Gary Gibbon
Ed Miliband, Europe and chaos
Less than a year ago, some report that Ed Miliband was ready to press the button and sign up to an in/out referendum. He was pulled back by Douglas Alexander.
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Gary Gibbon
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Michael Crick
Cameron: exclude Farage from TV debates
Include UKIP in televised debates? No thanks, David Cameron says, as Michael Crick reports.
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Michael Crick
Smaller parties thrive as voters desert the ‘big three’
Elections over the past 40 years have seen the growing willingness of voters to desert Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem – a trend which continued in yesterday’s polls.
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Jon Snow
A week: A long time in stormy US politics
“This week we have seen several different ‘Candidate Romneys.’ One makes wholesale assaults on Obama’s record; the next talks of bi-partisanship and how only he can bring America together.”
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Gary Gibbon
Ed M, Blairites and sofa hopping
“He was asked what in practical terms his promise to heal the north-south divide actually meant. He didn’t really know.”
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Gary Gibbon
Labour’s economic policy – here’s the tofu
“In answer to the ‘where’s the beef?’ call from some parts of the Labour Party, the leadership is serving up some sort of tofu substitute.”
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Gary Gibbon
How, and when, does the Coalition end?
“The Cabinet Secretary, I’m told, wants to make sure that civil servants are prepared for the Lib Dems downgrading cooperation to something way short of a coalition before 2015.”
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Gary Gibbon
Perhaps an outline deal today
Gary Gibbon blogs that one Tory MP told him his fellow MPs felt “the hand of history on our gonads”, as the Conservatives and the Lib Dems aim to find a deal on joint-government
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Faisal Islam
Is this the shape of the Con-Lib alliance?
As Ken Clarke hints at a Cabinet position for Vince Cable and a possible deferrment of the Tories plans to cut the deficit, Faisal Islam asks: is this the shape of the Con-Lib alliance?
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Gary Gibbon
A rare peacetime coalition – or a minority Tory government?
In the wake of today’s hung general election, face to face talks start tonight between the main parties. They could produce the sort of peacetime coalition it would normally take years to germinate, blogs Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Mandelson: a weekend to thrash out a deal
Gary Gibbon asks Lord Mandelson how long he thought Labour had to explore the possibilities of hanging on – he said a weekend felt about right, based on the precedent of February 1974.
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Jon Snow
What next after last night's election results?
Jon Snow blogs on his first thoughts about last night’s general election result
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Gary Gibbon
Cameron heads for Downing Street – but his position could be relatively weak
Gary Gibbon blogs on how David Cameron looks set to move into Downing Street, but how he won’t be in as strong a position as he would have wanted.
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Jon Snow
How you've created a vibrant campaign
Jon Snow blogs on how contributors to his Snowblog have helped create a vibrant election campaign.
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Faisal Islam
German lessons for the British parties
Faisal Islam blogs on the lessons from Germany that the political parties could learn from