Jackie Long is social affairs editor and presenter for Channel 4 News.
Jackie Long is Channel 4 News Social affairs editor and presenter. She joined the programme in 2011, following more than two decades at the BBC. Most recently she was Correspondent at Newsnight, and she previously worked on The World at One, PM and Five Live.
We spoke to Labour MP Carolyn Harris, who has led calls for tougher gambling regulation, and Christopher Snowdon, head of lifestyle economics at the free-market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs – who is against new restrictions that could limit how much individuals can gamble.
Yvette Cooper is the Shadow Home Secretary.
The Conservative MP Danny Kruger helped lead backbench Conservative attempts to further toughen the Illegal Migration Bill.
We spoke to Dave Penman, general secretary of the FDA trade union.
Earlier I talked to Dr Christine Ekechi – a Consultant Obstetrician – who contributed to the report. I asked her why it was that so little has improved in the twenty years since the problem came to light.
The prospect of many more months of NHS strikes and in the run up to May’s local elections the state of the health service – and the public sector pay disputes could well affect the outcome in a swathe of marginal seats.
The former US assistant secretary for defence Mary Beth Long joins Jackie Long from Washington.
The French president Emmanuel Macron has signed his controversial pension reform into law, despite months of mass protests – as union leaders and left wing opponents claimed he had sneaked the measures through in the middle of the night.
The Japanese prime minister had to be evacuated from a campaign event – after an explosion went off.
We speak to the journalist and broadcaster Peter Taylor, whose new book ‘Operation Chiffon’ describes the top secret intelligence operation that led to peace in Northern Ireland.
“Britain is not close to being a racially just society”. That is the damning conclusion of a new report that claims to be the most comprehensive review of racial inequality here in decades.
Justin Jones and Justin Pearson’s fellow democrat representative Gloria Johnson took part in the protest alongside them – yet she was not expelled.
Six black boys in search of who they are. The problem is, too often, the outside world has already decided.
We spoke to Katy Balls, political editor of The Spectator magazine, and asked her how serious the splits in the Conservative party were over immigration?
There have been more scenes of violent protest in France today. But this time, it’s not President Macron’s attempt to raise the pension age that’s prompted the demonstrations. The thousands who gathered near Sainte-Soline in South West France today are determined to oppose plans for a new water storage system they say favours large farms.…