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.
We spoke to Mina Smallman who has been campaigning for an end to the ‘toxic culture’ within the Met following the murder of her two daughters. Two police officers were later jailed for sharing photographs and highly offensive comments about the murdered women.
We spoke to the Russian ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin about his country’s ongoing war in Ukraine. We asked for his response to the missile strike on a shopping mall in Kremenchuk- and if at the very least he would admit that it was a tragic and terrible mistake?
Labour MP for Rotherham Sarah Champion spoke to us from our Westminster studio.
Sammy Woodhouse, was groomed by the Rotherham gang from the age of just 14.
Ciaran Jenkins is at Queen’s Park station in Glasgow and Andy Davies is in Cardiff.
Mick Lynch who’s general secretary of the RMT union joins Cathy from outside London’s Euston station.
Earlier Cathy spoke to the Government minister Michelle Donelan and began by asking her, how it is that pensioners deserve a ten per cent rise in their income and public sector workers don’t deserve anything like that?
We were joined by former Bank of England policymaker Andrew Sentance.
The government has released a new landmark food strategy, which the prime minister described as a “blueprint” for what we eat and how it’s produced.
We spoke to MP for Bassetlaw, Brendan Clarke-Smith; Anne Longfield who is Chair of the Commission on Young Lives; and Richard Bonner who is part of the Northern Powerhouse partnership which wants to get a better deal for the “levelling up” of the North of England.
There’s already much speculation over what the confidence vote result will mean for Boris Johnson’s long term survival if he hangs on by a small margin.
We spoke to the senior Conservative MP Sir Charles Walker, who was at the 1922 Committee meeting earlier and apparently told Mr Johnson “at times you’ve driven me absolutely wild”.
Prime ministers talk a lot about confidence votes “clearing the air” and letting them “get on with the job”.
We went back to our guests – Royal commentator Victoria Howard, who writes for the Crown Chronicles website, and Charles Anson who’s a former Press Secretary to the Queen.
We were joined by the Royal commentator Victoria Howard, who writes for the Crown Chronicles website, and Charles Anson who’s a former Press Secretary to the Queen.