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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Johnson and Varadkar at loggerheads over backstop
Nearly a week after he became Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has finally spoken on the phone to the Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.
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No-deal planning committee meets for first time
The Prime Minister has created three new cabinet committees to oversee the delivery of Brexit.
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Behind the scenes of May’s disastrous election campaign
As Theresa May might have reflected as she left Number 10 for the last time, snap elections are risky.
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No-deal? Extension? Election? – Boris Johnson’s Brexit plan | Politics: Where Next? podcast
Listen and subscribe to Politics: Where Next? on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other good apps. As Boris Johnson moves into Number 10, who better to talk to this week than Peter Foster, the Europe Editor of The Daily Telegraph – widely seen as the best plugged in analyst of the Brexit saga on the bloc… And Francis…
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Boris Johnson promises to make Britain ‘greatest country on earth’ as he faces the Commons
Pledging the dawn of a new golden age Boris Johnson has set out his priorities in office, insisting that Britain will leave the European Union on October 31st.
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40m
Boris Johnson vows Brexit in 99 days as he becomes Prime Minister
Standing in Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister, Boris Johnson promised the British people that Brexit will be dealt with in 99 days.
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Boris Johnson wins battle to become Tory leader and PM
Tonight he is preparing for government: his mission as Prime Minister to “deliver Brexit, unite the country and defeat Jeremy Corbyn”.
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Minister quits and tries to force emergency debate on Boris Johnson
The Conservative leadership ballot closed this afternoon and we’ll get the result tomorrow, but few doubt Boris Johnson has won.
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Boris Johnson vs Jeremy Corbyn – where next for Brexit Britain? | Politics: Where Next? podcast
Listen and subscribe to Politics: Where Next? on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other good apps. This week, to talk about the new government about to start and about Labour’s contortions on Brexit, Isabel Hardman of The Spectator and Rafael Behr of The Guardian. Our chat started with the big substance of that hustings held by The Sun…
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May says she’s ‘worried about state of politics’ in farewell speech
Some saw that as a message for her likely successor Boris Johnson.
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Johnson criticised as UK ambassador resigns in Trump emails leak row
One of Sir Kim Darroch’s leaked dispatches warned that Donald Trump was thin-skinned.
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Labour would back Remain in referendum on Tory Brexit
Labour have finally set out their definitive position on Brexit – sort of.
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Lord Turnberg on resigning Labour whip: ‘Leader of party and party machine have problem with anti-semitism’
Lord Turnberg was one of three Labour peers who resigned the whip today.
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15m
Trump calls UK ambassador ‘very stupid’ and ‘pompous’
Donald Trump didn’t just attack the British Ambassador to the United States in his series of tweets this morning, he also laid into Theresa May.
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32m
The Powell Brothers: Siblings on advising Thatcher and Blair, Brexit and the leaked memos| Politics: Where Next? podcast
In this week’s podcast we bring together two brothers – Charles Powell and Jonathan Powell.
