Labour brings out the big guns for its first press conference
Gordon Brown is in a relatively calm mood at the first Labour press conference of the general election.
Gordon Brown is in a relatively calm mood at the first Labour press conference of the general election.
Faisal Islam blogs on the stance of Labour, Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to cutting the UK’s £167bn national debt.
Channel 4’s political editor Gary Gibbon is not sure about Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s election pledges “in an era of collapsed trust”.
Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon blogs on how the budget shows Labour’s strategy for neutralising Conservative attacks on the economy.
I found the whole experience of being cast off into towns we never visit to talk to people we rarely meet somewhat like going on a foreign trip, writes Jon Snow.
What the £178bn deficit looks like from the ground – Jon Snow visits Luton and finds a town of contrasts, from gin and tonics on the bowling green to some of the most dispossessed housing estates imaginable.
Jon Snow blogs about his the first of his series of ‘Changing Britain’ – tonight he visits Hull.
Faisal Islam blogs on what he hopes will be asked in the Chancellors’ debate, which will be broadcast on Channel 4 on Monday 29th March.
Gary Gibbon blogs on how Gordon Brown has revealed the date of the budget in a key note speech, and set out what are likely to be Labour’s election themes on the economy.
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.
A blog from the launch of new Conservative posters at Battersea Power Station.
The team around Gordon Brown has closed the door on any idea of a John Major-style long election campaign, before the 6 May election.
Who comes away with most egg on their face after a figure like that? The economy may have grown 0.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2009. But does it make Gordon Brown look a bit premature in announcing the country’s out of recession? This figure is preliminary and could be revised downwards. Or…
Faisal Islam blogs on the difference to the election battle the end of the recession could make.