Blog posts tagged "Liberal Democrats"

May 8, 2012 2:58 pm 5 Comments

Will he, won't he. Channel 4 News Politics Editor Gary Gibbon on how the wrangle for Lords reform at the heart of the coalition government threatens to bring an abrupt halt to changes at the Commons.

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.

March 19, 2012 1:55 pm 7 Comments

Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on David Cameron's proposals for greater private sector involvement in Britain's roads

March 6, 2012 4:49 pm 1 Comment

Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the Chancellor's Budget options - will he scrap the 50p tax rate and make changes to his plans to scrap child benefit for 40p taxpayers?

February 3, 2012 5:05 pm 7 Comments

Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the rise of Ed Davey

11:29 am 2 Comments

Chris Huhne's resignation as Energy Secretary following criminal charges offers an opportunity for Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to bring in fresh faces - and stalwart supporters - into the Cabinet

September 20, 2011 5:22 pm 2 Comments

Liberal Democrat President Tim Farron tells Channel 4 Political Editor Gary Gibbon he regrets saying his party was destined for a divorce from the Conservatives.

September 18, 2011 3:19 pm 2 Comments

I was told earlier by a Lib Dem MP that Nick Clegg had only quite recently crossed the Rubicon and firmly decided that he would contest a second election as leader of his party.

September 5, 2011 6:44 pm 2 Comments

I hear that Olly Grender, who was a speech writer for Paddy Ashdown back in 1980s is to join the Deputy Prime Minister’s team in Whitehall. Olly Grender will be Nick Clegg‘s press supremo while Lena Pietsch is on maternity leave. Olly Grender was head of communications at the Liberal Democrats from 1990 to 1995 [...]

June 7, 2011 6:31 pm 3 Comments

"Even if this is the beginning of the end of the parliamentary row, David Cameron needs to win over support in the medical profession (the BMA called his speech 'a step in the right direction')."