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.
MPs have backed the latest lockdown measures for England.
MPs have voted to approve England’s new lockdown laws.
Boris Johnson has promised daily updates on the vaccination programme from next week.
The prime minister is expected to set out strict new lockdown measures for England, as the government raised the Covid-19 alert to five, the highest setting – warning that health services are in imminent danger of becoming overwhelmed. With latest figures showing hospital admissions in England are now at a record high, parliament is being…
More countries have imposed travel restrictions on arrivals from the UK to protect themselves against the new variant of the coronavirus.
Boris Johnson and the European Commision chief Ursula von der Leyen have been speaking by phone tonight to “discuss the state of play in the Brexit negotiations”.
Keep it small, keep it short and keep it local – that’s the message on Christmas from the UK government’s chief medical officer as Boris Johnson urged people to exercise “extreme caution” about meeting up with relatives or friends. The easing of strict coronavirus rules will still go ahead over the festive period, after Mr…
Our political editor Gary Gibbon joins us from Westminster.
Some MEPs are now questioning whether there’s enough time left for the European Parliament to ratify a deal.
Boris Johnson has warned that no-deal Brexit is now a “strong possibility”.
UK prime minister Boris Johnson in Brussels for post-Brexit deal talks with EU chief Ursula von der Leyen
Boris Johnson will travel to Brussels tomorrow for direct talks with the European Commission president, Ursula Von der Leyen.
“The conditions for finalising an agreement are not there” – that’s the conclusion of the latest high-level phone call between Boris Johnson and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen.
Survey suggests the Conservatives are struggling to hold on to the support they won in 2019.
Boris Johnson has told MPs that the country needs to “hold our nerve” for a few more months, before coronavirus vaccines are deployed.