Gary Gibbon
Boris: I’ll never run for Parliament again
Boris Johnson tells Gary Gibbon that he will never run for Westminster – or for the party leadership – and that being London Mayor is the best job in politics.
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Whitehall’s revolving doors – FactCheck Q&A
Dave Hartnett used to be top taxman but is now to work with Deloitte. Who does he follow? FactCheck gets behind the revolving doors of Whitehall.
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Gary Gibbon
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FactCheck: The biggest porkies of 2011
The biggest political porkies of 2011: Channel 4 News’ FactCheck team run through the dodgiest politics claims of the year.
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Gary Gibbon
Tory MP: ‘We need blue nose-pegs’
As Parliament returns after the recess, one 2010 intake Tory MP tells Gary Gibbon he is thinking of getting a bulk order of blue nose-pegs to wear as he voted for measures he loathed but which Lib Dem coalition partners had secured in negotiations.
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FactCheck: Casting an Eye over Westminster’s jailbirds
As another politician hears the clang of the prison gates, FactCheck looks at the Palace of Westminster’s soaring crime rate.
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FactCheck: Who really ‘won’ the local elections in England?
The claim “We got more votes than Labour. You wouldn’t believe it listening to Ed Miliband, but actually they were defeated in the local elections, which is pretty staggering for an opposition.” George Osborne, 08 May 2011 The background Almost everyone except Nick Clegg is claiming that Thursday’s local election results were good news. The…
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FactCheck: Is Cameron filling the Lords with Coalition cronies?
The claim “These appointments would create an even bigger majority for the Coalition in the Lords and risk reducing its role to a mere rubber stamp for the House of Commons.” Ed Miliband MP, in a letter to David Cameron, November 19, 2010
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Bringing competition – and the EU – into the NHS
When Ed Miliband challenged David Cameron over the NHS and EU competition policy in the Commons, it wasn’t just the PM who was confused. But did the Opposition leader have a point? FactCheck investigates.
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'Violence inevitable at tuition fees protest'
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson looks at how violence erupted at the student demonstration against tuition fees on 9 December 2010.
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Jon Snow
Tweet revenge: Off with her head!
Hard to believe, but the fact that the perfectly turned out Samantha Cameron was not wearing a hat whilst sitting demurely in the public gallery of the House of Lords represented a major parliamentary moment.
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The greatest political shake-up since 1832?
Nick Clegg promises the biggest shake-up of democracy since the 1832 Great Reform Act – but are his proposals really that radical?
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Leaders’ debate: policing, education, immigration & cancer rates
FactCheck looks at a variety of claims from last night’s leaders’ debate
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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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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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Jon Snow
End of term and more
Bye Bye to my member, and a word to Chris, Joe10 and Ken on yesterday’s class war blog. That’s it, they’ve gone! Eighty two days now before we see another MP in the House of Commons chamber on October 12th. And in what a parlous state they seem to be leaving British politics. Tomorrow, The…