Siobhan Kennedy is the Washington Correspondent for Channel 4 News, based in DC.
Siobhan joined Channel 4 News in 2008 where, as Business Editor, she covered the financial crisis, austerity and its impact on the British economy and more recently, Brexit.
Before that, as a reporter for The Times, she worked as Politics and Business Correspondent and prior to that was a correspondent for Reuters in London and New York, where she covered the tech boom and bust and 9/11. She returns to the US just in time for the 2020 election campaign.
A tumultuous night on the markets: the pound has slid still further against the dollar and the Euro – although the result has sent share prices up.
The think-tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has said both the Conservatives and the Labour Party aren’t being honest about the economic consequences of their manifesto proposals. It didn’t look at the manifestos of the Lib Dems, Ukip and other parties. The IFS warned that the Tories’ pledges to boost NHS spending may well be…
There have been scenes of jubilation in Nigeria after 82 of the so-called Chibok school girls kidnapped by the extremist group Boko Haram were reunited with their parents.
The Government has sold its remaining shares in Lloyds Banking Group, returning the bank fully into private hands. Lloyds received a £20bn taxpayer bailout at the height of the financial crash eight years ago. The bank says that has now been repaid in full, but not everyone is happy. Channel 4 News has been talking…
The plan had been for the Chancellor and the Lloyds bank boss Antonio Horta-Osorio to go on a walkabout at an apprenticeship training centre in Coventry. A mutual back-slapping moment to celebrate, almost a decade on, the return of the once beleaguered Lloyds into private ownership. But the general election happened and purdah rules knocked…
It seems the malware the hackers used was a sophisticated virus called Wanna Decryptor. It shuts down files on a victim’s computer then tries to blackmail them in exchange for restoring access to their files.
The former editor and columnist Kelvin MacKenzie is set to leave the Sun newspaper. It comes as Ofcom reviews a bid by Rupert Murdoch to take over Sky.
The sexual harassment scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News channel was the subject of an Ofcom hearing today. It is currently considering Mr Murdoch’s bid to take over Sky.
Another senior executive has quit his job at Fox News in the wake of the sexual harassment scandal that forced out former chairman Roger Ailes and one of the network’s biggest on-screen stars.
The leaked account of Mrs May’s dinner with Mr Juncker suggests the two sides could hardly be further apart on every key issue at stake – and on the speed at which any kind of agreement can be reached. Siobhan Kennedy is in Downing Street.
The UK economy has grown far slower than expected in the first three months of the year, as inflation begins to bite.
Channel 4 News understands that more women could be set to come forward in the United States with allegations of sexual harassment while working for Fox News.
The UK’s inflation rate stayed at 2.3 per cent in March, but may well have risen if it hadn’t been for the timing of Easter. Food prices in March were 1.2 per cent higher than last year, the biggest annual rise for three years.
The boss of Barclays, Jes Staley, could lose his annual bonus after two regulators opened an investigation into his conduct in a whistleblowing case.
A decision is imminent over Ken Livingstone’s future in the Labour party. The former London mayor says he expects to be expelled over suggestions that Adolf Hitler supported Zionism in the 1930s.