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Post election plots and operations
As the main party leaders lick their wounds after the local elections, should each of them be watching their backs?
As the main party leaders lick their wounds after the local elections, should each of them be watching their backs?
A new poll from Lord Ashcroft puts the wind up the Conservatives, predicting Labour are doing well enough in key marginal seats to win outright in the general election. But can that be right?
The Conservative have lost control of 11 local councils so far in the local elections – with the councils either being taken by Labour or reverting to no overall control.
The local election results produce Ukip successes in Tory Essex and Labour Rotherham, while Labour is the big winner in London. The Liberal Democrats, meanwhile, lose control in Portsmouth.
Nigel Farage rules the roost in the soundbite stakes with his “Ukip fox” dominating local election coverage. Channel 4 News pits party leaders against him to ask: whose message is getting through?
Has the housing boom only benefited the rich while the poor get poorer? David Cameron insists he can fix the economy and deal with migration.
From making pigs happy to making bankers sad – ten reasons why, whatever you think about the European Union, you should be voting in the elections on Thursday.
Watching Ed Miliband’s brutal embarrassment on breakfast TV is a painful business. Listening to his later Radio Wiltshire outing is toe-curling.
David Cameron is acutely aware of the toxicity of the Tory brand in Scotland. While Nigel Farage is looking tanned – yet tired – after his remarks about Romanians last week.
David Cameron pledges to “take more steps” to speed up the deportation of people who pose a threat to Britain following the US conviction of Abu Hamza on terror charges.
Culture Secretary Sajid Javid says immigrants to the UK need to learn to speak English to “respect our way of life”, as posturing over immigration intensifies ahead of the European elections.
Prime Minister David Cameron rejects calls for singer Gary Barlow to hand back his OBE over claims the pop star invested in a tax avoidance scheme.
Michael Gove is an “ideologically obsessed zealot” who pushed through £400m of cuts to funding for extra school places to help plug a financial black hole in the free schools project, it is claimed.
David Cameron has said the Greens should take part in a leaders’ debate if Ukip are represented. Could this be a smart strategic move?
The general election is exactly a year away and predicting a winner has never been harder. Channel 4 News looks at three banana skins that could change everything.