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.
Theresa May could face another challenge to her leadership this summer if senior Conservative backbench MPs change the party’s rules at a meeting tonight.
Since the EU referendum three years ago, an obscure sounding group of Conservative MPs has shot to prominence.
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Theresa May is expected to head straight back to the House of Commons tomorrow to tell MPs what delay she’s been given.
Whilst Theresa May was in Paris and Berlin, back home in the Commons, 97 of her MPs voted against her desire for a Brexit extension and 80 Tory MPs, including 12 ministers, did not vote at all.
Theresa May will meet Angela Merkel in Berlin and Emmanuel Macron in Paris ahead of the emergency EU summit in Brussels on Wednesday.
A water leak brought the House of Commons to an early close this afternoon. But at the other end of Parliament, the House of Lords is set to sit far into the night as pro Brexit Lords attempt to hold up progress on a bill that would force the Government to delay Brexit. A cross party group of…
You honestly could not make this up. A deadlock in Parliament over a plan to break the Brexit deadlock – a vote in the Commons ending in the first tie for 26 years.
Theresa May has offered to sit down with Jeremy Corbyn to “break the logjam” over Brexit and agree a joint plan for Britain’s departure.
MPs have another chance to change the direction of Brexit tonight. They will vote in an hour’s time on four alternative options to Theresa May’s deal.
Britain’s Brexit future could be leaving the European Union in two weeks without a deal – or staying in for at least another year whilst politicians try to find a compromise deal.
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Theresa May has always insisted she’ll put duty before ambition, and tonight she made the ultimate sacrifice in a statement to her MPs just a short while ago in committee room 14.
Steve Baker, the ERG diehard showing no signs yet of backing the Prime Minister’s deal, has referred to how it would be like coming on the pitch when your team is 10-0 down at half time and it would be beyond challenging to turn it round and break out of the surly bonds of the EU.
They’ve said no – emphatically and twice – to Theresa May’s Brexit deal, but tomorrow afternoon MPs will have the chance to say what sort of Brexit deal they do want.