Blog posts tagged "Conservative"

April 19, 2012 12:58 pm No Comments

Theresa May has just tried to make the best of a bad job in the Commons, dragged back to answer questions about a new deportation process she launched on Tuesday only to see it stuck on the dockyard slips.

March 28, 2012 4:44 pm 1 Comment

Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon on the saga over the contract for Joint Strike Fighter jets

March 1, 2012 4:30 pm 6 Comments

Boris Johnson tells Gary Gibbon that he will never run for Westminster - or for the party leadership - and that being London Mayor is the best job in politics.

January 10, 2012 6:01 pm 17 Comments

Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the government's thoughts on a referendum on Scottish independence

November 29, 2011 7:39 pm 2 Comments

The coalition has effectively already started shading in the cash envelope but there is, on current numbers, £24bn still to colour in. The significance of that? Enormous.

November 17, 2011 1:14 pm 2 Comments

Could it be George Osborne is still flicking his tail after his plans at the G20 for an IMF safety net to give markets confidence were torpedoed and the French and Germans upped their demands for a financial transaction tax?

October 4, 2011 5:04 pm 8 Comments

The hall at the Tory party conference isn't exactly packed for a speech on the NHS, writes Gary Gibbon - who is also keeping one ear out for the latest on "catgate".

October 3, 2011 11:49 am 7 Comments

Political Editor Gary Gibbon writes on Chancellor George Osborne's council tax freeze and one joke you may not hear at David Cameron's leader speech tomorrow...

September 21, 2011 4:49 pm 6 Comments

For years, the Lib Dem leader's speech was a longed for moment of coverage. Now, in government, Nick Clegg gets saturation coverage all year round. So this speech, like the whole conference, was more of an internal party conversation than usual. Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports.

September 5, 2011 12:30 pm 6 Comments

As Parliament returns after the recess, one 2010 intake Tory MP tells Gary Gibbon he is thinking of getting a bulk order of blue nose-pegs to wear as he voted for measures he loathed but which Lib Dem coalition partners had secured in negotiations.