What happens if the election result isn’t clean cut?
Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon explores the possibility that the 2010 general election could create a hung parliament.
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Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon explores the possibility that the 2010 general election could create a hung parliament.
Just interviewed MP Adam Holloway whose pamphlet on Iraq prompted the front page of the Daily Mail this morning: “Was Iraqi cabbie source of dodgy dossier?” The paper claims that an Iraqi taxi driver “…provided the information that Saddam Hussein could fire weapons at British targets within 45 minutes.” But Adam Holloway both in his…
Another big day in the Iraq inquiry with the appearance this afternoon of Sir John Scarlett, chair of the joint intelligence committee at the time of the Iraq invasion.
Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq war inquiry: “Explosive” evidence from Major General Tim Cross reveals Tony Blair was told “we are not ready” for post-war Iraq, writes the Iraq Inquiry Blogger for Channel 4 News.
The Speaker has written to MPs saying how the Commons will deal with the refuseniks who won’t pay up Sir Thomas Legg’s expenses demands.
A threat to civilisation or a natural cycle in the life of planet earth? Although the scientific consensus is that man-made global warming is with us, there are still prominent deniers in the debate.
Day two of the Iraq War Inquiry led by Sir John Chilcot will focus on weapons of mass destruction and how the US/UK coalition shifted from “containment” policies to regime change, writes the Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry Blogger.
For a war that seared onto our TV screens via the US military doctrine of “shock and awe” the UK’s official inquiry into the Iraq conflict just started with a distinctly English sang froid. First things first – another inquiry? You could be forgiven a tinge of déjà vu, but the two best-known investigations that…
Nearly eight million people watched BNP leader Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time last night. How did the claims they heard check out?
We’ve received the following posting from Dr Catherine Maternowska, who works in the Mombasa hospital featured in last month’s film on child sex abuse in Kenya. The hope among the hospital’s staff is that the film – and Catherine’s blog – will promote awareness, both at home and abroad, of the problems Kenyan children face.…
Peter Mandelson’s speech was all the talk of the fringe last night. l interviewed him at a fringe meeting this morning and he insisted he didn’t do “pantomime”. I resisted the inclination to say “OH YES YOU DO!” One Cabinet minister last night said the speech was a “Gaddafi-like” indulgence. A couple of others I’ve…
Kenya’s beaches are the stuff holiday brochures are made of – mile after mile of glistening white sand, kissed by equatorial sun. Tourism is a major money spinner for one of the world’s poorest countries, but Kenya’s tropical paradise hides a dark secret. We have been on a harrowing journey – from nightclubs where European…
The first Scottish opinion poll shows 42% of voters approve of Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill’s decision to let Mr al-Megrahi go home.
At the Iraq Inquiry launch. Sir John Chilcot says don’t expect a report before the end of 2010 at the earliest. Witnesses will have to give undertakings that their evidence is truthful, fair and accurate. Senior figures in the US will be spoken to privately as they were in the Butler inquiry. That report concluded…
For what it is worth, and it is worth very little, I think the Aussies are going to win the Lords test today. They will get the remaining 200 runs with one wicket to spare, and I say this after watching them for the two hours before bad light stopped play last night and watching most…