Leadership, unions and fees – Ed Miliband’s fight back?
Not very disciplined,” was how one Shadow Cabinet member close to Ed Miliband described Ed Balls’ touting of Yvette Cooper as a future Labour leader – Political Editor Gary Gibbon writes
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As Ed Miliband rejects criticism of his leadership of the Labour party, Channel 4 News looks at how he is faring 16 months into the job.
Ed Miliband hits back at critics of his leadership, insisting that he relishes the fight to restore public confidence in Labour and has a “very clear plan” for the party.
As England find out who they will face in Euro 2012 football commentator John Anderson writes for Channel 4 News about what lies ahead for Fabio Capello and his team.
Six Met officers with the Enfield crime squad have been found guilty of misconduct for using excessive force, having deployed baseball bats and a pickaxe handle to stop and detain a suspect.
A sports agent is accused of abusing the trust of the former Pakistani Test cricket captain during a match-fixing trial in London.
England centre Manu Tuilagi is fined £3,000 after jumping from a ferry in Auckland, adding to England’s controversy on their return home following defeat.
Channel 4 News learns union bosses are calling for a campaign of civil disobedience and sit-ins as well as strikes over the spending cuts, with one leader saying he is “prepared to go to jail”.
The Labour peer credited with inventing the “Blue Labour” concept, Lord Maurice Glasman, reveals another side to Ed Miliband in an interview with Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
Not very disciplined,” was how one Shadow Cabinet member close to Ed Miliband described Ed Balls’ touting of Yvette Cooper as a future Labour leader – Political Editor Gary Gibbon writes
These reforms are momentous, and quite elegant – in theory. The lesson of a decade or two of banking dominance in Britain’s political economy is that they will get their way in watering down the detail of this proposal, particularly in the many years it will take for legislation and enforcement
Christine Lagarde is quite some diplomat. So Madame Lagarde has not quite been saying what Ed Balls has been saying she has been saying. But nor is she giving the ringing endorsement received from this organisation as recently as June.
The head of the International Monetary Fund warns that Britain must be ready to respond to the sluggish global recovery.
Chancellor George Osborne admits that the economic recovery will be “choppy”, but says he is sticking by his plans for deficit reduction despite evidence of a slowdown.
A 20-year-old woman from Dublin with cystic fibrosis makes medical history after coming through a complex double lung transplant.
A cache of documents showing Gordon Brown and Tony Blair bitterly haggling over control of No 10 have been leaked. In one letter, Mr Brown labels Mr Blair as “shallow”.