A leading public health doctor tells Channel 4 News that private sector “sharks are circling around the NHS” hoping to make profits from the government’s health reforms.
In his address to the Conservative Party conference, Chancellor George Osborne returns to his theme of unity in the face of international economic adversity – but rules out early tax cuts.
Stock markets around the world drop as indebted Greece says it will miss its deficit reduction target.
As a Channel 4 News poll reveals voters think David Cameron is as right-wing as Ed Miliband is left-wing, YouGov’s Peter Kellner writes on the importance of being centrist.
As inspectors arrive in Greece to discuss bailing out the country’s economy, the president of the European Commission says the EU is facing the biggest challenge in its history.
Share prices increase as a 3tr euro package is proposed to save the single currency from collapse. Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports from Greece.
As finance ministers discuss the economic and financial crisis, former chancellor Alistair Darling tells Channel 4 News leadership is needed to avert another recession.
Gary Gibbon
For years, the Lib Dem leader’s speech was a longed for moment of coverage. Now, in government, Nick Clegg gets saturation coverage all year round. So this speech, like the whole conference, was more of an internal party conversation than usual. Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports.
Latest updates, pictures and video from the Liberal Democrat autumn conference in Birmingham.
In his closing speech to the Lib Dem conference, Nick Clegg will explain why he supports plans for the economy. Former leader Paddy Ashdown tells Channel 4 News he will focus on “fairness”.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg tells his party conference governing is “not doing the easy thing, but doing the right thing”. Top Lib Dems tell Channel 4 News their leader had to be “realistic”.
Channel 4 News speaks to some of the “ones to watch” in the Liberal Democrat party at their annual conference, about nastiness, Barack Obama and tuition fees.
Gary Gibbon
Liberal Democrat President Tim Farron tells Channel 4 Political Editor Gary Gibbon he regrets saying his party was destined for a divorce from the Conservatives.
It’s a bullish claim for a party with miserable poll rates. But the Lib Dems are insistent: things are on the up. “At least they flipping well better had be,” says Tim Farron. Is their Deputy Leader telling them the whole story? FactCheck tots up the stats.
“Mr Huhne said the average consumer would be ‘better off’ by the end of the decade…that’s a claim that immediately set alarm bells ringing at FactCheck Towers.