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Zac Goldsmith has appeared on Channel 4 News to respond to questions raised about his campaign costs during the general election. The Conservative MP claimed the allegations were “a nonsense”.
A Channel 4 News investigation has raised questions over the election expenses of Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith. Here are the documents he submitted to his local returning officer in Richmond.
Jon Snow
My day yesterday was book-ended by raised voices and hatred. Both outbursts involved people of the same faith bitterly arguing with each other. As is my wont, I awakened to the tones of the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4. The day’s controversy centred on the news that Dr Jeffrey John – the gay Anglican…
Jon Snow
At the height of the MPs expenses scandal, the then Commons Speaker Michael Martin – himself under siege – agreed a meeting with the three main Westminster party leaders.
Jon Snow
Hard to believe, but the fact that the perfectly turned out Samantha Cameron was not wearing a hat whilst sitting demurely in the public gallery of the House of Lords represented a major parliamentary moment.
Jon Snow
As the election campaign enters its final few days, Jon Snow blogs on how this has been an election quite unlike any other.
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon blogs on how Gordon brown has gone on the attack as all the party leaders change their tactics in the second leaders’ debate.
Cathy Newman checks it out It’s tough at the top – as Nick Clegg is beginning to find out. Since being elected leader in 2007, the Liberal Democrat leader has struggled to get noticed. No longer. But his newfound celebrity has a downside. His past is coming back to haunt him. Things that might have…
Gary Gibbon
On crime, it’s come to life a bit. Gordon Brown told three jokes (well, quips) – very Commons style ones, a dig at the Tory posters of his face and the “airbrushed” ones of DC and a go at DC saying: “It’s not Question Time it’s answer time.” Really did sound a lot – too…
Jon Snow
Whilst the rest of us were yesterday marking that benchmark moment in our democracy when an election is called, the House of Lords was the scene of an awful climax to their Lordships’ expenses scandal. 78-year-old Lord Clarke of Hampstead was being flogged at the yard arm. Hard to know whether to feel sorry or…
Gary Gibbon continues his #asktheleaders profiles with a look at David Cameron’s relationship with his party.
Jon Snow
It predated the age of the Prime Ministerial Jag – if my memory serves, it was a Humber Super Snipe. The sense of excitement and anticipation was palpable. Ted Heath was spectacularly unpopular. Harold Wilson had only been out of power for four short years. It was 1974 – my first election as a reporter.…
Gary Gibbon
We’ve the first of three films looking at the main party leaders: a look at Nick Clegg. More blessings have been laid at his feet than for many a Liberal leader. But has he exploited them all? Party critics in the profile feel he hasn’t made the capital he might’ve done out of the expenses…
The Liberal Democrat leader could hold the balance of power in a hung parliament, but even he admits voters do not know much about him. Gary Gibbon starts his #asktheleaders profiles with Nick Clegg.
The Copenhagen summit took place under a cloud of sceptism after leaked emails appeared to show UK scientists exaggerating the threat of climate change.