Blog posts tagged "election"

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 6, 2011 1:16 pm 3 Comments

Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on a dire night for Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems.

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Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on Scottish success for the SNP and the inevitable tensions in the Coalition following the AV vote.

May 12, 2010 1:39 pm 13 Comments

Iain Duncan Smith is the new work and pensions secretary. A huge thrill to the Tory right, though in truth they don’t always like what he recommends. Some of it costs serious money as well! Will there be any around? One mystery solved. The PM sees the prospective ministers first then they see the deputy [...]

May 8, 2010 3:42 pm 27 Comments

Bit coals to Newcastle this it might seem! Fair Votes Now campaigners are besieging the Lib Dem meeting in Transport House. I didn’t think it could get more bizarre after the arrivals had to criss-cross Morris Dancers on the way in. But amongst the demonstrators, which includes Greens, Marxists and others – found Lib Dems [...]

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More strange framing from the worst photographer in the universe but I thought it poignant that the Lib Dems are holding their internal talks on power-sharing in Transport House, long the home of the Labour party which the Lib Dems were hoping to displace in this election.

May 5, 2010 4:53 pm 4 Comments

Can Gordon Brown get the sort of late surge he needs? What are the precedents? Folk sometimes talk about a late surge in 1992 that saved John Major but the text books tell us that was actually more of a case of the polls misreading things throughout the election. February 1970 does seem to have [...]

April 21, 2010 12:44 pm 20 Comments

Interesting tactics from the Tories – vote Lib Dem get the IMF was the message from Ken Clarke and George Osborne at their London press conference just now. In a word association would you say that reeks of “old politics” or “change?” As one shadow cabinet member put it to me, if the message from [...]

April 15, 2010 9:21 pm 1 Comment

On crime, it’s come to life a bit. Gordon Brown told three jokes (well, quips) – very Commons style ones, a dig at the Tory posters of his face and the “airbrushed” ones of DC and a go at DC saying: “It’s not Question Time it’s answer time.” Really did sound a lot – too [...]

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In the spin room…though I gather there are plans to confect “real spin” rooms where the hacks can talk to the politicos away from the cameras. This was supposed to be all about an “unmediated” dialogue with the British people but you get the impression that Messers Alexander, Coulson, Ashdown etc are here to do [...]