Channel 4 News is 30 – and I was there at the start
What were YOU doing 30 years ago today? It’s Channel 4 News’s birthday… but things were very different in the beginning.
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What were YOU doing 30 years ago today? It’s Channel 4 News’s birthday… but things were very different in the beginning.
Channel 4 News still can’t find Corinne Stockheath of Surrey who allegedly testified on Grant Shapps’ website. Would the real Corinne please stand up?
As the impact of “plebgate” lingers at the Conservative Party conference, rumours sweep the conference hall that the chief whip Andrew Mitchell is about to resign.
Former miners’ union boss Arthur Scargill gives evidence at the high court today, as his old union, the NUM, effectively try to evict him from the Barbican flat he has used for more than 30 years.
One man who must be in agony over the Andrew Mitchell is his father, Sir David Mitchell, who was an Conservative MP for 33 years.
Some in UKIP are coming to fear the party is becoming a one-man band, and accuse Nigel Farage of developing into a dictator.
Andrew Mitchell’s outburst to the Downing Street policeman is damaging to his government, his party and to him in so many different ways but could it ultimately strengthen his career?
David Cameron seems, in effect, to have ditched his long-held pledge that one third of the members of his government will be women by the end of this parliament.
The questions about Michael Mates continue and it now appears that on top of the estimated £40,000 windfall he got from being a tenant of Dolphin Square, he’s now managed to use the money to make a substantial profit.
The pressure on Michael Mates to stand down as Conservative candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Hampshire grew this afternoon when a second senior Tory in the area questioned his suitability to run in November’s election.
David Cameron was less than fully supportive when the Labour MP Gavin Shuker asked him at Question Time today about whether he “supports” his candidate for police commissioner in Hampshire.
David Cameron says £1bn is being spent on sports in schools. FactCheck’s looked, but we can’t find it.
“That would be the ultimate irony of a saga that contains several ironies already – like appointing more unelected lords so as to reduce the size of the elected Commons.”
Tonight the Coalition is probably at it’s lowest ebb. If it wasn’t for the Olympics and the fact most MPs are on holiday, then this would be a much bigger story. There are serious tit-for-tat exchanges, and could soon be all-out war.
Relations within the coalition grew significantly worse today, with Conservative sources in Whitehall admitting defeat on the coalition’s plans for Lords reform.