Stirrings on the Tory backbenches
Commentators have said the prime minister’s reshuffle showed strength – but Political Editor Gary Gibbon isn’t so sure.
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Commentators have said the prime minister’s reshuffle showed strength – but Political Editor Gary Gibbon isn’t so sure.
Some will see David Cameron’s attempt to tame Ken Clarke in the reshuffle with a cabinet seat a score in the “mouse” column in the “man or mouse” debate, Gary Gibbon writes.
Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the reshuffle.
With a cabinet reshuffle on the cards and calls from within the party to quit, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg faces tough decisions. Gary Gibbon reports on how he fared in front of colleagues
The cabinet reshuffle’s hardly looking like it’ll be a curtain-raiser, Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports.
What’s Nick Clegg up to floating the idea of a temporary wealth tax of some kind? Political Editor Gary Gibbon investigates.
Gary Gibbon blogs on how Tim Yeo’s very personal attack on the Prime Minister strikes a chord with a lot of Tory MPs.
The government has just pulled the Programme Motion that was going to certain defeat, writes Gary Gibbon.
Coalition tensions are bubbling up as the Commons debates Lib Dem proposals for reform of the House of Lords, writes Gary Gibbon.
After yesterday’s spectacle of Ed Balls and George Osborne impersonating a pair of male bull seals competing for supremacy on a South Georgia beach, the focus moves back to Lords reform and the vote on Tuesday, writes Gary Gibbon.
Lords reform is looking shaky: a failure to get the programme motion is a breach of the working practices of the Coalition agreement, one said, and “that would mean retaliation.”, writes Gary Gibbon.
You might think reading George Osborne’s words suggesting Labour ministers instigated the Libor fixing or were complicit in some way, that the Chancellor is sitting on some juicy evidence. Perhaps he’s learnt something from a long-serving Treasury hand who knows where the bodies are buried? Not so, writes Gary Gibbon.
Being “physically ill” and displaying good manners, Gary Gibbon examines Bob Diamond’s performance at the Treasury Committee.
Gary Gibbon blogs on who the Treasury select committee may want to call to explain themselves.
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs about the government’s plans for a banking inquiry