
Gary Gibbon
Editor at Channel 4 News
News and gossip from the corridors of power in Westminster and beyond from the @Channel4News Political Editor.
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2 days ago |
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Reform UK announced its chairman Zia Yusuf has quit after less than a year in the job. In a short statement on social media – he said that working to get a Reform government elected was no longer “a good use of my time”.
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5 days ago |
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We spoke to the Prime Minister during his trip to Glasgow and asked him about the scale of the threat the country now faces.
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2 weeks ago |
channel4.com | Gary Gibbon
The UK has signed a deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back a crucial military base there for £101 million a year. The deal was blocked at the last minute after an injunction was filed at 2:30 Thursday morning. But a High Court judge overturned the injunction in the afternoon. Campaigners behind the legal intervention have called it a “very, very sad day”, but Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that the deal is ‘of the utmost significance to Britain.’
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2 weeks ago |
channel4.com | Gary Gibbon
The Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood will allow some criminals to be released from custody a third of the way through their sentences in order to ease the pressure on crowded prisons. She told MPs she was accepting most of the proposals put forward by the former Conservative Justice Secretary David Gauke to let well-behaved prisoners out early and scrap most short custodial sentences altogether. The government will also widen the use of chemical libido suppressants for some sex offenders.
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2 weeks ago |
channel4.com | Gary Gibbon
Fresh from winning power last July, Labour got its bad news out quickly and cut winter fuel payments for more than nine million pensioners. Ten months on, after the cold shoulder from voters in the local elections and a growing backlash among his own MPs, Sir Keir Starmer has u-turned. He says more pensioners will be eligible for the benefit – though how many won’t be clear till the Autumn Budget
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