Gary Gibbon
Clashes on the economy, immigration and coalitions – but the questioners have the upper hand
Gary Gibbon blogs on the party leaders responses so far in the second leaders’ debate.
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Did Brown authorise leaflets containing ‘lies’?
The claims “David, I have not authorised any leaflets like that.” Gordon Brown, Leaders’ debate, 22 April 2010 Cathy Newman checks it out We’ve just published a FactCheck which shows that David Cameron was right that Labour’s leaflets contained “lies” – but that’s only half the story. The bigger question is this: did Gordon Brown authorise the dodgy claims? He…
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Leaflets from Labour are ‘pure & simple lies’
David Cameron accuses Gordon Brown of spreading Labour “lies” about the Conservative party in their leaflets.
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Clegg’s elderly couple who travel by bus to keep warm
The claim “I got a letter a few months ago from an elderly couple who said to me they now find it so difficult to heat their homes on cold winter days that on those cold winter days they get into a bus in their town and travel round the bus just to stay warm.”…
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Leaders’ debate II: euro chocolate, planes, jobs & immigration
Leaders’ debate analysis part II from the FactCheck team
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Leaders’ debate: ‘lying’ leaflets, bombers & that Lisbon treaty
In the first dispatch of the day from the FactCheck team we look at the “lying” leaflets claim levelled at Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg’s Trident claims and David Cameron’s pointing of fingers at the Lisbon treaty.
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Separating TV debate fact from fiction
Europe, leaflets, and chocolate… a selection of the claims we’ll be checking tomorrow from the TV leaders’ debate.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Party leaders are being tested on their policies – and forget the niceties
Gary Gibbon blogs on how Gordon brown has gone on the attack as all the party leaders change their tactics in the second leaders’ debate.
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Gary Gibbon
A leaders’ debate on foreign affairs that’s heading home
Gary Gibbon nlogs on how the foreign affairs leaders’ debate is mutating into something different from its original rules.
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Gary Gibbon
First thoughts on second leaders’ debate
Gary Gibbon blogs on the opening exchanges of the second leaders debate
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Faisal Islam
Guessing the GDP in the leaders debate
We knew that the deficit was massive. Today we got confirmation that last year Britain borrowed a peacetime record, just below 11 per cent of national income. It is a mammoth sum, the sort of fiscal carnage only normally wrought by worldwide war. The news today, however, was that last year’s deficit ended up slightly…
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Will Nick Clegg foreign policy be his political weakness?
A week ago, not many people outside the Liberal Democrats were taking Nick Clegg’s foreign policy seriously. But a week is a long time in politics, so I have been trying to get the measure of what Mr Clegg might say tonight. Perhaps the best clue is the speech Clegg gave to Chatham House…
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Foreign affairs leaders' debate
A perusal of the manifestos suggests that during Thursday’s debate on foreign policy and defence, Gordon Brown won’t be saying “I agree with Nick” very often. The phrase “I agree with David” may not pass Mr Brown’s lips but – with the exception of policy on Europe – the two bigger parties have more in…
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Police on the streets 80% of the time?
When Gordon Brown said – during the leaders debate – that police now spend 80% of their time on the streets was he right?
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Leaders’ debate: policing, education, immigration & cancer rates
FactCheck looks at a variety of claims from last night’s leaders’ debate