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 were joined by Tracy Brabin, who’s the elected Mayor of West Yorkshire, and Mohammed Patel, a human rights lawyer who is a lifelong Yorkshire cricket fan.
Michael Holding played for the West Indies cricket team and is now a cricket commentator.
We caught up with Roger Hutton, the now former chairman of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, who announced his resignation this morning after he released a statement.
Campaigners broke into cheers today in Parliament Square as the government pledged to give more support to women experiencing the menopause. Among them, the TV presenter Davina McCall, who was behind a Channel 4 documentary highlighting the way menopausal women have been treated by society. We spoke to her and asked what today’s announcement meant…
We spoke to Steven Hall, who’s a director of photography. He’s worked on a range of major films including Gladiator, Fury and War Horse. We asked him what he thought of this awful tragedy and the loss of fellow director of photography Halyna Hutchins.
We were joined by Jeremy Brown, professor of respiratory infection at UCL and member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, the group of experts which advises the government on vaccines.
We spoke to Dr Alistair Blair, the medical director for Northumbria Healthcare Trust, and Nadra Ahmed, the chair of the National Care Association.
We talk to Eliot Sykes, who is both a consultant and a director of the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
This afternoon the health secretary said he doesn’t believe the pressures currently faced by the NHS are unsustainable, and that’s why he’s not ordering a move to Plan B measures – for example, the compulsory wearing of face masks, despite the warnings today from the NHS Confederation.
The prime minister today condemned attacks on NHS staff after hearing from a Midlands MP how over 600 attacks on staff at her local hospital have prompted those working in the A&E department to resort to wearing body cameras.
We spoke to former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who is now chair of the Jo Cox Foundation.
We spoke to Labour’s Harriet Harman – known as the ‘Mother of the House’ for being the longest serving woman MP in the Commons.
We were joined from the Commons by the Speaker of the House, Sir Lindsay Hoyle.
We spoke to Katherine Araniello, a domestic and sexual abuse activist and rape survivor.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has admitted it has a “long way to go” to restore public confidence in the criminal justice system amid record low rape convictions, as Channel 4 News was given exclusive access inside the organisation.