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.
The cost of living crisis means the lowest-paid workers in the UK are skipping meals, falling behind on bills and increasingly using foodbanks according to a new survey by the Living Wage Foundation.
We talked to Oleksiy Goncharenko, the Ukrainian MP for the Black Sea port of Odesa.
We were joined by the former British Ambassador to Russia, Sir Tony Brenton, and Professor Steve Tsang, who is director of the China Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
The journalist and broadcaster Joan Bakewell has described her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth as an anchor in a dizzying world, whose great achievement was to maintain her role as a constitutional monarch of such a diverse country as the United Kingdom.
We’re joined by the Alliance Party leader Naomi Long and Matthew O’Toole from the SDLP.
We speak to Reverend Harold Good, former President of the Methodist Church in Northern Ireland – who in 2005 was one of two ministers who helped oversee the decommissioning of the IRA’s weapons.
We spoke to Ben Warren, who runs Concept Taverns with 11 pubs across West Yorkshire, Helen Barnard, associate director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Henri Murison, who’s chief executive of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership.
Chris Stark is the chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, a publicly funded body which advises the Government on how to achieve emissions targets.
After days of defending herself over a video of her partying – Finland’s prime minister says she has taken a drug test to ‘clear any doubt’.
We spoke to the film critic, Anna Smith, about the future of Cineworld.
Jackie is joined by three students who’ve received their results today.
Earlier Jackie spoke with the minister for School Standards, Will Quince.
A Leeds university student has been sentenced to 34 years in prison in Saudi Arabia, after she returned to her homeland for a holiday.
We spoke to Group Managing Officer David Diggins from Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service – and asked him what the fire service had been dealing with in the last few days.
We’re joined by Dolin Bhagawati, a neurosurgeon and vice-chairman of the Doctors Association.