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Gary Gibbon
One Cabinet minister told me a rumour of an early election announcement had gone around the reception room just before they filed into Cabinet. Until that moment, the minister said, “not a clue.” The minister said he looked long and hard round the room to check facial expressions as the Prime Minister said more or less…
If we run polling numbers through the Electoral Calculus prediction model, things don’t look good for Labour.
Gary Gibbon
Brexit changed the dynamics of this argument for some ministers. You have to look mad keen for business opportunities, you can’t afford to play into a narrative that Britain is turning inwards.
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May batted away all attempts by MPs to make her spell out her Brexit renegotiation strategy. There will be no running commentary she said – repeatedly.
Gary Gibbon
The Cabinet has agreed that triggering Brexit won’t need a vote in Parliament. Theresa May wants to push ahead and trigger Article 50 in January/February 2017.
Gary Gibbon
While Brussels and Berlin teemed with reaction, Edinburgh too… London seemed strangely silent.
Gary Gibbon
He said that the issue “above all” is the economy, in the knowledge that for many voters “immigration” tops it.
Gary Gibbon
Two sides to his personality have long vied in Michael Gove’s political career: the free-thinker and the ambitious ally of George Osborne and David Cameron.
Gary Gibbon
The Prime Minister found himself in Wiltshire when the Speaker would’ve liked him to be speaking to the Commons answering an Urgent Question on the EU draft deal.
Muslim women could be deported if they fail a new English test – or so the headline-writers would have us believe. What are the facts?
David Cameron’s policy chief apologises for blaming riots in black urban communities on “bad moral attitudes” in a memo written in the 1980s.
Gary Gibbon
David Cameron may have been at his most diplomatic to persuade MPs to back airstrikes on Syria, but his claims over the scale of Syrian opposition ground forces have raised doubts.
Gary Gibbon
The Labour leader will have to respond to a statement from David Cameron calling for Britain to become involved in military air strikes in Syria.
The Lords are debating whether to scupper George Osborne’s latest change to tax credits. What’s it all about?
Gary Gibbon
Long marchers from the 2005 Cameron leadership bid will hope it’s a return to his original programme of work, but he now faces divisive and headline-hogging battles.