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.
They are young men, teenagers or barely into their twenties, already serving years in prison for serious violent offences, including murder.
We have been speaking to the Department for Work and Pensions Minister Chloe Smith about the mounting pressures on people’s finances – and the disproportionate impact of inflation on more vulnerable people.
Is it fair to abandon teacher assessment in favour of exams for students who’ve already been through so much disruption? The Department for Education says it has recognised their situation by putting in place adaptations to “support the safe and fair delivery of exams this year”. We’re joined by the founder of the Commission on…
Across England and Wales, pupils are revising for their A-Level and GCSE exams. Always a stressful time, the pupils facing exams this year have already had to deal with school closures, remote learning, time off with Covid and, for some, dealing with the symptoms of Long Covid. Now in-person exams are back for the first…
In Ukraine, the last remaining soldiers holding out in the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol have again pleaded to be allowed to escape to safety. They have been pounded by Russian artillery for weeks and are fast running out of medicine and food supplies.
We spoke to the MP Kevin Hollinrake, and asked him how he felt about the Home Office ignoring his reservations about the planned location of an asylum seeker processing centre at a former RAF base in his constituency.
We were joined by Tamya Cox-Toure, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in the state of Oklahoma, which has voted for one of America’s toughest abortion bans.
We spoke to General Sir Simon Mayall, a former deputy to the Head of the British Army.
We’re joined by Margot James who was a minister under Theresa May.
It is perhaps not the first thing you think of when you are diagnosed with cancer – but it costs a lot.
The number of cancer patients seeking support with heating bills has more than doubled in a year, according to figures from one of Britain’s largest cancer charities shared exclusively with Channel 4 News.
We spoke to Conservative MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown – and began by asking him if he agreed with Boris Johnson’s former cheerleader Steve Baker when he said the “gig is up” for the prime minister.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that as many as 10,000 people may have been killed in Mariupol.
We speak to Alexander Downer, Australia’s former foreign minister, who looked after their border policies – and has been reviewing immigration here.
We speak to Conservative MP, Tom Hunt, who heads the Home Affairs Policy Committee among backbench Conservative MPs. We began by asking him what he thought of the plans.