Farage: a one-man band?
Some in UKIP are coming to fear the party is becoming a one-man band, and accuse Nigel Farage of developing into a dictator.
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Mitchell outburst damaging, but could be check he needs
Andrew Mitchell’s outburst to the Downing Street policeman is damaging to his government, his party and to him in so many different ways but could it ultimately strengthen his career?
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Minor crime leads to fourth PCC election drop-out
What a farce! Yet another of this November’s candidates for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections has stood down over a minor offence committed while he was a teenager.
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Hillsborough: What we have overlooked
Political Correspondent Michael Crick considers why the police may have been slow to react as Liverpool fans were crushed to death and why it is not only The Sun which is guilty of mis-reporting.
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Michael Mates dodges Dolphin Square questions
I finally caught up with Michael Mates on camera today, on what was really the first full day of his campaign as Conservative candidate for police commissioner in Hampshire.
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Cameron’s pledge on women ministers unlikely to be met
David Cameron seems, in effect, to have ditched his long-held pledge that one third of the members of his government will be women by the end of this parliament.
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Mates set to make over £100,000 from Dolphin Square windfall
The questions about Michael Mates continue and it now appears that on top of the estimated £40,000 windfall he got from being a tenant of Dolphin Square, he’s now managed to use the money to make a substantial profit.
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Pressure on Mates to step down grows
The pressure on Michael Mates to stand down as Conservative candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Hampshire grew this afternoon when a second senior Tory in the area questioned his suitability to run in November’s election.
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Mates fights bid by senior Hampshire Tories to sack him
David Cameron was less than fully supportive when the Labour MP Gavin Shuker asked him at Question Time today about whether he “supports” his candidate for police commissioner in Hampshire.
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How Theresa May met Simon Weston
Did Simon Weston launch his campaign on this basis of duff advice and assurances from Theresa May, asks Michael Crick?
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Andy Coulson in court over phone hacking
David Cameron’s former spin doctor Andy Coulson was among seven people in court earlier charged in connection with the phone hacking scandal.
