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Political correspondent Cathy's scoops have included the revelation that five illegal immigrants worked at the Home Office and Gordon Brown insisting on a knighthood for his ally, Labour donor Sir Ronald Cohen.

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Expenses anger prompts anti-Blears campaign »

The controversy over expenses has left MPs like former minister Hazel Blears facing a raft of candidates bidding to oust her at the next election. Cathy Newman reports from Salford.

Hazel Blears

Ashcroft cash targets key marginals »

Labour plans to turn Lord Ashcroft's donations to the Conservative party into an election issue, claiming the money is used to target marginal seats. Cathy Newman reports.



Brown faces Chilcot inquiry before election »

Gordon Brown bows to political pressure by agreeing to give evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the war in Iraq before the general election. Cathy Newman reports.

Biography

Cathy joined Channel 4 News as political correspondent in January 2006 - the first on-screen newcomer to the political team for 11 years - and works alongside political editor Gary Gibbon.

Since joining, Cathy's scoops have included the revelation that five illegal immigrants worked at the Home Office, and Gordon Brown insisting on a knighthood for his ally, the Labour donor Sir Ronald Cohen.

Prior to arriving at Channel 4 News, Cathy worked as chief political correspondent for the Financial Times for three years. Before that she covered politics and media for the FT.

Cathy joined the FT from the Independent, where she was media business correspondent. She has also been a guest presenter on GMTV's Sunday programme.

During her ten years on Fleet Street, Cathy broke a string of stories about Stephen Byers, triggering Sir Richard Mottram's famous outburst: "We're all f**ked. I'm f*****. You're f*****... It's the biggest c**k-up ever ...".

She also revealed the arts minister Kim Howells description of the Turner prize as "conceptual bull****".

In 2000, Cathy won the prestigious Laurence Stern Fellowship, spending four months following in the footsteps of Woodward and Bernstein at the Washington Post.

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