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.
The number of migrants who have arrived in the UK so far in 2024 after crossing the Channel has reached a new record high for the first three months of a calendar year.
Public satisfaction with the NHS is at the lowest level ever recorded, partly due to the problems in getting a GP appointment and long waits for hospital treatment.
Rishi Sunak has been forced to carry out a mini-reshuffle after two ministers resigned from the Government today. The Skills Minister Robert Halfon unexpectedly quit his job this afternoon and said he will stand down as MP for Harlow at the general election.
We’re joined from Downing Street by our Senior Political Correspondent Paul McNamara.
The government should apologise – and pay compensation – for failing to communicate changes to the state pension age to women born in the 1950s. That’s according to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, which spent five years investigating claims by the Women Against State Pension Inequality group – also known as Waspis.
The government has put the UK on what it hopes will be a path to becoming a world leader in the fight against smoking-related diseases. It has introduced its Tobacco and Vapes bill that will mean that the legal age people can buy cigarettes will be raised by one year every year, so anyone born…
Foreign governments will be banned from owning British newspapers and magazines under plans that could scupper the sale of the Telegraph to a UAE-backed consortium.
The government has backed the development of new gas fired power plants which critics have claimed would make the country more dependent on fossil fuels.
Yesterday they cut national insurance by another two pence. Today, the Prime Minister and his Chancellor want to scrap it altogether. How they would pay for it isn’t clear. Labour says the pledge is “more reckless than Liz Truss”. Meanwhile, after studying the Budget, the Institute for Fiscal Studies says most people will be worse…
How is this budget going down with people around Britain? Paul McNamara watched Jeremy Hunt’s speech with a group in Bournemouth, part of the so-called blue wall of Conservative seats in southern England under threat.
What do voters want to see in tomorrow’s budget?
In a round of media appearances, the Chancellor was keen to stress it will be a prudent and responsible Budget, and any tax cuts have to be affordable.
A government-commissioned review into political violence is calling for police to be given special powers to tackle protests outside Parliament.
Voters in the market town of Wellingborough are getting ready to head to the polls in a by-election where Labour hope to overturn a massive 18,000 Conservative majority.
The government has promised working parents 15 hours of free childcare a week for two-year-olds from April – eventually extending to 30 hours for children as young as nine months. But a staffing crisis in the childcare sector means it might have to break that promise. It’s now offering a thousand pound cash incentive to…