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 rehabilitation of offenders is one of the stated aims of His Majesty’s prison service.
Earlier we spoke to Ally Thomson, who is Director for Scotland of the campaign group Dignity in Dying and Dr. Gordon Macdonald, the CEO of Care Not Killing.
The Princess of Wales says it has been “an incredibly tough couple of months” as she revealed she is in the early stages of treatment for cancer.
In the ongoing crisis in the criminal justice system – tonight – a young offenders institution in Kent is set to shut down and be reopened as an adult prison later this year. Cookham Wood has faced criticism in recent years for high levels of violence and appalling conditions but is that why it is…
We speak to Grace O’Malley-Kumar’s brother James, and her father, Dr Sanjoy Kumar, about what they see as the failures in the prosecution.
We spoke to Lord Deben, perhaps better known as John Gummer, who was a cabinet minister and former Conservative Party Chairman. He has been a vocal critic of the Rwanda policy and we began by asking him what happens now after MPs turned down all 10 of the House of Lords’ amendments.
We spoke to Boaz Bismuth MK of the Likud Party.
We spoke to the Lithuanian MEP, Petras Auštrevičius, a former diplomat who’s on the Foreign Affairs and Security and Defence Committees in the European Parliament.
We spoke to Professor Nicola Rollock, author of ‘The Racial Code’, and Martin Forde KC, who Sir Keir Starmer commissioned to investigate allegations of racism, sexism and bullying in the Labour party.
We spoke to barrister Dr Charlotte Proudman, who frequently works in the family courts.
Official figures out today reveal the number of people in England waiting for an autism assessment has risen 47 per cent in the past year.
We spoke to the Labour MP Dawn Butler before Downing Street accepted that the comments are racist.
Later this week the government will unveil its new official definition of what constitutes extremism which is intended to crackdown on Islamist and far-right extremism. Three former Tory home secretaries, Dame Priti Patel, Sir Sajid Javed and Amber Rudd, have signed a joint statement with others warning about the risks of failing to get cross-party…
We spoke to former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and asked him whether this defection calls into question the judgement of the prime minister.
We’re joined by Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Conservative MP Alicia Kearns.