Gary Gibbon
Tories look to increase majority with DUP deal
The Conservatives and DUP are looking into an arrangement that could increase the Tories’ working majority.
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Can anyone save the Conservative Party from oblivion?
Can the next Conservative leader haul the party back from brink – and who should that be? Cathy Newman asks former Deputy PM Therese Coffey and former Education Secretary Gillian Keegan.
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FactCheck: Theresa May’s claim about housing doesn’t give the full picture
Theresa May spoke about house building at the Conservative conference. But the figures she used don’t give the full picture.
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Gary Gibbon
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FactCheck: David Cameron’s conference speech
David Cameron makes his keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference. Does he pass the FactCheck test?
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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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FactCheck: Tory conference round-up
Only a politician could make a missed target sound like a triumph, as FactCheck discovers.
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Gary Gibbon
Tory conference: eye-popping Osborne
George Osborne is trying to set out some new fiscal rules which he hopes Labour will struggle to match.
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Gary Gibbon
Tory conference: workfare and pacts
George Osborne is selling a massive extension of workfare as a way to “help (the long-term unemployed) into work.” But is that what the projects tried so far prove and do they save the state money?
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FactCheck: Has Cameron hit the million mark?
The number of temps and part-timers who said they had been forced to take work of that nature after failing to find permanent or full-time work have all risen significantly.
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Gary Gibbon
Tories: sweeties, swings and shyness
Tories are cheering themselves up with the thought that Labour’s entire poll lead could be wiped out if they could work on the doubts some Labour sympathisers have about Labour.
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Gary Gibbon
Economy fragile yet Cameron seeks mantle of optimism
Despite the economic situation Prime Minister David Cameron seeks the mantle of optimism in his speech to the Conservative Party Conference reports Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
How regressive is a council tax freeze?
Political Editor Gary Gibbon writes on Chancellor George Osborne’s council tax freeze and one joke you may not hear at David Cameron’s leader speech tomorrow…
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Jon Snow
Reflections on Birmingham
Jon Snow reflects on the Conservative Party Conference – and its host city
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Gary Gibbon
Scrapping child benefit for higher rate taxpayers
Well the distant views of the sunlit uplands promised at this Conference probably don’t look so sunny for the higher rate taxpayers right now. And they will be pondering how their loss of Child Benefit in one drastic swoop through the breakfast interviews this morning by George Osborne could be but the beginning. This is…