From President Trump to Erdogan: Theresa May’s tour
Mrs May is building up an interesting travel history that begins to paint a picture.
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.
Theresa May has said America’s ban on refugees is a matter for Washington. On a visit to Turkey she no less controversially confirmed that the British Government will help to build a new generation of fighter jets for the Turks. Our Political Editor Gary Gibbon was there.
Mrs May is building up an interesting travel history that begins to paint a picture.
The presence of Theresa May seems to have tempered Donald Trump. “I’m not so brash,” he assured the British media, saying he was a “people person”. There was praise for Brexit, talk of a “fantastic relationship”, and building on military and trade deals.
Did Theresa May tame Donald Trump or did we just learn that Donald Trump can do “restrained.” It wasn’t obviously part of his repertoire in the first week in office.
Getting the tone right in the press conference will be a big challenge – she wants to make a thin-skinned novice feel like she’s a good ally but doesn’t want to look like a patsy.
Theresa May delivered the speech to a very warm welcome from Republicans. Her wariness about President Putin received applause.
Mrs May has arrived in the States. Asked on the plane, how she would get on with Mr Trump, she said ‘sometimes opposites attract’.
Theresa May tonight ripped up the Tony Blair/David Cameron approach to foreign intervention in a speech to Republican senators and congress members in Philadelphia.
Mrs May was asked on the plane out about the personality gulf between the vicar’s daughter and the billionaire property developer. Could they really get on? Mrs May said: “Haven’t you ever noticed? Sometimes opposites attract.”
The prize of being first through the door has been grabbed in full knowledge that the rest of the world is waiting and measuring before even trying to march to President Trump’s side. Some countries, indeed, think the UK is acting with indecent and rather desperate haste to cosy up to the new US President.
Parliament will have its say on Britain’s divorce from the EU after the Supreme Court told the Government that it could not trigger Brexit without passing an Act of Parliament first.
At the moment the Government is only committed to a vote right at the end of the whole process when the chances of getting the UK Government back into negotiations with a new mandate will be zero.
While the media in America are being presented with “alternative facts” by the White House, it’s been all but impossible in the House of Commons to get any facts at all about what went wrong in our nuclear deterrent system last summer.
As ever with a Michael Fallon statement, we are little the wiser at the end of the hour and he will wear that as a badge of pride.
Martin McGuinness’ decision to stand down from the Northern Ireland Assembly robs the power-sharing institutions of one of their most important and unlikely defenders.