Gary Gibbon
Ed M, Blairites and sofa hopping
“He was asked what in practical terms his promise to heal the north-south divide actually meant. He didn’t really know.”
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
How, and when, does the Coalition end?
“The Cabinet Secretary, I’m told, wants to make sure that civil servants are prepared for the Lib Dems downgrading cooperation to something way short of a coalition before 2015.”
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Jon Snow
Blair bares all in memoirs
No apology for Iraq – but former prime minister Tony Blair comes close to one on, strangely, fox-hunting in his memoirs published today, writes Jon Snow.
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Breaking the bus pass promise?
David Cameron promised before the election to protect free bus passes for the elderly. Will he keep that promise?
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Gary Gibbon
Cameron expected to go to the Palace tonight
A covert peak at Nick Clegg’s negotiating notes will give little cheer to Labour.
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Gary Gibbon
Lib Dems to consult on Tory coalition deal
The Liberal Democrats’ federal executive and the MPs are to meet at 7.30pm to discuss the coalition deal negotiated with the Conservatives.
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Gary Gibbon
Burnham speaks out against a rainbow coalition
Andy Burnham, like David Blunkett, John Reid and Tom Harris, has spoken out against a Labour and Liberal Democrat coalition.
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Faisal Islam
Markets stand firm despite parliament hiatus
There’s no objective evidence so far that the hung parliament hiatus is causing market panic. The single best indicator: demand to buy UK government debt, was tested in what could have been an unfortunately-timed debt auction at 1030 this morning.
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Gary Gibbon
Game on for a Lib Dem-Tory coalition
The Tory shadow cabinet member who told me at 9am it was all over for Con-Libbery now acknowledges it would appear to be game very much back on.
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Gary Gibbon
Are the Tories ‘stuffed’?
The fact that one well-known Tory shadow cabinet member thinks the party is “stuffed” gives you some idea about trust levels and optimism among Conservatives, blogs Gary Gibbn.
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Gary Gibbon
Mixed smoke signals at Westminster
Gary Gibbon blogs on the latest developments on a day of talks at Westminster.
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Gary Gibbon
Perhaps an outline deal today
Gary Gibbon blogs that one Tory MP told him his fellow MPs felt “the hand of history on our gonads”, as the Conservatives and the Lib Dems aim to find a deal on joint-government
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Faisal Islam
Is this the shape of the Con-Lib alliance?
As Ken Clarke hints at a Cabinet position for Vince Cable and a possible deferrment of the Tories plans to cut the deficit, Faisal Islam asks: is this the shape of the Con-Lib alliance?
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Gary Gibbon
A rare peacetime coalition – or a minority Tory government?
In the wake of today’s hung general election, face to face talks start tonight between the main parties. They could produce the sort of peacetime coalition it would normally take years to germinate, blogs Gary Gibbon
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Voting problems: highest turnout in 30 years?
As voters are turned away from the polls, was turnout the highest in 30 years?