Gary Gibbon
Royal Mail sell off: Ed Miliband is back
George Osborne announces the sell-off of the last third of Royal Mail and Ed Miliband gives his first speech in nine years from the back benches.
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Gary Gibbon
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Hands free as trials of driverless cars begin
Ministers Vince Cable and Claire Perry are taken for a ride in an automated vehicle in a trial in Greenwich, south London. The other test areas are Bristol, Coventry and Milton Keynes.
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Cable: pessimism on Lib Dems ‘wildly exaggerated’
Business Secretary Vince Cable says the Lib Dem pact with the Tories “was something we had to do” for the national interest, but slams their current approach on tackling the deficit.
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Gary Gibbon
Real earnings and Labour fortunes: graph lines crossed
Just as the earnings/inflation lines crossed in the right direction for the government, the Lab/Con graph lines of support crossed in the wrong direction for Labour.
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Gary Gibbon
Lib Dems adopt grim determination… and shirt sleeves
Danny Alexander is not without ambition. Over time he has tried various tactics to convince Lib Dems that they should take him to their hearts and consider him future leadership material.
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MH17: No armed mission to crash site, says Dutch PM
The Netherlands, Australia and Malaysia rule out sending an international armed mission to secure the site in Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17 crashed, the Dutch prime minister says.
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Paul Mason
Treasury excitement after IMF thumbs-up for UK austerity
The IMF’s annual MOT on the British economy concludes that the coalition’s austerity policies are justified – which has set Treasury officials leaping around like excited pixies.
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One pub, two Lib Dems and an awkward-looking pint
In their first appearance since Vince Cable was forced to deny he was plotting to get rid of Nick Clegg, the pair appear in public a la Nigel Farage, as reporters peer in from outside.
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Gary Gibbon
Vince Cable, from Beijing, attacks friend for plotting
The Vince Cable attack on his close friend, confidant and some-time adviser Lord Oakeshott, could actually help Nick Clegg’s position.
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Gary Gibbon
Post election plots and operations
As the main party leaders lick their wounds after the local elections, should each of them be watching their backs?
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Gary Gibbon
Cable ‘keeping options open’ on Pfizer
Business Secretary Vince Cable wants stronger commitments to jobs and investment from Pfizer in its bid for AstraZeneca. But he will never secure a 100 per cent binding promise.
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Royal Mail: ‘Cautious approach cost taxpayer millions’
Taxpayers missed out on millions of pounds because of the way the government handled the sale of Royal Mail, the spending watchdog says.
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Michael Crick
If coalition relations are bad now, what will they be like when the general election comes round?
Never before do I recall a minister publicly attacking another in such stark, vituperative terms as in today’s spat between Vince Cable and James Brokenshire over immigration.
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Economy growing – but Britain not out of the woods
After years of lacklustre growth, the recovery appears to be taking off at last. Good news for Chancellor George Osborne, but even he is not celebrating yet.
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Gary Gibbon
Coalition hopes to get its kicks from minimum wage
On the minimum wage, the government is hoping to have something it will be able to point at that will allow it to say to voters that it is taking care of the less well paid.
