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Gary Gibbon
People close to the PM say he was fed up seeing his father’s face linked to unsavoury business practices, wanted to defend his father and felt he personally had nothing to hide.
Gary Gibbon
The big debate now is over a renegotiation which will be followed by a giant safety valve for backbench discontent: their longed-for referendum.
Getting answers to difficult questions from politicians can be tough. Channel 4 News presents the top 10 ‘doorstep’ interviews from Political Correspondent Michael Crick, a master of the art.
It began the year as a relatively quiet issue. Then along came the Ukip surge, a shock European election and two Conservative defections. Here we look back at the last 12 months of immigration.
Gary Gibbon
I understand word has gone out to Mrs Gove to stop hitting the tweet button after a series of messages blurted out on Wednesday. They threatened to undermine the coordinated Gove/Cameron operation to minimise his pain at the reshuffle. They may have been triggered by the late realisation in the Gove household that the office of…
David Cameron’s reshuffle exposes a lack of legal experience in the upper ranks of government – not to mention a growing pool of unhappy men in their 50s on the backbenches.
Gary Gibbon
Men are still overly represented in the post-reshuffle government – but that’s not what it feels like to some grumbling Tory males around Westminster.
Gary Gibbon
Kenneth Clarke’s “retirement” from in the latest reshuffle will not have been voluntary. Meanwhile, Mr Cameron is likely to honour a pledge to give women a third of government jobs.
New pictures emerge showing the happy teenager who, only around a year later, would become a militant Islamic extremist.
If EU leaders back Jean-Claude Juncker for the post of European Commission president it would be “flicking two fingers” at voters across the continent, Iain Duncan Smith says.
Meriam Ibrahim’s lawyer tells Channel 4 News that reports she is to be freed are “absurd” and untrue, as political leaders call on the Sudanese government to lift her death sentence.
The Conservative party has been caught removing a decade of speeches from the internet, but thanks to the British Library’s archives we bring you the statements they may prefer were forgotten.
The Russians hit some nerves this week when dismissing Britain at the G20 summit as “a small island no one pays any attention to”. But did they have a point?
As the government unveils new rules on lobbying, David Cameron denies he was lobbied on tobacco policy by his party election strategist Lynton Crosby.
Jon Snow
Sixty-eight years ago today America detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb at its Trinity testing site in New Mexico. Today the most intriguing aspect of the nuclear debate is that it is so low-key.