Gary Gibbon
Tristram Hunt: Labour needs to talk to the SNP
Harriet Harman’s decision to use her acting leadership role to steer the party’s direction has been shocking and enthusing Labour MPs depending on where they are in the party.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
‘Nothing will change my mind’. Really, Mr Clegg?
With a cabinet reshuffle on the cards and calls from within the party to quit, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg faces tough decisions. Gary Gibbon reports on how he fared in front of colleagues
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Michael Crick
Jack Dromey investigated by Commons watchdog
The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner is investigating the MP Jack Dromey. Michael Crick reports on his financial relations with the union Unite.
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Has unemployment gone up or down?
David Cameron and his opponent, acting Labour leader Harriet Harman, clashed over whether unemployment had gone up or down in the Commons. FactCheck investigates who’s right.
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Gary Gibbon
Hague v Harman: watch out for Lord Ashcroft references
Harriet Harman, standing in for Gordon Brown in the Commons today, will no doubt be invoking the name of Lord Ashcroft at some point, writes political editor Gary Gibbon.
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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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Gary Gibbon
Cable describes Ashcroft as a ‘non-dom’ at PMQs, but where’s the evidence?
UPDATED: Now with video. Vince Cable referred to Lord Ashcroft as a “non-dom” in (deputy) Prime Minister’s Question Time, but he did it in a kind of aside. He didn’t wave around documentary evidence of the allegation. Harriet Harman didn’t quite get it right when describing the requirements that the Lords Appointments Commission put on…
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Gary Gibbon
MPs’ expenses: there WILL be legislation
There will be legislation to enact part of the Kelly Report on re-thinking MPs’ expenses, it was announced today.
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Gary Gibbon
Will MPs now conspire to dilute the Kelly proposals?
As the widely leaked report into MPs’ expenses is published, its author, Sir Christopher Kelly, is hopeful he can get a version of his proposed rules in place by the first day after a post-election parliament.
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Gary Gibbon
Speaker Bercow’s reforms will start at (second) home
Just back from the splendour of Speaker’s House state rooms where I’ve been interviewing John Bercow. It’s a bit like a doge’s palace in there. Speaker Bercow will be living in the less stately but pretty nice private accommodation upstairs, with his young family. There will have to be a few adaptations to the property.…
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Gary Gibbon
Today’s revelations will increase suspicion of MPs
Some MPs may be looking at the tidied up versions of their expenses published in the blacked out FOI release today and be thinking “if only …” “If only that was all the public got to see.” It is only the Telegraph’s uncensored version of the receipts that allows us to know about Margaret Moran’s…
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Jon Snow
MPs' expenses: there is much murkier gravy to come
To hear Harriet Harman (leader of the House of Commons) on Friday night, MPs think they have now put their House in order. But surely “redacted” information about how they dispose of taxpayers’ cash into their expenses claims has to be transparent?