Conservatives and DUP: What will be in the deal?
When the Tory/DUP deal is agreed between Arlene Foster and Theresa May, don’t expect a publication like the Coalition Agreement in 2010.
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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Tim Farron resigns as Lib Dem leader
Tim Farron has resigned as leader of the Lib Dems suggesting that it’s not possible to be a committed Christian following the word of the Bible and be a successful political leader of a liberal party at the same time. Mr Farron was repeatedly asked at the beginning of the campaign if he thought gay sex…
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May and DUP hold crucial talks
The newly-elected Commons met for the first time today with all the traditional pomp. Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn faced each other across the despatch box to the sound of Labour cheers for him, a stony Tory silence for her. And with it the cold hard reality of political deal-making as Mrs May met the…
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May takes blame for election result
A humbled Theresa May has acknowledged to her own MPs that her future is in their hands, telling the Conservative back bench1922 Committee this evening she would serve” for as long as they want her”. And she took the blame for the election result, admitting: “I got us into this mess, and I’m the one…
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May: from a small majority to minority government
She says she’ll carry on almost as if nothing has happened. But Theresa May went into this General Election seeking a mandate to strengthen her hand in Brexit negotiations, and she’s ended it with a minority government supported by the ten votes of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party.
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Theresa May speech: would it have been much different if she’d won a majority?
The lectern in Downing Street has been wheeled out again.
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Election 2017: Gary Gibbon on the prospects of a minority government
Theresa May is on her way into Buckingham Palace to see the Queen. Our Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports on their meeting.
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A surprise election with even more surprising results
That was the most tempestuous set of results in many many years.
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May says she may scrap human rights laws
From London to Scotland, from the Midlands to North Wales: it’s been a hectic last day of campaigning ahead of tomorrow’s election.
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Theresa May’s final campaign speech
I am at the last venue for Theresa May’s campaign, just outside Birmingham. Half a dozen cabinet ministers just turned up to act as part of the backdrop for her last on camera address to voters.
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Theresa May aims last campaign message at Ukip voters
The CCHQ core team last night produced a final campaign message that didn’t so much dog whistle at Ukip voters as blast a fog horn at them.
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May tours country ahead of poll
Theresa May has also been touring the country throughout the day, ending up back in London this evening. Gary Gibbon says that, after the London terror attacks, she is due to say that if human rights laws get in the way of counter-terrorism, she will change them.
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Election campaign dominated by security
With security practically the only issue on the political agenda, Jeremy Corbyn has urged voters to throw out Theresa May on Thursday over her record on police funding, saying there was deep anger that 20,000 officers had lost their jobs. Mrs May refused to say whether she would reverse the cuts, instead accusing the Labour…
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May appears to warm to Gove’s views on combating terrorism
To take on terrorism, you need to address intolerance and extremism within pockets of certain Muslim communities, not just focus on law and order issues.
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Political leaders promise review of counter-terror policy
Well normal politics hasn’t quite been suspended today – as the PM confirmed the election will go ahead as planned on Thursday. She used her response on the attack to outline her plans on national security. While Jeremy Corbyn will give a speech in the next half hour addressing the attack and setting out Labour’s…