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Less than a month after David Cameron told the Commons the decision to delay replacing Trident would “save around £1.2bn”, the defence secretary appears to be arguing quite the opposite. What’s going on?
Shadow Immigration minister Phil Woolas is suspended from the Labour party after his election as MP was declared void. Labour leader Ed Miliband tells Channel 4 News it was right to suspend him.
If the government wants to take on the idea of what people can expect the state to provide, it is probably only a matter of time before somebody points the spotlight on the people making the rules for the rest of us again, and asks: “Why should they get any more than us?”
As the cuts cause controversy across the country we take a look at the fallout and meet those affected. Elsewhere three peers are suspended and Microsoft launches a new phone, but can it rival Apple?
We’ve had the numbers from the government’s spending review, but what about the theatre? Broadcaster Peter McHugh takes a less than serious look at George Osborne’s Westminster address.
The day after their dramatic rescue, three of the 33 Chilean miners have been released from hospital. Channel 4 News talks to an expert about their psychological well-being.
Jon Snow
Jon Snow blogs on his journey to the Liberal Democrat conference in Liverpool – and his first impressions of the mood of delegates about the party’s coalition deal with the Conservatives.
An independent report into health services for children following the death of Peter Connolly – Baby P – is critical of the standards of care, describing them as “often mediocre or worse.”
Former Labour minister Phil Woolas is accused of stirring up racial divisions in a tightly-fought election campaign against his Lib Dem rival in Oldham East and Saddleworth, a court has been told.
Eleven workers killed, nearly five million barrels of oil in the sea, a 20 billion dollar fund to cover the damage – the cost of the Deepwater Horizon disaster goes beyond pounds or dollars.
As another coalition minister reveals he is gay, Channel 4 News speaks to former government equalities commissioner and now head of Stonewall, Ben Summerskill, about being gay in politics.
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon blogs on Denis MacShane’s reponse to Ipsa’s publication of “incident reports” of MPs allegedly abusing its staff.
Gary Gibbon
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has published 10 “incident reports” of MPs allegedly abusing its staff.
One hundred days of a coalition government, and this week we can write the words that perhaps only the man himself thought possible: Nick Clegg is in charge. Broadcaster Peter McHugh asks, what next?
Jon Snow
You won’t be seeing much news coverage of this. In this age of austerity and cuts, the House of Lords spent yesterday afternoon debating their remuneration.