Paul McNamara , Senior Political Correspondent
Paul McNamara is Senior Political Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
Paul joined the Channel 4 News Investigations Team in 2015 and reported on the biggest stories in the UK. He has covered three General Elections for the programme, the last as Political Correspondent.
Prior to Channel 4 News Paul was the co-founder of a production company and news agency providing investigations for Channel 4 Dispatches, BBC Panorama, and every newspaper on Fleet Street.
His career started at The Bedford Times and Citizen, before joining national newspapers to cover defence and the war in Afghanistan extensively.
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Will Tory MPs back Privileges committee report in vote next week?
Our senior political correspondent Paul McNamara has been taking the temperature among Tory MPs, who must now choose whether to accept the report in a vote next Monday.
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Ofgem boss: Net-zero targets cannot be achieved without major overhaul of planning laws
The head of the energy regulator Ofgem has told Channel 4 News that net zero targets cannot be achieved without a major overhaul of planning laws.
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Boris Johnson’s constituents react to resignation as Labour eyes by-election
A by-election and a new MP awaits for the people of Uxbridge and South Ruislip in West London.
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Boris Johnson rewards key allies in resignation honours list
Allegations of cronyism go hand in hand with resignation honours lists but, even so, Boris Johnson’s seems to have taken the biscuit, in the eyes of the opposition at least.
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Woking council ‘effectively bankrupt’ with nearly two billion in debt
“Our aim is for Woking to be recognised as a premier global business location” – so said Woking Borough Council in 2017 when it put its economic development strategy online.
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Chancellor backs interest rate rise despite fears of recession
Owning a home is getting more expensive as lenders begin putting up mortgage rates, spooked by stubbornly high inflation figures.
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Ofgem drops energy price cap: how will it affect consumers?
Gas and electricity bills for the average household will go down to just over two thousand pounds a year after the energy regulator Ofgem dropped its price cap.
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Inside Lincoln Prison: The initiatives aiming to stop inmates from reoffending
A shortage of prison wardens in England and Wales is leaving many inmates locked in their cells for more than 22 hours in the 24 hour day- with an increasing risk they will re-offend.
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20,000 rail workers to strike in June
Any train travel plans on the Second of June? You might want to scrap them. Because an estimated 20,000 rail workers including caterers, station staff and train managers are to stage another strike that day, in the long-running dispute over pay and conditions.
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Rishi Sunak attends Council of Europe summit in Iceland
The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has arrived in Iceland for a Council of Europe summit where he’s been pushing for closer coordination to deal with illegal migrants.
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Local elections: Labour make gains in the Midlands
We’ve been out and about in Derbyshire where a swathe of councils were up for grabs – and the results have echoed the picture across the country – one of Labour gains and Tory losses.
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Exclusive: Chinese-made Hikvision CCTV cameras, accused of posing risk to national security, found on GCHQ building
They make more CCTV cameras than any other company in the world, and their products have been used by the Chinese government in the suppression of Uighurs in China. Britain’s use of Hikvision technology doesn’t just make human rights campaigners queasy. It’s also concerning for national security experts, who warn of the dangers of outsourcing…
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Richard Sharp resigns as BBC chairman after breach of rules
Richard Sharp is stepping down as BBC chairman – after a report found he had failed to disclose his involvement in arranging an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson – at the very time he was being appointed to the job. Mr Sharp insisted his breach of the rules had been “inadvertent, not material” – but…
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MPs have spent the day debating and voting on the Illegal Migration Bill
On a day where the government was keen to claim credit for helping people escape the fighting in Sudan, it insisted that its highly controversial illegal migration bill was compassionate.
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Prince Harry sues The Sun newspaper over phone hacking claims
The Royal Family reached a “secret agreement” with the owners of The Sun newspaper to stop Prince William and Prince Harry bringing phone hacking claims, Prince Harry has told the High Court. The Duke of Sussex is suing News Group Newspapers over alleged unlawful information gathering. They’ve denied there was any such agreement.
