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More uni places than ever?
David Willetts claims there are more people at university than ever before. Cathy Newman investigates.
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Labour leadership ‘soap opera’ as ballot opens
Ed Balls accuses supporters of the Miliband brothers of turning the Labour leadership contest into a two-horse race, focusing on the “soap opera” of sibling rivalry. Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports.
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Gary Gibbon
Gove goes on the attack over school building row
Gary Gibbon blogs on how Michael Gove’s allies are convinced there is a mole in the education department as the row continues over mistakes in the cancellation of the Building Schools for the Future project.
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Free schools funding U-turn
Michael Gove said he’d pay for his Swedish-style “free schools” with cash from the Building Schools for the Future programme – but today that was ruled out. Channel 4 News FactCheck investigates.
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Labour race: Abbott steals show as Milibands do battle
As David Miliband fights his brother Ed, Political Editor Gary Gibbon explains the story behind the rivalry and how the first female black candidate could throw a spanner in the voting arithmetic.
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Labour contest: brotherly love or ‘narrowest gene pool’?
Political analyst Peter McHugh examines the contenders in a Labour leadership race described by Diane Abbott as containing “the narrowest gene pool in history”.
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Gary Gibbon
Labour targets tactical votes
Will tactical votes in Labour-Conservative constituencies help Labour in the way they did in past elections?
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Can the Tories gain ‘safe’ Labour seats?
The Tories are now targetting an extra 20 Labour seats after worries that they won’t win as many Lib Dem seats because of Clegg-mania – but are these “safe” Labour seats winnable?
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Will the Tories really make teachers redundant?
Labour’s Ed Balls says the Conservatives would make thousands of teachers, teaching assistants and support staff redundant, but is he right? FactCheck finds out.
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Did Balls get his sums right on schools budget cuts?
Ed Balls says that Conservative efficiency savings will mean a cut of £1.7bn from the schools budget, but is he right? FactCheck finds out.
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Balls’ statistical failing on free school meals
Is Ed Balls right to say Michael Gove is using misleading statistics on the number of free school meals pupils who go to Oxbridge?
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Gary Gibbon
Balls on the attempted leadership coup
(UPDATED: now with video of Ed Balls interview.) To the QE2 centre in Westminster where Gordon Brown sat on a platform flanked by Ed Balls and Peter Mandelson, a lecturn either side of them. I thought the PM might be about to chair a debate between the two consorts, but alas not. It was an international education conference (which…
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Jon Snow
Shall we tell the president?
Last week’s failed plot to oust Gordon Brown as Labour leader may be the consequence of the fact that Cabinet control over the prime minister has all but collapsed, blogs Jon Snow.
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Faisal Islam
Happy Days for beleaguered Brown could mean a March poll
On the day Gordon Brown appears to have headed off a leadership challenge, Faisal Islam predicts that a batch of good economic statistics could mean a 25 March general electioni
