Gary Gibbon
What lies behind Clegg’s wealth tax
What’s Nick Clegg up to floating the idea of a temporary wealth tax of some kind? Political Editor Gary Gibbon investigates.
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Gary Gibbon
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FactCheck: Tim Yeo’s flight claims head for emergency landing
Once a vocal environmentalist, Tim Yeo MP now thinks we could cover the whole of Surrey with runways and get away with the same carbon footprint. Whether we’d want to is another matter.
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Clegg says Tories broke Lords reform agreement
Nick Clegg accuses the Conservatives of breaching the coalition agreement on Lords reform and says Lib Dems will not back boundary changes in the Commons as a result.
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Michael Crick
Party accounts show extent of Lib Dem membership slump
Accounts for the political parties published today by the Electoral Commission show a fall in membership for the Liberal Democrats. But Michael Crick writes that Labour has little to cheer about either.
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HSBC money laundering – what did Lord Green know?
Lord Stephen Green, the UK trade minister who ran HSBC when the bank facilitated criminal money laundering, faces calls to reveal what he knew and when.
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Michael Crick
Lib Dems ditch elections to Lords
‘The Liberal Democrats have long had a quirky system where every couple of years members at their annual conference elect a panel of names for the party’s future peerages.’
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Gary Gibbon
Lords debate hots up as Tories attack Clegg
Coalition tensions are bubbling up as the Commons debates Lib Dem proposals for reform of the House of Lords, writes Gary Gibbon.
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Gary Gibbon
Bloody scenes at Battle of the Inquiry
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs about the government’s plans for a banking inquiry
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Gary Gibbon
Lib Dems worry about Clegg’s Lords push
There are quite a few Lib Dems who aren’t thrilled with the push for Lords reform. Gary Gibbon blogs on how some in the party are writing off the policy as “a lost cause”.
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Controversial Lords reform bill published
The House of Lords reform bill is published amid threats of a rebellion from Conservative MPs worried that the supremacy of the Commons could be threatened.
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Gary Gibbon
Full steam for Lords reform
Gary Gibbon blogs on the rising political tension within the three main political parties ahead of the vote on Lords reform.
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£1bn nuclear submarine contract set to be announced
A £1bn deal to build the UK’s next generation of nuclear submarines is set to be unveiled.
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David Cameron gives evidence at Leveson inquiry
David Cameron gives evidence to the Leveson inquiry into media ethics.
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Gary Gibbon
Where does the Hunt row leave the coalition?
Could the Lib Dem stance on Jeremy Hunt threaten cross-party cooperation when it comes to reform of the House of Lords?
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Labour motion on Jeremy Hunt defeated in Commons
A Labour motion accusing Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt of breaching the ministerial code during the proposed BSkyB takeover is defeated.
