Gary Gibbon
Boris: I’ll never run for Parliament again
Boris Johnson tells Gary Gibbon that he will never run for Westminster – or for the party leadership – and that being London Mayor is the best job in politics.
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FactCheck: Can Boris Johnson deliver on his election promises?
“The actual cash saving this year is nothing like £445. It’s £3.10, barely enough to buy you a pint of beer in a central London pub.”
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Has Boris Johnson won Londoners’ hearts?
He banned bendy buses but brought in Boris’s bikes – as London prepares for the mayoral vote, Channel 4 News assesses the achievements of the incumbent, affectionately known as BoJo.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
London mayoral hustings: ‘Groundhog Day’
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon on the first hustings of the London Mayoral campaign
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FactCheck: Ken v Boris (round three)
“We’re happy to provide the figures for excess journey time that include industrial action, since Ken’s team insist. They show that the measure was still significantly better on average under Boris, even though he had more strikes to contend with.”
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FactCheck: More Tube delays under Ken or Boris?
“The most dramatic difference was in lost passenger hours – a million a month more, on average, under Ken than under Boris.”
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FactCheck: Can Ken Livingstone deliver a ‘fare deal’ for London?
Is Ken Livingstone’s proposal to cut London’s transport fares without hitting services plausible? Channel 4 News’ Factcheck investigates.
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Gary Gibbon
NHS reforms threatened again – will Lords revolt?
NHS reforms may yet face further opposition in the House of Lords, reports Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Boris at the ’22 and Falklands ‘stunt’ fears
Gary Gibbon blogs on Boris Johnson’s appearance before the 1922 Committee and the Westminster fears of an Argentine stunt over the Falkland Islands.
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Boris and Dave issue rival economic plans
There were two speeches by two top Tories with two very different agendas earlier, writes Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman.
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Michael Crick
Ministers failing to figure out new Stats Watchdog
Boris Johnson today called Sir Michael Scholar, the Chairman of the UK Statistics Authority, a “Labour stooge”. Last month Scholar, who runs the government’s watchdog on the integrity of official statistics, accused the Mayor of London of giving misleading figures to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee. Poor Sir Michael. He would actually…
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Gary Gibbon
Banks, business and Boris Johnson at the Conservative conference
Banks, businesses and planting metaphorical trees are on the agenda at the Conservative Party Conference. Oh and Boris Johnson being Boris – but on his best behaviour, as Political Editor Gary Gibbon writes.
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Michael Crick
Will Toby Young win his £15,000 bet?
Michael Crick asks: will London Mayor Boris Johnson fulfil Toby Young’s prediction in the latest edition of The Spectator, and become Conservative Party leader by 2018?
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FactCheck: The Met’s bombshell bill for the London riots
After the funeral of Mark Duggan today, whose death sparked the riots a month ago, it is understood that police forces from Cornwall to Northumbria will finally leave the capital – ending four weeks of unprecedented extra support for the Metropolitan Police. Will the government pay up, or will the police foot the bill? FactCheck investigates.
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FactCheck: London’s Met Police vs New York’s NYPD
Boris Johnson doesn’t want America’s Supercop swooping down on the Met Police with his hard-line “zero tolerance” policies. But how does the NYPD with it’s hard-line tactics, compare to the London’s Metropolitan poilce?
