Gary Gibbon
Cameron needs to order more wine and crisps
David Cameron is acutely aware of a growing sense among Conservative backbenchers that they have been marginalised by the coalition with the Liberal Democrats, blogs Gary Gibbon.
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Have the Lib Dems kept their promises?
Ten months after they formed the Coalition, the Liberal Democrats list their big achievements. FactCheck takes them to task.
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Gary Gibbon
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Barnsley by-election: Labour win, Lib Dems sixth
Labour win the by-election in Barnsley Central, one of the party’s safest seats. But the Liberal Democrats slide to sixth place behind UKIP, the British National Party and a local independent.
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Gay couples to be husbands and wives – officially
In a rare coalition victory for the Liberal Democrats, gay couples are to be allowed to get married in church under new proposals to be set out by ministers.
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Channel 4 News poll: students desert Lib Dems over fees
Students turn against the Liberal Democrats and embrace Labour as opposition mounts to the Coalition Government’s plan to treble university tuition fees.
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FactCheck: students turn against the Lib Dems
FactCheck analyses how important the student vote is to the Liberal Democrats
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Lib Dems plan mass abstention on tuition fees vote
The Liberal Democrats plan a mass abstention on the Commons tuition fees vote, writes our Political Editor, Gary Gibbon – but it could all still fall apart.
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Lib Dems plan mass abstention on tuition fees vote
The Liberal Democrats plan a mass abstention on the Commons tuition fees vote, writes our Political Editor, Gary Gibbon – but it could all still fall apart.
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Coalition cracks appear over housing benefits cuts
Simon Hughes, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, signals cracks in the coalition as he tells Channel 4 News housing benefit cuts will not get through parliament.
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PledgeCheck: the Coalition cuts to their election pledges
FactCheck looks at a few of the pledges the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have dropped in the name of coalition and cost cutting.
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Gary Gibbon
Lib Dem tuition fees rebellion – or not
Gary Gibbon learns the Liberal Democrats do not expect a rebellion by 30 MPs over university reform, despite NUS claims that they are lining up to protest.
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Gary Gibbon
Vince’s message to Nick
Vince Cable issues a warning to Nick Clegg – if he were leading the Liberal Democrats, he would handle things differently.
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Nick Clegg defends deal with Tories
Nick Clegg defends his deal with the Conservatives telling the Liberal Democrats that the coalition will “govern well for the next five years”. Political Editor Gary Gibbon analyses the reaction.
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How safe is the winter fuel allowance?
Cathy Newman analyses how the Conservative right wing and the Liberal Democrats are teaming up to demand a review into the winter fuel allowance.
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Gary Gibbon
Coalition cartoons – harmless fun for the Lib Dems?
In the last few weeks I was struck by the number of Liberal Democrats in parliament who spontaneously brought up in conversation how worried they were about the images that the cartoonists were embedding in the public consciousness, writes political editor Gary Gibbon.
