Gary Gibbon , Political Editor
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.
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Liz Truss defiant in conference speech attacking ‘anti-growth’ critics
At the end of a fractious, bumpy and ill-disciplined conference Liz Truss tried to banish the U-turns and pull the party together with a brief speech about one main idea – “growth, growth and growth.”
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Liz Truss on tax cut U-turn and interest rates
Our political editor Gary Gibbon sits down with Prime Minister Liz Truss
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Liz Truss tries to curb Cabinet squabbling amid backbench ‘coup’
The spectre of cuts loomed large at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham today – with cabinet ministers openly disagreeing.
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24m
Chancellor Kwarteng to reverse his planned tax cut for richest in UK
The Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng said ditching the 45p tax rate for the highest earners had become too much of a distraction.
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Can Tories be rallied behind the government’s economic policies?
Today the prime minister admitted she ‘should have laid the ground better’.
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Poll predicts 100-seat Labour majority at next general election
The day’s events have heaped yet more pressure on the government.
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8m
How sterling crisis is impacting those looking for a mortgage
Sir Keir Starmer has declared it a “Labour moment” – telling his party it’s time for them to end twelve years of Conservative rule.
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Pound crashes to all-time low against US dollar
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng was today forced to quell growing market unease over his low-tax, high borrowing strategy with a promise to set out more details in November, along with independent costings.
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Government announces biggest tax cuts in 50 years
Don’t call it a budget – but it is the biggest budget intervention we’ve seen in decades, largely at odds with what twelve years of Conservative Chancellors have told us.
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18m
Queen Elizabeth II Funeral: royal family say final goodbye
The day of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral has been one of majesty and remembrance.
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Queen’s funeral: Service at Westminster Abbey for Queen Elizabeth II
It has been a day filled with ceremony and spectacle, but also heavy with emotion here in central London.
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5m
How the Queen became the master of small talk
Throughout her 70 year reign the Queen met with thousands of people from all walks of life, either at her residences or on her travels around the world and the UK.
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How the Queen’s soft power projected Britain around the world
The Commons Speaker is understood to have refused a request to allow a Chinese delegation to attend the Queen’s lying in state.
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Public pay respects as royal procession brings Queen’s coffin to Westminster
The Queen is now lying in state in Westminster and members of the public are queuing for miles to pay their respects.
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Queen Elizabeth II’s complicated history with the island of Ireland
Northern Ireland’s political problems meant there was no First Minister to greet the new King on his visit to Belfast. But it wasn’t so long ago that the Northern Ireland “Troubles” would have meant the visit itself was nearly unthinkable. In the 1970s and 80s the Queen managed just one, heavily-guarded, visit. The peace and…
