Ed Balls says he doesn’t care if it is plan A, B or C – Britain just needs a plan for growth and tells Channel 4 News he has the measures in place to fix an economy that has “flatlined”.
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls says he would use any profit from selling the state’s share in banks to pay off the national debt.
Labour is holding its annual conference in Liverpool for the first time since 1925 – and the only previous occasion was in 1905 (when officially the party was called the Labour Representation Committee). Coming here marks something of a rapprochement between the Labour Party and this great city.
University tuition fees would be capped to a maximum of £6,000 under Labour says Ed Miliband in a move designed to please party loyalists and win back the student vote.
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.
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.
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.
Business Secretary Vince Cable tells Channel 4 News global financial instability is making the world a “very dangerous place at the moment”.
Chris Huhne warns the Tory right not to be like the “madcap” US Tea Party, as a senior Lib Dem tells Channel 4 News differentiating their party from the Tories is a “theme” of the conference.
Liberal Democrat Party President Tim Farron rebuts suggestions that he wants to replace Nick Clegg as party leader in an interview with Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg tells Channel 4 News there is a “gear change” in Whitehall as the government tries to stimulate economic growth.
Vince Cable gives a downbeat assessment of the UK economy but insists he is “positively committed” to the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, as Gary Gibbon reports.
Gary Gibbon
I was told earlier by a Lib Dem MP that Nick Clegg had only quite recently crossed the Rubicon and firmly decided that he would contest a second election as leader of his party.
Danny Alexander tells Channel 4 News his plans to target the rich with a new team of tax inspectors, and help the poor by raising the income tax threshold to £12,500.