Gary Gibbon
Byrne: letter was a joke
Liam Byrne on the letter he left to his successor, saying there is no money left.
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FactCheck Q&A: can Ed Miliband be prime minister?
Ed Miliband says he won’t do a deal with the SNP. Does that he won’t be the next Prime Minister? No.
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Get used to more coalitions. Just don’t blame it on AV…
David Cameron thinks landslide elections like the one that brought Tony Blair to power might become a thing of the past under the Alternative Vote system. Is he right?
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Deal due out ‘any minute’
Gary Gibbon blogs on how a Tory-Lib Dem deal is due out “any minute”
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Gary Gibbon
Cameron expected to go to the Palace tonight
A covert peak at Nick Clegg’s negotiating notes will give little cheer to Labour.
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Gary Gibbon
Lib Dems to consult on Tory coalition deal
The Liberal Democrats’ federal executive and the MPs are to meet at 7.30pm to discuss the coalition deal negotiated with the Conservatives.
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Gary Gibbon
Burnham speaks out against a rainbow coalition
Andy Burnham, like David Blunkett, John Reid and Tom Harris, has spoken out against a Labour and Liberal Democrat coalition.
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Gary Gibbon
Game on for a Lib Dem-Tory coalition
The Tory shadow cabinet member who told me at 9am it was all over for Con-Libbery now acknowledges it would appear to be game very much back on.
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Gary Gibbon
Are the Tories ‘stuffed’?
The fact that one well-known Tory shadow cabinet member thinks the party is “stuffed” gives you some idea about trust levels and optimism among Conservatives, blogs Gary Gibbn.
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Gary Gibbon
Mixed smoke signals at Westminster
Gary Gibbon blogs on the latest developments on a day of talks at Westminster.
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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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Jon Snow
A pig flying down Whitehall?
We are in a time of omens in which we search for routes through the voters’ wisdom in refusing to trust any party to deliver us from the evil of deficits, writes Jon Snow.
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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