Gary Gibbon
Corbyn’s critics waiting for the olive branch
Jeremy Corbyn is talking about extending an olive branch to his defeated MPs but his opponents say they haven’t seen it yet.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
General election 2015: David Cameron pumps it up
David Cameron has done another very psyched up outing to convince anyone who doubted it that he is desperately keen to carry on in the job.
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Gary Gibbon
David Cameron profile: Gary Gibbon speaks to the Conservative leader
If he did get back in, what sort of David Cameron would we see? The long gone husky-cuddling eco-warrior won’t make a reappearance presumably.
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Gary Gibbon
Is Labour’s ethnic minority vote holding up?
All is not stable in every part of Labour’s ethnic minority vote, and it may suffer from a failure to act on this – if not at this election, then at the next.
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Gary Gibbon
Sir Malcolm Rifkind resigns: why he decided to stand down
The key moment in Sir Malcolm Rifkind’s change of heart was the meeting with the chief whip on Monday.
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Gary Gibbon
Hung parliament predictions harden, coalition recedes
The odds of a coalition after 2015 recede in your mind the more you chat around Westminster. It’s not impossible. But it’s not a hot favourite either.
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Gary Gibbon
Clegg attacks ‘un-British’ grievance politics
Nick Clegg revealed that George Osborne, when he refused to implement a bigger tax threshold leap in the 2012 budget, said: “I don’t want to deliver a Lib Dem budget.”
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Gary Gibbon
Clegg on Iraq, coalitions and Gove
The coalition position on Iraq as outlined by Nick Clegg at his press conference this morning might strike you as less than heroic.
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Gary Gibbon
Operation ‘get up Tory noses’
First it was Norman Baker serving under Theresa May at the Home Office. Now Simon Hughes has been offered a job in the Justice Department that he just couldn’t refuse.
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Gary Gibbon
Tory MPs claim veto over future coalition
Talk to Tory MPs now and you would think they will never vote for coalition again. Talk to people close to the PM and they say “that could all change if they’re staring at five years in opposition as the alternative”.
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Gary Gibbon
Press charter wobble and pause
New rules on making sure newspapers keep to certain standards should be a done deal stamped by the Privy Council, but the big players are staying away.
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Faisal Islam
2012/13: lowest year for official UK housebuilding since the 1920s
135,117 – the next time you hear a politician, any politician, talk about the cost of living, think about this number. Why? Because it marks the lowest point in UK house-building in nearly 100 years.
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Gary Gibbon
Cameron: everything’s on the up but job’s not done
The Tories wanted to monster Labour’s “Blue Peter economics” and proclaim themselves the party of aspiration and business – two mantles party strategists felt Labour abandoned last week.
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Gary Gibbon
Nick Clegg: coalition forever
Nick Clegg’s fundamental message was that coalition could and should be here for good. He described it as “now accepted as the norm.” No other options are viable for the Lib Dems.
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Jon Snow
Nuclear policy: hypocrisy and inevitability?
Sixty-eight years ago today America detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb at its Trinity testing site in New Mexico. Today the most intriguing aspect of the nuclear debate is that it is so low-key.