Michael Crick has left Channel 4 News. This is an archive of his reports.
MPs on the transport committee will say that if ministers continue to face opposition at the southern end of the proposed HS2 line, they ought to think about switching the project round, and start instead in the north, reports Michael Crick.
A recession? Perhaps not technically. But many would argue that GDP per head is a much more meaningful measure of economic activity.
The latest on the Liam Fox/Adam Werritty affair, from Michael Crick.
runners and riders now Liam Fox forced to resign as Defence Secretary.
Channel 4 News Political Correspondent Michael Crick blogs on the Adam Werritty saga and a London street with a definite fox problem.
The announcement that Sir Gus O’Donnell’s is retiring as Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service at the end of this year comes as no surprise reports political correspondent Michael Crick
Spare a thought for Sarah Wollaston as she comes face-to-face with Westminster colleagues when the Commons returns next week. Wollaston, a former GP, may now be in some trouble for remarks she made about fellow-MPs while speaking at a fringe meeting at the Tory conference on Tuesday. Wollaston came to prominence in 2009 when she…
Michael Crick blogs from the Conservative Party conference.
It was BBC Scotland political correspondent Tim Reid who in 2008 overheard David Miliband saying he didn’t want to be seen to be openly challenging Gordon Brown. Now Reid has embarrassed the younger of the Miliband brothers, blogs Michael Crick.
Michael Crick asks: will London Mayor Boris Johnson fulfil Toby Young’s prediction in the latest edition of The Spectator, and become Conservative Party leader by 2018?
Ed Miliband has one big advantage. He’s the first leader of the opposition in history who knows, pretty much for certain, when the next election will be – in May 2015. The new legislation setting down that all parliaments will last five years in future makes it much easier for an opposition to plan. Only…
Labour is holding its annual conference in Liverpool for the first time since 1925 – and the only previous occasion was in 1905 (when officially the party was called the Labour Representation Committee). Coming here marks something of a rapprochement between the Labour Party and this great city.
It was one part of the Lib Dems conference they didn’t want us to film. The party’s annual Corporate Day, at which 80 businessmen have paid £800 each to attend meetings, writes Michael Crick.
Thirty five years in, and Political Correspondent Michael Crick is still looking forawrd to this year’s conference season…