Gary Gibbon
With a cabinet reshuffle on the cards and calls from within the party to quit, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg faces tough decisions. Gary Gibbon reports on how he fared in front of colleagues
“That would be the ultimate irony of a saga that contains several ironies already – like appointing more unelected lords so as to reduce the size of the elected Commons.”
Tonight the Coalition is probably at it’s lowest ebb. If it wasn’t for the Olympics and the fact most MPs are on holiday, then this would be a much bigger story. There are serious tit-for-tat exchanges, and could soon be all-out war.
Relations within the coalition grew significantly worse today, with Conservative sources in Whitehall admitting defeat on the coalition’s plans for Lords reform.
Gary Gibbon
Coalition tensions are bubbling up as the Commons debates Lib Dem proposals for reform of the House of Lords, writes Gary Gibbon.
Gary Gibbon
The letter signed by 70 rebel Tory MPs is an astute and menacing piece of organisation by the rebels. It shows a breadth of support that should give succour to first-time rebels, but its primary purpose is to nail colours to the mast.
Gary Gibbon
After yesterday’s spectacle of Ed Balls and George Osborne impersonating a pair of male bull seals competing for supremacy on a South Georgia beach, the focus moves back to Lords reform and the vote on Tuesday, writes Gary Gibbon.
Gary Gibbon
Lords reform is looking shaky: a failure to get the programme motion is a breach of the working practices of the Coalition agreement, one said, and “that would mean retaliation.”, writes Gary Gibbon.
Gary Gibbon
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”.
Gary Gibbon
Will he, won’t he. Channel 4 News Politics Editor Gary Gibbon on how the wrangle for Lords reform at the heart of the coalition government threatens to bring an abrupt halt to changes at the Commons.
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon writes on what Lord Peter Hennessy calls “the Bermuda Triangle of political reform” – the House of Lords reform.
Gary Gibbon
Channel 4 News Political Editor, Gary Gibbon, on the battle for reform of the House of Lords at the heart of the government
Gary Gibbon
Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon on the danger that faces the Coalition in its Lords reform proposals