They say a stressful holiday can test the sturdiest of marriages. And so it is with the coalition’s odd betrothal. In their mission to wrap India’s booming economy and Britain’s need to export more into two mutually stabilising coils of DNA, yet more internal debate has been fomented, this time over skilled migration. Vince Cable…
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon reports from Vince Cable’s lecture to vice-chancellors at London South Bank University.
Gary Gibbon
Vince Cable wil point towards a graduate tax in a speech tomorrow, while Iain Duncan Smith is having a touch time at the DWP, blogs Gary Gibbon.
Gary Gibbon
Business Secretary Vince Cable decided the Lib Dems needed Simon Hughes as deputy leader and that it was healthier and better for the party’s soul in the challenges ahead.
Jon Snow
I was stopped at the lights at the top of the Haymarket in Piccadilly Circus. My head was down over my handlebars. Then there they were at my left shoulder. Two stubbled chins, two shiny bald heads, two men in their late thirties astride two bicycles. Two brown identical twins in shorts, T-shirts, and trainers…
I do have serious questions about one massive U-turn from Messrs Clegg and Cable – their adoption of the Conservative plan for £6bn of in-year cuts, writes economics editor Faisal Islam.
On the first full day of the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat government, Faisal Islam blogs that this is a hugely important 24 hours for economic policy.
As Ken Clarke hints at a Cabinet position for Vince Cable and a possible deferrment of the Tories plans to cut the deficit, Faisal Islam asks: is this the shape of the Con-Lib alliance?
Gary Gibbon
Rather like the men with the tape measures who lay out the cutlery and glasses at state banquets the Lib Dems seem to have a staffer who makes sure that Vince Cable’s lectern is a critical two inches behind Nick Clegg’s. The leader’s been taking shots at “greedy bankers” this morning. He’s getting asked what…
If the election was a prize for fiscal candour, the Liberal Democrats might actually win, blogs Faisal Islam.
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon blogs on the Liberal Democrat manifesto launch and how questions still remain about the figures behind the party’s tax plans.
Is Lib Dem Treasury Spokesman Vince Cable’s reputation as the voice of economic sanity really deserved? FactCheck takes a look.
About five minutes after Channel 4’s Ask the Chancellors debate had ended, Britain’s first ever “spin room” was invaded by a phalanx of sharp-suited Conservatives, blogs Faisal Islam.
FactCheck looks at a range of statements from the “Ask the Chancellors” debate on Channel 4
Gary Gibbon
Gary Gibbon blogs from the Ask the Chancellors debate