Ed Miliband tells Nick Clegg to ‘lie low’ on AV
Ed Miliband has some advice for Nick Clegg on the alternative vote referendum, as Gary Gibbon writes.
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Six cars belonging to press photographers were vandalised and had their tyres slashed outside the home of Ryan Giggs by masked men.
Security officials have told Channel 4 News that Osama bin Laden was captured alive and shot dead by US special forces. The claims were apparently made by bin Laden’s daughter.
The start of the new tax year has been dubbed “worse-off Wednesday”. One tax expert tells Channel 4 News many families will be worse-off in 2011 but not because of these changes.
As senior Labour figures scramble to distance themselves from anti-cuts protesters involved in disorder in London this weekend, one left-winger is refusing to toe the party line.
Ed Miliband has some advice for Nick Clegg on the alternative vote referendum, as Gary Gibbon writes.
The deal between the Government and the UK’s biggest banks on lending and bonuses, dubbed ‘Project Merlin’, could be announced today, sources close to the deal tell Channel 4 News.
As the Government announces new plans to tackle anti-social behaviour, a neighbourhood watch activist tells Channel 4 News a key aim must be to break the cycle of re-offending.
Three Pakistani cricketers are to be charged with conspiring to cheat bookmakers during a Test match at Lord’s, as Carl Dinnen reports.
“David Davis not convinced by the Control Orders Lite regime. Ming Campbell is. Welcome to the strange world of coalition politics…” Gary Gibbon blogs on today’s control orders announcement.
The economic recovery of the UK suffers a blow, with a shock contraction of 0.5 per cent in the last three months of 2010. It means a double-dip recession is on the cards, says Faisal Islam.
Two Sky Sports presenters who sparked a sexism row after saying off-air that female officials “don’t know the offside rule” have been suspended from presenting duties.
Drinks all round, it seems. Labour gets its bruising economic brain Ed Balls in the Shadow Chancellor brief. He will attack relentlessly and with authority.
Our Political Editor says that Alan Johnson’s resignation involved “affairs of the heart” – but there was little love lost until recently between the two Eds now at the top of the Labour Party.
As Alan Johnson leaves – and Ed Balls arrives as the new Shadow Chancellor, what does it all mean for the Labour Party? Peter McHugh has some thoughts on the matter.
Predictions in politics are a mug’s game: defining moments, from 9/11 to the banking collapse, often come from nowhere. But caveats aside, here’s some tips for 2011, from Gaby Hinsliff.