Gary Gibbon
How will Westminster react to Scotland’s majority SNP Government?
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon asks how Westminster might deal with the SNP’s new majority Government at Holyrood.
-
Scottish budget includes supermarket levy
A public sector pay freeze, a new levy on large alcohol and cigarette retailers and a commitment not to raise council tax for five years, are the headlines from this year’s Scottish budget.
-
Salmond sets out Scottish government’s programme
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond lays out the SNP government’s new programme at Holyrood.
-
Alex Salmond criticises ‘damaging’ oil tax
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond is urging Chancellor George Osborne to reconsider the “smash and grab” raid on North Sea oil revenues during meetings at the Treasury.
-
Is British TV failing Scotland?
I’d forgotten how English the British media is. Having started my career in BBC Scotland it used to be something I was quite aware of.
-
Gary Gibbon
-
Faisal Islam
The coming fiscal punchup between Scotland and the UK Treasury
Faisal Islam on the upcoming fiscal punch-up as the SNP wins the Scottish elections.
-
Gary Gibbon
A dire night for Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on a dire night for Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems.
-
A stunning result in Scotland
Perhaps the Arab Spring has gone to my head but it seemed a little strange not to see either crowds or tanks on the streets of Edinburgh as I drove in from the airport this morning.
-
Gary Gibbon
The SNP is smiling while coalition relations cool
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on Scottish success for the SNP and the inevitable tensions in the Coalition following the AV vote.
-
SNP wins majority in Scottish elections
Alex Salmond says “Team Scotland has won” as the SNP takes control of the Scottish Parliament. It is a result Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy, in Edinburgh, describes as “seismic”.
-
Alex Salmond’s SNP makes big gains in Scottish elections
The Scottish National Party has made big gains in elections north of the border. One political expert tells Channel 4 News the Scottish Labour party has suffered a “devastating defeat”.
-
Gary Gibbon
PMQs: Independence, referendums and the fastest milkman in the West
Our Political Editor says PMQs revealed something of David Cameron’s musical tastes – as well as a dilemma for the SNP over an independence referendum.
-
Are the 2012 Olympics bad for Scotland, as SNP claims?
SNP make a number of claims about how the 2012 Olympics are detrimental to the Scottish economy.
-
Gary Gibbon
Salmond was not the only one pushing for a Scottish referendum
Two Cabinet ministers made a modest push within government to have a referendum on Scottish independence on the same day as the general election – but have accepted they won’t ge their way.
-
Gary Gibbon
Does Scottish poll vindicate Brown’s silence on Megrahi?
The first Scottish opinion poll shows 42% of voters approve of Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill’s decision to let Mr al-Megrahi go home.
