Cathy Newman , Presenter
Cathy Newman is the first female main presenter of Channel 4 News.
She joined the programme in 2006 and has broadcast a string of scoops, including allegations of violent abuse against the British barrister John Smyth, sexual harassment allegations against the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Rennard, and an investigation into a British sex offender, Simon Harris, which saw him jailed for 17 years.
Previously Cathy spent over a decade working in Fleet Street, latterly with the Financial Times.
Her book - Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention - about female pioneers in 20th century Britain, was published in autumn 2018.
Her second book, It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared To Be Different, is published on October 15, 2020.
In her spare time, Cathy is a keen amateur violinist, and plays in The Statutory Instruments quartet with members of parliament and Westminster staff.
In 2000, Cathy won the prestigious Laurence Stern Fellowship, spending four months at the Washington Post.
She is married with two children.
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Can Boris Johnson persuade Tories to back him through Partygate crisis?
We spoke to Lucy Fisher, deputy political editor at the Telegraph, and former Labour adviser Ayesha Hazarika.
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Johnson could become ‘existential threat to future of Conservative Party’
We spoke to Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen.
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PMQs: David Davis comments were ‘too theatrical’, says Rees-Mogg
We spoke to Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg
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PM’s authority ‘near impossible to recover’, says former govt adviser
We spoke to former government special adviser Salma Shah about how likely it is Boris Johnson will survive the Partygate scandal.
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‘Putin is a serial aggressor’, says former US ambassador to Ukraine
We spoke to John Herbst, former US Ambassador to Ukraine, and started by asking if talks between Nato and Russia could defuse tensions on the Ukrainian border.
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The PM ‘has to go’, says Labour Party chair
We spoke to the Labour Party chair, Anneliese Dodds, and started by asking whether she believed the prime minister’s denials that he misled parliament.
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‘The Prime Minister has been clear and consistent’, says Minister of State for Northern Ireland
We spoke to the Minister of State for Northern Ireland, Conor Burns, and began by asking him whether Boris Johnson or Dominic Cummings are telling the truth.
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‘I’m not sure conflict’ between Russia and Ukraine ‘can be averted‘, says defence select committee chairman
Russia’s foreign minister has rejected as “total disinformation” US claims it is preparing a pretext to invade Ukraine.
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BBC licence fee ‘very hard to sustain’ long term, says former culture secretary
We spoke to former culture secretary John Whittingdale, and began by asking him whether this announcement on the BBC was just the centrepiece of ‘Operation Save Big Dog’ or ‘Operation Red Meat’.
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Syria police officer trial shows Assad’s regime is ‘torture state’, says daughter of kidnapped man
We spoke to Wafa Mustafa, whose father Ali was dragged away by armed men from his home in Damascus more than eight years ago.
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Boris Johnson apology ‘meant absolutely nothing’, says daughter of keyworker who died from Covid
In Prime Minister’s Questions, the leader of the opposition highlighted the case of Hannah Brady. Her father Shaun died after contracting Covid at the age of just 55.
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‘Entirely disproportionate’ to call for PM to resign, says minister
Greg Hands is the minister of state for energy, clean growth and climate change.
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‘Too little and too late’ from PM, says Tory MP Sir Roger Gale
We spoke to Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale, who’s called for Boris Johnson to resign.
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Can Boris Johnson keep avoiding lockdown party questions?
The government has spent the day insisting that it won’t be passing comment on whether Boris Johnson attended the party held in the garden at Downing Street on the 20th of May 2020.
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“He set the rules himself… they were supposed to protect people”, bereaved campaigner responds to No.10 party allegations
We spoke to Lobby Akinola of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Group.
