Gary Gibbon
How will Westminster react to Scotland’s majority SNP Government?
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon asks how Westminster might deal with the SNP’s new majority Government at Holyrood.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Tory backbenchers ‘spoiling for a fight’ with Lib Dem partners
The easter sunshine has not calmed the coalition animosity between the Tory backbenchers and Liberal Democrats as the AV quandry draws nearer
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Jon Snow
How the Big Society finds itself in the cuts front line
Jon Snow blogs on how and why the cuts are hitting the voluntary sector the hardest.
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Gary Gibbon
‘No smoking gun’ in Lockerbie report
Gary Gibbon looks at Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell’s report on the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi
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Gary Gibbon
Control orders – politically neutralised for now?
“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.
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Gary Gibbon
Vince Cable lives to fight another day in the Coalition
Vince Cable remains in the Coalition government – despite his comments that he had “declared war on Murdoch”, writes Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
Could it be the end for control orders?
Control orders – which mean suspects can be kept under virtual house arrest without any trial by jury – could be scrapped by the Coalition government, writes Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
University funding: coalition propose tuition fees cap
So tomorrow we get the government’s way ahead on university funding. The fundamental to remember is that they have massively, gigantically scaled back their own cash commitment to universities. They are proposing a way to fill the enormous black hole.
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Gary Gibbon
Lib Dem MP’s Commons attack on Osborne
Lib Dem MP Bob Russell ticked Mr Osborne off for his attacks on the workshy in what looked and sounded to me like the most frontal, direct Commons attack on a Tory cabinet minister by a Lib Dem backbencher since the coalition was formed, writes political editor Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
Tories guarantee Lib Dems 5 May referendum date
Tories guarantee the Lib Dems a 5 May referendum date on voting reforms, writes Gary Gibbon.
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Jon Snow
Hague story not about sexuality
The UK is behind the United States in accepting that it does not matter at all if people in public life are gay, writes Jon Snow.
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Faisal Islam
IFS Budget analysis means it is time for transparency
‘Clearly regressive’ are two words that will be sending shivers down the spines of the Coalition ministers. For the first time the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) has completed a comprehensive analysis of who will pay for the Budget measures announced in June, known as a distributional analysis in the jargon.
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Gary Gibbon
Liberal Democrat conference will be the Nick Clegg show
Gary Gibbon blogs on how Nick Clegg is preparing to take a prominent role at next month’s Liberal Democrat conference.
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Gary Gibbon
Coalition cartoons – harmless fun for the Lib Dems?
In the last few weeks I was struck by the number of Liberal Democrats in parliament who spontaneously brought up in conversation how worried they were about the images that the cartoonists were embedding in the public consciousness, writes political editor Gary Gibbon.
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Faisal Islam
Never waste a good crisis
Faisal Islam blogs on how tomorrow’s budget will signal the beginning of the public sector recession.