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Gary Gibbon
On Theresa May’s election victory tour, Channel 4 News’ Anja Popp asked her: “Are you tempted to call a snap general election Prime Minister?” Theresa May laughed and said: “No I think we’ll just enjoy this …” before her ad-lib drifted off. One pro-Remain Conservative told me last night’s results were “a bit of a disaster for our…
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May has appointed a new member to the Brexit Cabinet Committee just two days before what could be one of its most decisive meetings.
Gary Gibbon
Well it wasn’t really worth the drum roll build-up. As reshuffles go this has not been transformatory. There’s more still to come tomorrow with middle and junior ranks outside the Cabinet, but Theresa may has not felt able to shift big irritants from senior jobs and, as I write, has yet to announce any Cabinet sackings.…
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May comes into this summit deeply disappointed at the EU’s lack of haste in talks and its stubborn refusal to move on from discussing exit terms to trade talks. But imagine this. Theresa May is sitting in the dinner tonight and when her moment comes to address the other EU leaders makes a compelling…
Gary Gibbon
This afternoon’s reported spat on the Tory MPs’ WhatsApp group tells you so much about the abysmal state of relations in the Party. There appears to be an attempt to start what looks to some like a bit of a witch-hunt for names on the Grant Shapps list. One MP is accusing Remainers of being behind the Shapps plot. Another MP…
Gary Gibbon
Boris Johnson’s Telegraph article is clearly the speech he had hoped to give about now but was told by a No 10 emissary he should not. Instead he has burst on to the scene in print, albeit unhelpfully behind a paywall and on a day when the threat level has been raised and eyes are…
Jon Snow
Award-winning Channel 4 News journalist and presenter Jon Snow delivers the prestigious James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at Edinburgh International Television Festival.
Parliament has published its register of MPs’ financial interests for the first time since the election. An analysis by FactCheck shows that 123 MPs earn extra money by renting out homes and private property. Landlord MPs account for almost a fifth of all MPs. Their properties include houses, flats, farms, holiday cottages and shops. The MPs include chancellor…
361 days ago, Britain went to the ballot box to decide whether we should be the first member state to leave the European Union. 52 per cent of those that turned up chose to leave. Today is the first official day of divorce proceedings, after 44 years of rocky marriage. And like any break-up, it’ll…
Gary Gibbon
The prize of being first through the door has been grabbed in full knowledge that the rest of the world is waiting and measuring before even trying to march to President Trump’s side. Some countries, indeed, think the UK is acting with indecent and rather desperate haste to cosy up to the new US President.
Gary Gibbon
Brexit changed the dynamics of this argument for some ministers. You have to look mad keen for business opportunities, you can’t afford to play into a narrative that Britain is turning inwards.
Gary Gibbon
“Control” is a clever word to have on your supporters’ lips when the opposition are trying to label you as the “risk” choice. It balances or neutralises the risk. The question is whether the risk was just too much for some people.
Gary Gibbon
At the heart of David Cameron’s argument today was that just about everyone you can think of amongst the world’s big institutions, friendly allies and top economic institutions is arguing on his side.
Gary Gibbon, Channel 4 News’ political editor, and our reporters have been up and down the country following the referendum campaign. Voters go to the polls on June 23.
Does Britain’s membership of the EU makes us less safe? That’s what Leave campaigners Iain Duncan Smith and Boris Johnson have suggested, among others. Mr Duncan Smith said last month that a Paris-style attack is more likely to happen here if the UK votes to Remain in the EU. And Boris Johnson wrote in a…