Blog posts tagged "General election"

May 24, 2011 11:53 am 2 Comments

"The Cabinet Secretary, I'm told, wants to make sure that civil servants are prepared for the Lib Dems downgrading cooperation to something way short of a coalition before 2015."

May 10, 2010 10:47 am 5 Comments

Gary Gibbon blogs that one Tory MP told him his fellow MPs felt "the hand of history on our gonads", as the Conservatives and the Lib Dems aim to find a deal on joint-government

May 7, 2010 6:20 pm 10 Comments

In the wake of today's hung general election, face to face talks start tonight between the main parties. They could produce the sort of peacetime coalition it would normally take years to germinate, blogs Gary Gibbon

9:03 am 5 Comments

Gary Gibbon asks Lord Mandelson how long he thought Labour had to explore the possibilities of hanging on - he said a weekend felt about right, based on the precedent of February 1974.

6:39 am 2 Comments

Gary Gibbon blogs on how David Cameron looks set to move into Downing Street, but how he won't be in as strong a position as he would have wanted.

May 3, 2010 10:07 pm 4 Comments

With a hung parliament looming, the parties are having to consider what they will have to trim in order to be part of a minority government, blogs Gary Gibbon.

April 30, 2010 3:35 pm 32 Comments

On the day after the final leaders debate, Gary Gibbon analyses the significance of the post-debate poll results.

April 29, 2010 9:53 pm 4 Comments

As the third leaders debate nears its end, a menacing swarm of spinners is gathering, blogs Gary Gibbon.

9:39 pm 4 Comments

The third leaders debate is a better watch than the previous two, blogs Gary Gibbon

9:22 pm 1 Comment

Gordon Brown and David Cameron both have clear, two-pronged messages for the final leaders debate, blogs Gary Gibbon.