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
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Election 2015: too late to talk foreign policy?
Until today two words have been missing from the general election 2015 campaigning: foreign policy.
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Lord Mandelson on business, Ed Miliband and David Cameron
Business leaders should not fear Labour, former cabinet minister Lord Mandelson has told Channel 4 News.
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Gary Gibbon
Cameron, Clegg and Farage: watch Gary Gibbon’s profiles
With the general election just over two weeks away and the result highly unpredictable, Gary Gibbon talks to three of the party leaders.
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Michael Crick
Politicians should follow John Major’s example and get a soapbox
John Major, who speaks in the West Midlands today, energised his 1992 election campaign by speaking from a soapbox. It’s the sort of thing modern-day politicians should try.
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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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Cathy Newman
Will Milimania end the way Cleggmania did?
Labour spinners frantically retweeting the hen party selfies (#Ed #henparty #adorable #lovely) should remember what happened to Cleggmania in the privacy of the ballot box.
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Gary Gibbon
David Cameron attacks SNP on The Andrew Marr Show
The main thrust of Mr Cameron’s interview was an attack on the SNP. Andrew Marr said the PM was beginning to sound like an English Nationalist, which went down pretty badly.
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Alex Thomson
A clubby, chummy, synthetic encounter with Cameron
What is billed as ‘life on the campaign trail’ is actually an antiseptic exercise in keeping our party leaders away from real voters.
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FactCheck Q&A: the Tories’ right to buy plan
The Conservatives want to sell off the most valuable council houses to extend the right to buy to housing association tenants. Do the numbers add up?
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Victoria Macdonald
Few surprises on health in today’s Conservative manifesto
Apart from a pledge to fight dementia, most of the health measures had already been trailed. But then, the 2010 manifesto only hinted at the size of the NHS reorganisation that followed.
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Gary Gibbon
Conservative manifesto: sober, but with some cross-dressing
The Tories wanted to play what they see as their good management card at today’s manifesto launch. But their plans still contain some smoke and mirrors.
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Michael Gove: Tories’ ‘win-win-win’ policy on housing
On the day the Conservatives launch their manifesto, the Tory chief whip tells Channel 4 News that money from council house sales will be used to build more homes and transform brownfield land.
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Michael Crick
Cameron biographers at war
The problem for all three authors and their publishers is this: if Cameron loses the election will anyone care about him that much?
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David Cameron heckled on first on-camera campaign walkabout
David Cameron is accosted during his first on-camera walkabout of the election campaign, by a man with a ukulele who tells him – in somewhat colourful language – to go “back to Eton”.
