Channel 4 News is 30 – and I was there at the start
What were YOU doing 30 years ago today? It’s Channel 4 News’s birthday… but things were very different in the beginning.
Michael Crick
Michael Crick has left Channel 4 News. This is an archive of his reports.
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Big names campaign in Corby ahead of by-election
Voters in the marginal constituency of Corby go to the polls next week in the first by-election the Conservatives have had to defend since 2010. Michael Crick has been out on the campaign trail.
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Probe Michael Mates over alleged ‘fraud’, rival urges Hants police
A candidate in one of next month’s police commissioner elections claims rival and former Tory minister Michael Mates could be committing fraud.
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Chain of command
Culture Secretary Maria Millar writes a letter to the BBC saying the Savile scandal has raised concerns about public trust in the corporation. Our Political Correspondent Michael Crick reports.
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‘Extraordinary’ elections for police and crime commissioners
Will you vote? What will the turnout be? Michael Crick examines why the upcoming police and crime commissioners elections are the most extraordinary for many years.
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Testimonials story a ‘political smear’ says Shapps
Channel 4 News still can’t find Corinne Stockheath of Surrey who allegedly testified on Grant Shapps’ website. Would the real Corinne please stand up?
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Is Mitchell being pushed out by his colleagues?
As the impact of “plebgate” lingers at the Conservative Party conference, rumours sweep the conference hall that the chief whip Andrew Mitchell is about to resign.
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Crick’s picks: how to show your Boris/Dave love stylishly
The latest from the Conservative party conference – Michael Crick spots some mischievous stall positioning and fancy some Boris and Dave cufflinks?
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Grant Shapps and the mysterious testimonials
If your name is Corinne Stockheath or Surrey, Dr JLM Richards of Dallas or Richard Warton of Tektriox, Michael Crick would like you to get in touch.
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Scargill’s fight to remain in his NUM Barbican flat
Former miners’ union boss Arthur Scargill gives evidence at the high court today, as his old union, the NUM, effectively try to evict him from the Barbican flat he has used for more than 30 years.
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Crick’s picks: Keith Vaz and the doorstep challenge
The latest from the Labour Party conference – including doorstepping Keith Vaz and hearing from Neil Kinnock how leading the party was “poison”.
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Crick’s picks: Chuka, Manchester and a very persistent protester
Channel 4 News Political Correspondent Michael Crick picks out his highlights from the first day of the Labour Party conference.
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Crick’s picks: the six knights of the Lib Dems
A senior Liberal Democrat was chuckling to me that Sir Bob’s title seems to have done the trick though. Russell was quite a backbench rebel before his trip to Buckingham Palace.
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Like father but not like son
One man who must be in agony over the Andrew Mitchell is his father, Sir David Mitchell, who was an Conservative MP for 33 years.
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Andrew Mitchell: clear as mud
Mitchell’s statement to parliament was intended to “draw a line” under the alleged foul-mouthed tirade against police officers. But as Political Correspondent Michael Crick reports, it has done no such thing.
