Matt Frei is Europe Editor and Presenter at Channel 4 News.
This year he has led the Channel 4 News coverage of events in Ukraine from the crash site of Malaysia flight MH17, to the tensions in Crimea and reported live from Independence Square on Kiev’s bloodiest day. He has also secured major interviews with Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Prior to his appointment as Europe Editor for Channel 4 News, Frei was the Washington Correspondent for two years and has reported on the Americas on everything from business and culture to US foreign policy and its view of the world.
He is also part of the presenting team across Channel 4's news and current affairs portfolio, including the award-winning Dispatches programme.
Matt previously anchored the BBC World News America bulletin and was also Washington Correspondent. He presented a weekly radio show called Americana, and in two decades at the corporation reported from Bonn, Rome, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He is the author of two books: Italy: The Unfinished Revolution published in 1996 by Random House and Mandarin books and Only In America published in 2008 by 4th Estate.
We’ve been speaking to the civil rights activist The Reverend Al Sharpton. He discussed the coming US election and the decision by philosophy professor and left-wing activist Cornel West to run for the presidency as an independent. But first, we began by asking him about the pro-Palestine demonstrations that have divided people on US campuses.
Liz Lloyd was Chief of Staff to Nicola Sturgeon when she was First Minister of Scotland and joined us live from Holyrood.
Rwanda plan is ‘absolutely worth trying’, says Tory MP
We spoke to Zoe Gardner, a researcher and campaigner on migrants’ rights.
There have been chaotic scenes in Brussels where the local mayor and the police tried to shut down a right-wing conference where Nigel Farage and Suella Braverman were giving speeches.
We spoke to Gregory Meeks – a Democrat who has been against selling F15 fighter jets to Israel.
We spoke to Public Health Minister Andrea Leadsom about the Prime Minister’s anti-smoking bill.
We spoke to Mary Beth Long, a former US Assistant Secretary of Defence.
We spoke to Ian Bremmer, who is a political scientist and president and founder of Eurasia Group, a geopolitical risk advisory firm.
We spoke to the health minister Maria Caulfield and began by pointing out that the government isn’t hitting its own targets on the NHS.
We spoke to Abas Aslani – a Senior Research Fellow at the Tehran-based Center for Middle East Strategic Studies who specialises in Iranian foreign policy.
We spoke to Sima Shine, who was the head of research and analysis for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad from 2003 to 2007, and is now the head of the Iran programme at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.
We were joined by Kurt Volker – a former US ambassador to NATO and Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, who was a diplomat at the US State Department from 2016 to 2023.
We were joined by Labour MP, Kevan Jones.
Earlier we spoke to Conservative MP Stephen Hammond. I began by asking whether he thinks moving from cutting National Insurance to talk of getting rid of it altogether means the Prime Minister realises his Budget didn’t move the dial much.