New peers – why the secrecy?
Channel 4 News Political Correspondent Michael Crick blogs on rumours that David Cameron is about to appoint 60-65 new peers
Michael Crick
Michael Crick has left Channel 4 News. This is an archive of his reports.
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Kilfoyle confirms he’s going for police job
The former Labour minister Peter Kilfoyle has confirmed to me that he has applied for the Labour nomination for November’s election for post of police and crime commissioner for Merseyside. Kilfoyle stood down as MP for Liverpool Walton at the last election after 19 years as an MP. The other contender for the Labour nomination…
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Who would replace Huhne?
The Lib Dem backbenches are not over-brimming with talent right now. I expect four or five ministers to lose their jobs when David Cameron initiates a large reshuffle later this year (including David Shutt in the Lords).
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Outrage at RBS boss’s bonus payout
Politicians and unions have criticised as “out of touch” the £963,000 bonus package awarded to Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester.
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Former ministers flock to police commissioner jobs
Channel 4 News Political Correspondent Michael Crick on the runners and riders for the police commissioner jobs.
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Unconventional Tory and his paranormal activity
Political Correspondent Michael Crick reports on how the Conservative Party has been accused of blocking one of its MEPs because of his expertise in the paranormal.
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Police commissioners: The runners and riders
Both the Conservatives and Labour are hoping to contest all 41 posts for elected police commissioners, though with little enthusiasm, writes Michael Crick.
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‘I will not make age an issue in this campaign’
If, as looks increasingly likely, Mitt Romney gets the Republican nomination, he’ll be 65 when he stands in the general election this November. And Republicans like elderly candidates.
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Michael family’s Wales takeover bid
Following last week’s announcement by Alun Michael that’s he’s trying to become Labour’s candidate for police and crime commissioner (PCC) for the South Wales area (as I forecast here a few weeks ago), his son Tal tweeted me this morning to announce that he himself is now running for police commissioner in North Wales.
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Osborne stands by child benefit cuts
After David Cameron’s warning of a child benefit “cliff edge”, Chancellor George Osborne confirms he will cut the benefit for higher-rate taxpayers but may change details, as Michael Crick reports.
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‘Tim Farron vs Rory Stewart’ quashed by cross-party deal
The contest between the Lib Dem’s Tim Farron and the Conservative’s Rory Stewart in Cumbria was set to be the highlight of the next elections. But a cross-party proposal for alternative boundaries looks set to avert the battle.
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Not a good week, or month, for Labour
The coalition leadership has dominated the media conversation over the last few weeks, leaving Labour to pick up the pieces of the party’s own internal wrangles.
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Cut it out Danny, say Lib Dem peers
Lib Dem peers are less than pleased with their party’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, one of the most powerful figures in the government, writes Political Correspondent Michael Crick.
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GO’D predicts coalition will last until 2015
Sir Gus O’Donnell, who retires on new year’s eve after six and a half years as Cabinet secretary, says he expects the coalition to last the course, a full five years.
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Jeremy Hunt supports BBC Orwell statue
George Orwell may have been one of the greatest journalists of the 20th century – many would say THE greatest – but BBC bosses are nervous about erecting a statue in his honour, blogs Michael Crick.
