Gary Gibbon
House of Lords – resignations before reform?
Channel 4 News Political Editor, Gary Gibbon, on the battle for reform of the House of Lords at the heart of the government
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UK fraudster Michael Brown extradited from Carribean
Following a four-year manhunt, the UK is awaiting the arrival of Michael Brown, the multi-millionaire fraudster and Lib Dem donor who was living in a Dominican Republic resort under a false name.
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Gary Gibbon
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FactCheck: Lib Dems’ internship deal fails the social mobility test
Earlier this month the Lib Dem HQ advertised its internship scheme for 2012 – FactCheck investigates how far it promotes “socially mobility”.
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What the 3 May elections mean for the UK
On the final deadline for registering to vote for May’s local elections, Channel 4 News looks at what is in store across the UK, as some cities vote whether to elect a mayor.
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Lib Dems threaten to ‘kill’ snoopers’ charter
Liberal Democrat president Tim Farron vows the party would “kill” proposals for increased monitoring of emails and internet use if they were not watered down.
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Party funding: what is the solution?
“Action should be taken now to end the big donor culture before another scandal does further damage” – the warning four months ago from the Committee on Standards in Public Life.
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Emergency debate on risks posed by NHS bill
Labour secures an emergency debate on the NHS bill – in a move that could further delay the passage of the legislation through parliament.
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Gary Gibbon
Ask Not For Whom The Road Tolls
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on David Cameron’s proposals for greater private sector involvement in Britain’s roads
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Options for improving Britain’s roads
As David Cameron raises the prospect of the privatisation of the roads network, Channel 4 News looks at the government’s options for improving Britain’s infrastructure.
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Lib Dem members oppose NHS reform
Liberal Democrat activists refuse to fully endorse the planned changes to the NHS in England leaving leader Nick Clegg at odds with party members.
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Nick Clegg’s ‘tycoon tax’ plans
Nick Clegg says he wants to introduce a “tycoon tax” to go after top earners who employ an “army of lawyers and accountants” to avoid paying tax.
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Gary Gibbon
‘Painful, continuing and unresolved’ – Osborne’s Budget options
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the Chancellor’s Budget options – will he scrap the 50p tax rate and make changes to his plans to scrap child benefit for 40p taxpayers?
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Coalition could scrap 50p tax rate
Business Secretary Vince Cable confirms to Channel 4 News that the Liberal Democrats are pushing for a shift in this month’s budget away from the 50p tax rate and towards a “mansion tax”.
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Gary Gibbon
Child Benefit – Osborne wants to keep it simple
A lot of pre-Budget kite-flying going on. Always a danger that you raise expectations with exercises like that and then find you can’t deliver on them. On child benefit, the Treasury seems to be looking at a number of ways of ameliorating the child benefit removal for 40 per cent tax payers. All of them look pretty expensive. The plan is to have something ready to announce in the Budget on 21 March.
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Gary Gibbon
Lembit calls for Clegg to go
Just been to a rather surreal launch of Lembit Opik’s latest book – “The Alernative View”. The former MP suggests the party should dump Nick Clegg as its leader before the general election (but – a little bizarrely – keep him as DPM). The fundamental argument is that “Orange Book Liberalism” (or “muscular liberalism”) is wrong-headed and the party needs to get back to its libertarian and land-taxing roots.
