Jackie Long , Social Affairs Editor and Presenter
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.
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Manchester ‘stamping’ video was ‘alarmingly violent’, says deputy mayor
We spoke to Kate Green, the Deputy Mayor of Greater Manchester, responsible for policing and crime.
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London young offenders’ institution branded UK’s most violent
Feltham Young Offenders Institution in West London has been branded the most violent prison in England and Wales by inspectors.
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London young offenders’ institution branded UK’s most violent
Feltham Young Offenders Institution in West London has been branded the most violent prison in England and Wales by inspectors.
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‘Trump shooting reveals how deeply divided we are’, says US political commentator
We were joined by the American author and political commentator Eddie Glaude, who’s a professor at Princeton University.
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‘Trump shooting makes chance of Biden re-election almost non-existent’, says Republican pollster
Whit Ayres is a Republican pollster and the founder and president of North Star Opinion Research.
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How did the gunman get so close to Trump in Pennsylvania?
We spoke to Ben Joelson, who’s head of security risk at the Chertoff Group advisory firm. We began by asking for his reaction to what happened.
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‘Everyone got pretty scared pretty quickly,’ says Trump shooting eyewitness
British journalist Tom Newton Dunn was at the rally when the shooting broke out.
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Alec Baldwin breaks down as Rust manslaughter case is dropped
The American actor Alec Baldwin has had all charges against him dropped after a judge dismissed the case, accusing the prosecution of withholding vital information.
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Government announces new early release scheme for prisoners
The Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has hit out at Rishi Sunak and “his gang in No 10” over the prison overcrowding crisis, describing them as “guilty men” who had put their political careers ahead of the safety of the country.
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Will PM approve plans to release more prisoners early?
Another immediate crisis facing the new Government is overcrowded jails – a problem which the Prime Minister said today was worse than he thought.
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‘We’ll have a much stronger voice and a lot more influence,’ says Lib Dem deputy Daisy Cooper
We spoke to Lib Dems deputy leader Daisy Cooper, who won her St Albans seat with an increased majority.
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‘I’m devastated, it’s been a bad night for the Conservatives’, says Sir Charles Walker
We’re joined by Sir Charles Walker, who represented Broxbourne for the Tories for almost 20 years.
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Labour win ‘down to Keir Starmer changing the Labour Party fundamentally’, says Liz Kendall
We spoke to Labour frontbencher Liz Kendall and asked how it feels to be in power after so long.
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The new Children’s Laureate explains why reading out loud is an ‘act of love’
The novelist and screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce has been named the new children’s laureate. At a ceremony in Leeds today, the author behind critically acclaimed children’s books like ‘Millions’ and ‘Framed’, was handed the prestigious medal by his predecessor Joseph Coelho. Mr Cottrell-Boyce has vowed to use his two years in the role to champion the…
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‘My constituent was asked if their son still had autism by DWP’, says SNP’s social justice spokesman
We spoke to David Linden, who is the SNP’s social justice spokesman.
