Blog posts tagged "Nick Clegg"

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.

April 19, 2012 9:38 pm 1 Comment

Channel 4 News Political Editor, Gary Gibbon, on the battle for reform of the House of Lords at the heart of the government

April 9, 2012 12:33 pm 4 Comments

Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon on the danger that faces the Coalition in its Lords reform proposals

March 8, 2012 7:19 pm No Comments

With the budget looming the coalition's top politicians are still struggling to nail down what it will include, reports Gary Gibbon.

March 5, 2012 2:05 pm No Comments

Just been to a rather surreal launch of Lembit Opik's latest book - "The Alernative View". The former MP suggests the party should dump Nick Clegg as its leader before the general election (but - a little bizarrely - keep him as DPM). The fundamental argument is that "Orange Book Liberalism" (or "muscular liberalism") is wrong-headed and the party needs to get back to its libertarian and land-taxing roots.

February 14, 2012 3:25 pm No Comments

Sounds like last night's quad meeting saw the Lib Dems - Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander - push the case for the tax threshold expected increase in this budget (£630) to be doubled (to £1200 or so).

February 3, 2012 5:05 pm 7 Comments

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

January 30, 2012 7:07 pm No Comments

Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the European summit in Brussels

January 26, 2012 6:58 pm 4 Comments

The coalition might agree with Clegg's proposals in principal, but the cost of his proposals mean that no new tax threshold targets have been agreed.