Do tough times bind the coalition tighter and longer?
The coalition has effectively already started shading in the cash envelope but there is, on current numbers, £24bn still to colour in. The significance of that? Enormous.
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The ruling coalition of President Alassane Ouattara is expected to comfortably win Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Ivory Coast – the first since 2000.
The coalition has effectively already started shading in the cash envelope but there is, on current numbers, £24bn still to colour in. The significance of that? Enormous.
The committee also expects the Tories and the Lib Dems to cook up some kind of cosy deal and try to impose it on Labour after the next round of failed party talks about party spending, writes Gary Gibbon.
As the latest unemployment figures are released, Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long looks at one group of people who seem to be particularly badly affected – women.
The outgoing Greek prime minister has agreed to a crisis coalition which will back an international bailout deal within 24 hours. It follows a weekend of intense wrangling, as Jane Deith reports.
Liberal Democrat President Tim Farron tells Channel 4 Political Editor Gary Gibbon he regrets saying his party was destined for a divorce from the Conservatives.
Eurozone problems are raising Tory hopes of renegotiating the EU treaty. But as Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports, their LibDem coalition partners aren’t so keen on rowing back from Europe.
Faisal Islam on the fall-out from the downgrading of Britain’s growth figures
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon asks whether the Ministry of Justice has been getting its sums wrong on sentencing policy.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that the Coalition is committing Britain to fundamental reforms “for which no one voted”. The Prime Minister says he profoundly disagrees with the comments.
As David Cameron announces some changes to controversial NHS reforms Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon asks whether the policy, aimed at driving down costs, has cost the coalition dear?
“There are mutterings this is all to do with a wildlife centre in David Cameron’s constituency but he might also be worried about looking too politically correct.”
“The Cabinet Secretary, I’m told, wants to make sure that civil servants are prepared for the Lib Dems downgrading cooperation to something way short of a coalition before 2015.”
Leaks from a Parliamentary Committee could spell the end of any future place in the Government for David Laws, one of the surviving founding fathers of the coalition who still has allies in both the Lib Dems and the Tory party.
can’t help wondering what Nick Clegg and David Cameron gave each other as anniversary gifts today. Last night I heard a clever suggestion from one wily operator for Dave’s present to Nick that could be just the thing for both sides : the Department of Health. Nick Clegg says the coalition is going to change after the election drubbing last week, and at the weekend he said the NHS was his absolute priority now. He even said that he would veto the bill if it didn’t meet his standards. He needs a big win, having lost AV and tuition fees.