Lib Dem tuition fees rebellion – or not
Gary Gibbon learns the Liberal Democrats do not expect a rebellion by 30 MPs over university reform, despite NUS claims that they are lining up to protest.
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Gary Gibbon learns the Liberal Democrats do not expect a rebellion by 30 MPs over university reform, despite NUS claims that they are lining up to protest.
Gary Gibbon interviews Lord Browne fresh from presenting his review of higher education to a clutch of top politicians.
Our Political Editor with the latest from the crunch meeting of Lib Dem MPs in Westminster tonight on the reform of university tuition fees.
The Coalition will go further than Lord Browne in requiring some graduates to pay back more than the cost of their degree, says our Political Editor.
Gary Gibbon on the sanctions being considered on bank bonuses – and Lib Dem relations with The Guardian.
Nick Clegg is set to defend the coalition deal with the Conservatives to his party today at the Liberal Democrat conference, saying it is the “right government for right now”.
Nick Clegg defends his deal with the Conservatives telling the Liberal Democrats that the coalition will “govern well for the next five years”. Political Editor Gary Gibbon analyses the reaction.
Nick Clegg tells delegates at the Liberal Democrat conference to “stick by us” as he defends the coalition, broadcaster Peter McHugh analyses the deputy prime minister’s performance.
We should enjoy being in power, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg tells activists, with a defence of his role in the coalition. Political Editor Gary Gibbon meets Mr Clegg’s uneasy audience.
The government is set to go ahead with plans to sell or privatise the Royal Mail. The CWU tells Channel 4 News it will not “rule anything out” in its fight to keep the company in public hands.
Channel 4 News FactCheck analyses the London Mayor Boris Johnson’s claim that the government’s cap on immigration from outside the EU is putting the economic recovery at risk
The biggest fine ever meted out to any financial services company. Britain’s regulator the FSA visits a fine of £17.5m on the US investment bank Goldman Sachs (casino, to use Vince Cable’s word on Channel 4 News last night). Suddenly £17.5m seems a very small sum. And sources say it would have been considerably bigger…
Exclusive: The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has told the government that its cap on the number of non-EU immigrants allowed to work in Britain will damage the economy, Channel 4 News learns.
Gary Gibbon blogs on the tough choices facing the coalition government with the impending publication of Lord Browne’s review into higher education funding.
The ructions at the top of Barclays have been somewhat Shakespearean in character over the past few years. It was said that US-born investment banker Bob Diamond was the foil for the calmer, older school John Varley. Diamond, currently the president of Barclays, was the architect of the wildly successful purchase of the bankrupt core…