Channel 4 News Political Editor gives his take on the latest news and gossip from the corridors of power in Westminster and beyond.
Gary Gibbon has been Channel 4 News Political Editor since 2005. He gives his take on the latest news and gossip from the corridors of power in Westminster and beyond.
Gary has worked on four general elections for Channel 4 News. His interview with Peter Mandelson in 2001 triggered the Northern Ireland Secretary's second resignation from the Cabinet.
In 2006, he won the Royal Television Society Home News Award with Jon Snow for the scoop on the Attorney General's Legal Advice on Iraq. Gary also revealed details of Blair's pre-War meeting with George Bush n 2008 and won the Political Studies Association Broadcast Journalist of the Year award.
Downing Street has insisted that the Prime Minister would welcome a visit by Mr Trump to the UK, after Sir Keir Starmer described him as a “steadfast supporter” of the special relationship.
Sir Keir Starmer has said Britain and America will continue standing “shoulder to shoulder” after Trump’s election win.
University tuition fees in England are going up for the first time in eight years. From April, the government says they will rise by 3.1%, in line with inflation, to £9,535 a year – accompanied by an equivalent rise in maintenance loans. It’s good news for universities, who’ve been calling for a rise to stop…
After announcing the biggest increases in tax and spending for decades, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Sir Keir Starmer have been explaining how the extra money will help the NHS.
The Labour government’s first budget certainly had an element of shock and awe, with the sheer scale of the numbers.
The Prime Minister has warned of a “long and difficult path” to change Britain, using a speech in Birmingham to prepare the ground for a string of tax hikes to come in Wednesday’s budget.
Commonwealth leaders gathering for their heads of government meeting in Samoa have called on the Prime Minister to begin discussions on compensation for Britain’s historic role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Donald Trump has lodged a complaint after his team picked up a social media post by the Labour party appealing for volunteers to travel to America to help the Democrat campaign.
Only yesterday Conservative MPs put James Cleverly in first place in the third round of the Tory leadership contest, but today they knocked him out of the race.
Conservative MPs have knocked Tom Tugendhat out of the party leadership race. The former Home Secretary James Cleverly is now in the lead, having overtaken his rivals Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch.
Sir Keir Starmer’s new team has started work in Downing Street after yesterday’s sudden departure of his chief of staff Sue Gray. A cabinet minister admitted that the senior civil servant had become a “lightning conductor for criticism” of the Government.
The Prime Minister has paid back more than six thousand pounds for gifts he’s received since taking office – in a bid to curb the row over accepting freebies.
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has told the Tory party conference they would have done much better in the election if she had still been Conservative leader.
Rishi Sunak has been addressing Conservative Party members in a short speech on the first day of the Tory conference in Birmingham.
Sir Keir Starmer will set out his approach to the crisis in Lebanon and other conflicts around the world when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York later.