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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The Agriculture Minister, George Eustice, has quit the government over Theresa May’s promise to allow the Commons a vote on delaying Brexit – if her deal is rejected.
Theresa May saw off one rebellion by accepting an amendment from a Conservative MP to protect EU citizens’ rights if there’s no deal.
Theresa May offers MPs a vote on whether to take no deal off the table if they reject her Brexit deal next month.
Labour are putting more pressure on the government, with a further indication that they could end up backing another public vote on Brexit.
For many years Ian Austin was seen by Tory opponents as just about the most tribal Labour politician on the planet. He would hurl abuse at Conservative opponents, never drop the party battle for a moment of non-political civility. It was visceral for him. Today he finds himself walking out of the tribe. He has issued…
We don’t need more time – we need decisions from the British Parliament – this from the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.
The new Independent Group of MPs is two days old, and today it boosted its membership to 11.
At PMQs nobody dared mention the splinter group formed from Labour and Tory MPs only moments earlier. It was like everybody pretending they didn’t hear the vicar’s fart at afternoon tea.
Brexiteers, and some Remainers, are fearing tonight that their proposed plan for leaving the EU, the ‘Malthouse Compromise’, has been dumped by the government.
The Malthouse Compromise was dismissed as a runner by Michel Barnier in talks with the Brexit Secretary last night. The EU always thought it was putting too much faith in technology solutions to the border issue in Northern Ireland and took a pick ‘n mix approach to the painstakingly crafted Withdrawal Agreement. Fine, they say,…
Not for almost 40 years has there been such a split in British politics, as seven Labour MPs walked out of the party they once loved over Jeremy Corbyn, Brexit, anti-Semitism and what they call the “machine politics of the hard left”.
Theresa May has managed to achieve an extraordinary spread of distrust in her own party.