Gary Gibbon
David Miliband assures Labour ‘I’ll be fine’
Defeated Labour leader contender David Miliband addresses the party conference.
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LIVE BLOG: Ed Miliband’s speech
Join the debate as Ed Miliband delivers his first speech as Labour leader – the biggest speech of his political career.
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Ed Miliband: time for Labour’s new generation
Labour’s new leader, Ed Miliband, pledges to lead a “new generation” which will “relish” the chance to take on David Cameron. Political editor Gary Gibbon says the speech did not sink – or fly.
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Ed Miliband prepares for party speech
As Ed Miliband prepares for the biggest speech of his political career one communications expert tells Channel 4 News the new leader needs to reach out beyond the conference walls.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Milibands insist there is ‘no psychodrama’
New Labour leader Ed Miliband says there is “no psychodrama” between him and his brother David who is to decided whether or not to join the shadow cabinet.
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Gary Gibbon
What now for David Miliband?
David Miliband is still keeping everyone guessing about where he sees his future. The money is on him coming back but keeping an eye out for an high-powered international job, writes Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
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Labour leadership: how a contest works
Unions, the PLP or the electoral college? Channel 4 News looks at how the process of electing a Labour leader works and the candidates likely to benefit from the system.
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Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown asks for a role at Labour leadership unveiling
Gary Gibbon blogs on how Gordon Brown has asked to say some words to the Labour party conference in Manchester before the result of his successor is announced.
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Tone of Labour leadership debate set by Tony
The candidates for the Labour leadership outlined their vision for the party during last night’s Channel 4 News hustings, but Peter McHugh notes that the debate’s biggest player was not in the studio.
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Gary Gibbon
Labour leadership candidates ‘fired up’
TV hustings on Channel 4 News just now. The first one not conducted by the strict rules that governed all the other ones. So you get a lot of inter-change.
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Faisal Islam
Labour leadership: Walking with deficit deniers
The Chancellor recently derided the Labour leadership candidates as ‘deficit-deniers’, an opinion with which Tony Blair appears to concur. The final chapter of his new book does place him closer to the Coalition Treasury than the economic policies outlined to date by the candidates. Ahead of our Labour leadership hustings on the economy, it’s worth…
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Gary Gibbon
Blair book: the aftermath
How will Gordon Brown retaliate? And when? I understand he has been talking to friends today telling them not to retaliate right now. Gary Gibbon blogs.
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Tony Blair endorses David Miliband, nearly
As the Labour Party gets ready to choose its next leader, Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports on former prime minister Tony Blair’s heaviest hint yet that he backs David Miliband for the top job.
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Gary Gibbon
Wrong Ed in Labour leadership battle
Gary Gibbon blogs on a misunderstanding for Stephen Pound in the Labour leadership vote
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Gary Gibbon
Why Tony Blair’s book matters for Labour’s leadership vote
Gary Gibbon blogs on how the launch of Tony Blair’s book ‘A Journey’ could impact on the Labour leadership contest.
