Gary Gibbon
How big is the opinion poll lead?
Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon reports from the Conservative Spring Conference.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Get your diaries for what could be the key election dates
Get your diaries ready – Gary Gibbon blogs on what could be the key dates of the forthcoming general election.
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Jon Snow
Has politics been turned on its head?
Has politics been turned on its head, with Labour now the party of “big business”, blogs Jon Snow.
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Gary Gibbon
Meetings add intrigue to the Labour plot
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon reveals what happened in the hours between the publication of Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt’s letter and senior Cabinet figures making their first statements.
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Gary Gibbon
Brown challenge: awaiting Darling, Harman and Straw
Brown leadership challenge: would Geoff Hoon really fire off just one shot without choreographing a second one, blogs Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
Looming election brings Labour together
Channel 4 News political correspondent Gary Gibbon reveals how Lord Mandelson is showing unity with his labour colleagues with a general election imminent.
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Jon Snow
Snowblog's back: I have a good feeling about 2010
Jon Snow looks forward to 2010 and the changes a general election, Iran, China and the next steps for a climate change deal.
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Gary Gibbon
What happens if the election result isn’t clean cut?
Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon explores the possibility that the 2010 general election could create a hung parliament.
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Gary Gibbon
The TV debates that will change all future election campaigns
Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon explains how the major political parties came to an agreement over televised debates involving their leaders.
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Jon Snow
Have I just witnessed the death of party politics?
Have I just witnessed the death of party politics? If so the general election could be dull, blogs Jon Snow for Channel 4 News.
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Gary Gibbon
Labour hope for Australia repeat
Gordon Brown’s team has been scouring the globe for precedents for the electoral bounceback now required. They think they’ve found one in Australia. In the 2001 General Election there, conservative (Liberal) prime minister John Howard was trying to win a third term, flat on his back at 30 per cent of the poll at the…
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Faisal Islam
Electionomics II: promoting short-term growth
Amid the chaos, it appears Team Brown are clinging on to one hope: the economy. As the prime minister himself has just said: “People are beginning to see the difference… there are already some instances of the economy showing results.” There’s some irony here. In a previous abortive attempt at blogging I posted about electionomics…
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Jon Snow
A spectacle we have never seen before
A political crisis This is a political spectacle none of us has ever seen before. The government is reshuffling itself. Hazel Blears has just shuffled herself out of the Cabinet. She’d have been fired anyway over her second homery and non-payment of capital gains tax. Two other ministers, one of them another woman, are expected…