gibe - an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; his parting shot was `drop dead'; she threw shafts of sarcasm; she takes a dig at me every chance she gets. Synonyms: barb, jibe, shaft, dig, slam, shot.
Plymouth City Council Leader hits back against budget cuts. Tudor Evans, Leader of Plymouth City Council, hits back against the cuts the budget brings to Plymouth. Tudor said: Over the last year George Osborne announced more cuts to support for local councils, saying that the gap would be made up by councils getting more business rates by 2020.
He became Prime Minister on May 11, 2010 after replacing Gordon Brown as Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party who handed in his resignation to the Queen earlier that evening. Nick Clegg is deputy Prime Minister as leader of the Liberal Democrats Party.