Cathy Newman , Presenter
Cathy Newman joined Channel 4 News in January 2006. Cathy Newman presents Channel 4 News.
She spent over a decade in Fleet Street, latterly with the Financial Times. Since joining Channel 4 News in 2006 she has broadcast a string of investigations and scoops, including harassment allegations against the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Rennard. She also writes about politics for the Telegraph.
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Labour’s Emily Thornberry calls on party to end anti-Semitism ‘soap opera’ and deal with issue properly
We spoke to Emily Thornberry and asked her why she joined a People’s Vote rally today.
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Former Culture Secretary John Whittingdale on diplomatic leaks: ‘The media have not committed a crime’
The former Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has just launched an all party parliamentary group on Press Freedom in the UK.
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Brexit Party chairman: UK ambassador to US ‘should have offered his resignation’
The chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, and the chair of the Brexit Party, MEP Richard Tice, discuss the leak of Sir Kim Darroch’s emails.
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Labour MP Jess Phillips: ‘As a parent, I am bereft that my son’s school can no longer afford to stay open for five days a week’
We talk to Labour MP Jess Phillips about the schools protest.
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Hip hop legend Robert Glasper on the contribution of black music to American culture.
Robert Glasper is not just a highly prolific musician, acclaimed around the world – he’s become renowned for his ability to fuse all kinds of different genres, something which he says is a return to the roots of jazz.
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Chinese ambassador summoned to Foreign Office amid tension over Hong Kong
This evening China’s ambassador to London was summoned to the Foreign Office over what the UK described as “unacceptable and inaccurate” comments from Beijing in the escalating dispute over the protests in Hong Kong.
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Lib Dem leadership hopefuls Jo Swinson and Sir Ed Davey on Brexit, coalition cuts, climate change and pressing the nuclear button
Here’s a leadership hustings all participants agreed to turn up to.
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Iraqi President Barham Salih on US/Iran tension: ‘War is the last thing the region needs, we are yet to finish the last war on terror’
The Middle East conference has been overshadowed by rising tension and the threat of war between America and Iran.
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Tory MP Andrea Leadsom: ‘I totally trust Boris to be a Prime Minister who will get us out of EU’
We spoke to the former Leader of the House, Andrea Leadsom, who resigned from Theresa May’s cabinet two days before the PM announced she would be standing down.
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Writer Nimko Ali on Boris Johnson: ‘There’s a lot more good in Boris than bad’
Nimko Ali has campaigned most of her life to end FGM, after being mutilated at the age of seven.
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Digital Minister Margot James: Some Tory MPs would vote against no-deal Brexit, ‘even if it meant fall of Conservative government’
Conservative MP Margot James is supporting Jeremy Hunt for leader of the Conservative party.
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Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt FactChecked
How exactly do Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt think they’ll break the Brexit deadlock?
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Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs on refugees: ‘Nobody’s been caged, nobody’s been starved’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has become something of a poster-boy for Europe’s far right. He’s portrayed himself as the defender of a white, Christian Hungary at risk from refugees and migrants. His government has rewritten the constitution, tightened control over the media and remodelled the justice system. Now in his fourth term in office, he’s taken…
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Prisons Minister Robert Buckland: ‘Duty of government to avoid chaos of crash-out Brexit’
Prisons Minister Robert Buckland is a Boris Johnson backer.
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Poet Kate Tempest talks about the country “coming apart” amidst Brexit
Her first two albums were Mercury Prize nominated and now Kate Tempest is back with her latest, The Book of Traps and Lessons.
