Gary Gibbon
Jeremy Corbyn’s first PMQs: for many viewers, change will play well
For a first outing, in which you are trying to catch people’s attention and advertise a new politics, it probably worked on its own terms.
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FactCheck Q&A: should Britain pay for its role in the slave trade?
Caribbean campaigners want Britain and other European countries to pay for the historic crimes of the transatlantic slave trade.
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Syria tops agenda as Putin attends UN summit
Syria will dominate a meeting of the UN general assembly in New York, with Russia pressing other countries to unite against Islamic State.
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FactCheck: where are the missing 6,000 Lib Dems?
Shoring up the party faithful, Tim Farron, new Lib Dem leader, promised that “20,000 new members had joined” since May. FactCheck’s been trying to find them.
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David Cameron pledges £100m for Syria refugee camps
David Cameron says Britain will commit another £100m to supporting refugees in camps bordering Syria.
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David Cameron: Lord Ashcroft makes debauchery claims in book
David Cameron has been accused of debauched behaviour involving a dead pig during an initiation ceremony for a dining club at Oxford University.
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Gary Gibbon
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Syria air strikes: would government win vote?
The government is prepared to take military action in Syria if it can win a majority in the Commons, but with the Labour leadership frontrunner and SNP sceptical, victory is not assured.
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Europe’s migration crisis: what we know so far
Is this really the biggest refugee crisis since 1945? What are the facts behind the headlines?
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Aylan Kurdi: images that changed UK views on refugees?
The heart-breaking images of a Syrian toddler lying dead on a Turkish beach have reverberated around the world, but will they lead to a change in British attitudes towards the refugee crisis?
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Gary Gibbon
Syria refugee crisis: Cameron resists calls for UK to take more asylum seekers
David Cameron has signalled he’s not about to join any Europe-wide resettlement programme for refugees. He isn’t about to risk inflaming domestic opinion by adding to Britain’s population growth.
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Gary Gibbon
Labour leadership debate: a ‘relaxed and confident’ Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn takes steps that would massively solidify his position as leader and protect him against any coup attempts.
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Michael Crick
Cameron ‘personally ordered’ payments to Kids Company
Former Michael Gove adviser Dominic Cummings tells Channel 4 News that David Dameron overruled Mr Gove and officials more than once to order continued funding of Kids Company.
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David Cameron warns migrant crisis will last all summer
Britain to send sniffer dogs and more fencing to Calais as the prime minister says disruption could last throughout the summer
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Michael Crick
Government attacked for ‘rigging’ of electoral system
The Conservatives have been criticised for a change in voting law that could see hundreds of thousands of people drop off the electoral roll.
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Gary Gibbon
SNP foxhunting move a raiding party into English lawmaking
The government has pulled the vote on foxhunting after the SNP’s decision to break its own pledge and vote against the relaxation of the ban in England.
