Gary Gibbon
Cameron: threat levels to Jewish community & police
Prime Minister David Cameron confirms that raising the threat level for the Jewish community would mean stepping up police patrols.
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Gary Gibbon
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Cathy Newman
Why Labour should be worried by the rise of the Greens
When the Greens lambast “austerity and welfare cuts” and bang on about “privatisation of essential services”, it’s traditional Labour voters who may well be sitting up and listening.
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Green Party membership surges past LibDems and Ukip
As the row over the general election debates puts it in the political spotlight, the Green Party gains more than 2,000 new members in the last day alone, overtaking both Ukip and LibDems.
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Are TV debates a distraction from politics?
Conservative MP, Mark Field, tells Channel 4 News that half of his colleagues think the BBC are biased against his party. Lib Dem MP, Lorely Burt, says she agrees with Nigel Farage on TV debates.
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Geoff White
A cut-out-and-keep guide to snooping in the digital age
After the Paris attacks, Britain’s spy bosses want more power to snoop. But what exactly would that involve? This may help.
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Predicting the election: an impossible job?
Political pundits are struggling to read a radically reshaped voter landscape, as the two-party system appears to be heading for its final demise. So who has the edge on general election prediction?
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FactCheck: what we learned in 2014
Who were the heroes and villains of 2014 for Channel 4 News’s award-winning FactCheck blog?
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FactCheck: which party will cut the deepest?
Ed Balls says voters have a “big choice” between rival economic strategies. But how much clear blue water really lies between the parties’ plans?
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Michael Crick
Thorpe dilemma for Liberal Democrats
Norman Scott, whom Jeremy Thorpe was accused of trying to murder, warns Thorpe’s funeral will be an occasion for political bigwigs to gloss over the extraordinary events of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Gary Gibbon
‘A third or a quarter’ of cuts still to come. Really?
Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander reckons a third or a quarter of cuts are still to come after the election. The Institute for Fiscal Studies says 50 per cent. Who is right?
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Is Labour NHS ‘election fox’ dead and buried?
Chris Leslie MP says the George Osborne’s £2bn NHS pledge for extra NHS funding is “smoke and mirrors.” “We need to raise real revenue over a consistent period of time.”
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Thornberry row: do too many tweets really make a t***?
Labour MP Emily Thornberry is not the first politician to drop herself in it on Twitter. Countless others have also been forced to repent after unburdening themselves on social media.
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Norman Baker quits with a swipe at Theresa May
The Liberal Democrat home office minister Normal Baker resigns, complaining that working under the home secretary was like “walking through mud”.
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Michael Crick
Labour’s by-election – but all three main parties are in despair
Labour has won the South Yorkshire crime commissioner by-election – but all three main parties are gloomy about their general election prospects.
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Gary Gibbon
Farage invited to TV debate
Deep down, the Tories worry Nigel Farage would sweep up support as he did in the Clegg/Farage debates in the European election.
