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Lib Dems – daring to be different
Gary Gibbon on how the Lib Dems are trying to put clear blue water between themselves and the Conservatives.
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It’s no entente cordiale at the Liberal Democrats conference this year – as senior party figures line up to condemn their Tory coalition partners, writes Felicity Spector.
Gary Gibbon on how the Lib Dems are trying to put clear blue water between themselves and the Conservatives.
Six designers have had their futuristic visions for visually pleasing electricity pylons shortlisted for a competition that could see their plans spark into life.
The Boundary Commission for England’s recommendations for the redrawing of constituencies have thrown up several surprises. We look at some of the winners and the losers.
Few English MPs will escape changes to their constituency borders in today’s Boundary Commission’s recommendations, writes political consultant Lewis Baston.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Chancellor George Osborne are among a number of big political names who face having their consitutency boundaries redrawn. Channel 4 News analyses the changes.
All eyes turn to the arrival in the UK of News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch, who says his first priority is Rebekah Brooks, despite facing mounting pressure to drop his takeover bid for BSkyB.
The Government is warned that it is failing to meet legally-binding carbon emissions targets. Tom Clarke looks at the figures and assesses what they mean.
Somehow the slightly awkward ones often fall on my days in the chair – those interviews about one thing with somebody currently famous for another, when colleagues say things along the lines of “obviously you’re going to ask about the sex change” when we are really supposed to talking about credit default swaps, writes Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
Faisal Islam unpicks the peculiar government response to inflates energy bills.
Britain’s hard-pressed householders face a new blow, as the big power companies prepare a round of double-digit price rises. Faisal Islam says it will push up inflation and pressure interest rates.
The iconic steel electricity pylons that line motorways and spans valleys are due for a major makeover. As Tom Clarke reports, a competition is aiming to make the network more “visually pleasing”.
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond is urging Chancellor George Osborne to reconsider the “smash and grab” raid on North Sea oil revenues during meetings at the Treasury.
What next for embattled Justice Secretary Ken Clarke, after his controversial comments on rape? Krishnan Guru-Murthy looks at what the Prime Minister might be thinking.
Britain’s chief nuclear adviser says the country’s nuclear plants are not at risk of replicating Japan’s nuclear crisis but Greenpeace tells Channel 4 News his findings are premature.