Gary Gibbon on Politics

May 4, 2012 1:50 pm 5 Comments

Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon analyses the local election results.

May 2, 2012 8:50 pm 9 Comments

Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on what the local elections will mean for the Lib Dem's existential trajectory.

May 1, 2012 5:57 pm 3 Comments

In the light of the hacking report, Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the last time a non-MP was summoned to the Commons accused of contempt of parliament

12:44 pm 4 Comments

Damning report from the media select committee on the Murdoch empire, but four Tory MPs didn't sign up to the criticism of Rupert Murdoch - a Lib Dem and the five Labour members did. That diminishes the power of the report somewhat, blogs Gary Gibbon.

April 30, 2012 7:59 pm 6 Comments

By design or accident, David Cameron's anger was fully on display today. He went for the indignant mode - Flashman on a high horse without medication.

1:48 pm 8 Comments

The prime minister couldn't have been clearer, repeating on the Marr programme yesterday that he saw the Leveson inquiry as the right place for Jeremy Hunt's immediate future to be decided.

April 29, 2012 11:37 am 3 Comments

"You know things are bad when the PM has to come out mentioning this level of serious misdemeanour in order to try to clear the air."

April 26, 2012 12:48 pm 5 Comments

A more snappish Rupert Murdoch in evidence at Leveson today. The man who said yesterday that anyone in public life was fair game for media attention today complains about being harrassed by snappers and reporters when he left his home beside Rebekah Brooks last year.

April 25, 2012 3:09 pm 17 Comments

Jeremy Hunt's immediate chances of survival are looking a bit better than I would've guessed this morning.

1:52 pm 1 Comment

All in all though, it was the documents put on-line that fired up yesterday's session and triggered the furore around Jeremy Hunt's position. Today looks like being different. The documents Rupert Murdoch refers to in his written statement don't look like they are seismic. The action, for now, is back in Westminster, even if the anthropological interest is at the high court.