Gary Gibbon
David Laws: the first Westminster victim of Thursday’s results
He’s the first Westminster victim of Thursday’s results. Trying to come back on the pitch just as a “friendly” turned into a bit of a grudge match.
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New curbs on access to internet porn
Four of the main internet service providers are changing their sign-up procedures to force subscribers to make a early choice over enabling access to adult web content.
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LIVE BLOG: Liberal Democrat party conference
Latest updates, pictures and video from the Liberal Democrat autumn conference in Birmingham.
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Dark arts and light relief at the Lib Dem conference
It’s no entente cordiale at the Liberal Democrats conference this year – as senior party figures line up to condemn their Tory coalition partners, writes Felicity Spector.
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Boundary changes: winners and losers
The Boundary Commission for England’s recommendations for the redrawing of constituencies have thrown up several surprises. We look at some of the winners and the losers.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Gove to spell out EMA replacement plans
Our Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports on the deal thrashed out between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems on a replacement for the Educational Maintenance Allowance.
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Gove unveils EMA replacement: a £180m bursary fund
Education Secretary Michael Gove announces a new £180m bursary fund to help the poorest over 16-year-olds stay in education. It replaces the £560m EMA scheme cut in last year’s Spending Review.
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Lib Dem Minister in library row
Exclusive: A Liberal Democrat Minister is in hot water after telling her constituents to remove all the books out of her local library to prevent its closure, writes Cathy Newman.
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More cash needed for free nursery places scheme to succeed
A key government pledge to provide 15 hours of free nursery care for the most disadvantaged two-year-olds needs extra funding to succeed, a Channel 4 News investigation can reveal.
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FactCheck: how many Lib Dems will rebel over fees?
FactCheck analyses how many Liberal Democrat MPs will rebel in the vote on university tuition fees.
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Gary Gibbon
Heavy defeat for Lib Dem leadership on free schools
If Lib Dems, resourceful and determined activists and councilors some of them, decide they want to throw every spanner they can at the free schools movement they could be useful allies for the teacher unions and others already engaged in that campaign, writes Politicsl Editor Gary Gibbon.
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Lib Dem activists reject schools policy
The coalition’s schools policy comes under fire from activists at the Lib Dem conference in a move that risks embarrassing the party leadership, says Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
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Ofsted special needs report ‘too simplistic’
Unions react angrily as an Ofsted report accuses teachers of labelling too many students as having “special needs”. But one mother tells Channel 4 News the system has failed her son and his school.
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Big life expectancy gap between rich & poor?
Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, makes the claim that children born in the poorest neighbourhoods in his constituency of Sheffield will die 14 years earlier than those born in a more affluent neighbouring area. FactCheck took a look at it.
