Gary Gibbon
Tories and the ethnic community vote
How have the Tories done in wooing the ethnic minority vote? Political Editor Gary Gibbon heads to Wolverhampton to find out.
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Gary Gibbon
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Michael Crick
Archer, Ashcroft, Coulson – now Lynton Crosby. Notice a pattern?
Tory leaders have repeatedly failed to conduct proper due diligence when hiring people they think will turn the party’s fortunes around.
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Gary Gibbon
Gay marriage: Tories split down the middle?
Amid predictions that Tories will be “ripping bits” out of each other during today’s gay marriage debate, how concerned should David Cameron be about possible political fallout?
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Gary Gibbon
Ashcroft anger turns on official as Tories snub meeting
I am in a select committee looking into Lord Ashcroft. No Tory MPs have turned up.
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How many non-dom peers?
Is Lord Paul right to say there could be 100 non-doms in the House of Lords?
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Gary Gibbon
Hague v Harman: watch out for Lord Ashcroft references
Harriet Harman, standing in for Gordon Brown in the Commons today, will no doubt be invoking the name of Lord Ashcroft at some point, writes political editor Gary Gibbon.
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How big were Lord Ashcroft’s donations?
Conservative frontbencher Michael Gove played down Ashcroft’s role in funding the party, saying he was not their biggest donor. Is he right?
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Jon Snow
What Ashcroft says of state of House of Lords
One subject that guarantees a yawn amongst the chattering classes, and that is more or less anything to do with the House of Lords.
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Gary Gibbon
Ashcroft is a bigger story than the Tories might like
Lord Ashcroft has today admitted that at the moment he’s a non-dom paying no taxation here on his non-UK earnings even as he tries to win the election for the Conservative party.
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Gary Gibbon
Cable describes Ashcroft as a ‘non-dom’ at PMQs, but where’s the evidence?
UPDATED: Now with video. Vince Cable referred to Lord Ashcroft as a “non-dom” in (deputy) Prime Minister’s Question Time, but he did it in a kind of aside. He didn’t wave around documentary evidence of the allegation. Harriet Harman didn’t quite get it right when describing the requirements that the Lords Appointments Commission put on…
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Gary Gibbon
‘Lord Ashcroft is a non-dom’, Lib Dems to allege in parliament
The Liberal Democrats plan to use PMQs (and parliamentary privilege) to allege that a leak from HMRC suggests that Lord Ashcroft, the Tory donor has non-dom status for tax purposes.
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Gary Gibbon
ConservativeHome and Lord Ashcroft
It’s intriguing to see ConservativeHome, the grassroots Tory website, is now part-owned by Lord Ashcroft, Conservative Party Deputy Chairman.