Blair at Leveson – armed to the smiling white teeth
Mr Blair gave off the aura of a wise consultant giving pro-bono advice with Olympian detachment and objectivity. He’d waived his normal fee and was happy to help.
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Few politicians are confident enough to compare their cabinet colleagues to cleaning utensils – but Boris Johnson is one of them. The London mayor delivers a heartfelt speech to Tories in Birmingham.
Why, 15 months after pupils and teachers submitted allegations of widespread cheating at a Dulwich academy school, have exam boards failed to conclude their inquiries?
Labour leader Ed Miliband invokes the spirit of wartime Britain to argue that political leaders have a responsibility to ensure that “we leave our country a better place than we found it”.
In an exclusive interview with Channel 4 News, Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna says he is “hungry” for government and discusses his “greatest achievement” – coping with his father’s death.
After boxing and taekwondo were contested by women for the first time and women’s football pulled in record crowds, Channel 4 News asks if London 2012 was a turning point for women’s sport.
It’s all happening at the Aquatics Centre – or rather, outside it – as embattled Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt shakes hands with News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch. Channel 4 News’s Paraic O’Brien looks on.
A committee of MPs proposes that betting shops and casinos should be allowed to operate more high-stakes gambling machines.
As 3,500 more troops are drafted in to police the Olympics, a G4S duty manager tells Channel 4 News that some staff contracted to provide security have not been trained or deployed.
Mr Blair gave off the aura of a wise consultant giving pro-bono advice with Olympian detachment and objectivity. He’d waived his normal fee and was happy to help.
Latest reaction and analysis after a successful night for Labour in the local elections. Meanwhile, Boris Johnson looks set to beat off Ken Livingstone in the battle to be London mayor.
The Indian government says Dow Chemicals – a key London 2012 sponsor – is “tainted” because it now owns Union Carbide, the firm held responsible for the chemical disaster at Bophal, in India.
Dozens of alleged phone hacking victims, including Milly Dowler’s parents and Harry Potter creator JK Rowling, are named as “core participants” in the first stage of the inquiry into the scandal.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Chancellor George Osborne are among a number of big political names who face having their consitutency boundaries redrawn. Channel 4 News analyses the changes.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg pays tribute to communities and the police in Nottingham for their quick recovery from the “ugly and unacceptable” violence of the riots.
The leaders of all three of Britain’s political parties are out meeting members of the public today to try to address the concerns of those affected by the riots.