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George Osborne was meant to be in Beijing on his own, not sharing the stage with Boris Johnson. Why the double act? Gary Gibbon investigates.
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George Osborne was meant to be in Beijing on his own, not sharing the stage with Boris Johnson. Why the double act? Gary Gibbon investigates.
In conversation with Gary Gibbon – George Osborne tells Channel 4 News what his hair reveals about his economic policy and how the Tories “never really dealt” with Tony Blair as a political opponent.
Boris Johnson and Ed Miliband stole today’s headlines – but tomorrow the prime minister will want to the focus on the economy, says Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
In conversation with Gary Gibbon: George Osborne denies enduring “dark nights of the soul” over the economy and says he enjoys the job “even when it has its moments”.
Dismissing the warnings about stoking house prices David Cameron brings forward his Help to Buy scheme to start next week. Gary Gibbon reports from the Conservative party conference.
Ed Miliband’s new, vote-winning energy idea – the freezing of energy bills for two years – is not that new, Gary Gibbon finds – and the Tories don’t think it will be a significant vote winner either.
The row over the Tory strategist, Lynton Crosby, rumbles on. Michael Crick reports on the continuing questions over links with lobbyists, while Gary Gibbon questions David Cameron on what was said.
The Euro-sceptic right of the Tory party are pretty bushy-tailed after Lord Lawson’s article in The Times, writes Gary Gibbon.
With 34 local councils going to the polls this week, Gary Gibbon reports on the campaign and talks to Prime Minister David Cameron about the coalition, divisions and the chance of Tory victories.
Inside Margaret Thatcher’s funeral: Political Editor Gary Gibbon on the “walking Madame Tussauds” of political yesteryear gathered in St Paul’s.
Could any Tory leader have delivered “Thatcherism”? Before the Iron Lady died Gary Gibbon asked Michael Heseltine about his views of the woman he served then tried to topple.
Margaret Thatcher was Britain’s first woman prime minister. And, as Gary Gibbon writes, at her death the Iron Lady leaves behind a country very different from the one she once led.
Have Treasury civil servants been sending coded warnings that public sector cuts might be getting out of hand? The IFS thinks so, blogs Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
Britain’s most respected economic think tank was warns of “severe” spending cuts ahead. Our Political Editor, Gary Gibbon, reports from Westminster.
With headlines suggesting David Cameron is preparing to push a tougher Tory line on issues such as immigration, Political Editor Gary Gibbon asks if the PM is trying to imitate Ukip?