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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‘A perfect example of how to shoot yourself in the foot’: Labour MP Stephen Kinnock on ousting deputy leader
Last night’s move dismayed supporters of Tom Watson. Cathy Newman spoke to Stephen Kinnock, who is a member of Future Britain – a group of Labour politicians set up by the deputy leader to discuss the direction of the party.
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Labour MP Ian Lavery insists ‘there isn’t any civil war in the party’
Cathy Newman asks Labour MP Ian Lavery if today’s row showed that Jeremy Corbyn had lost control of the situation?
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Stanley Johnson: ‘I am probably siding with my eldest son’, Prime Minister Boris
Cathy Newman talks to author and former politician Stanley Johnson, who is also the father of Prime Minister Boris.
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Tobias Ellwood MP: ‘We are tantalisingly close to the deal’
Tobias Ellwood is the Conservative MP for Bournemouth East.
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Sam Gyimah MP: ‘There are a lot of Boris’ positions that are inconsistent’
Former Conservative MP Sam Gyimah joined the Liberal Democrats yesterday.
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Sarah Wallaston MP: ‘I know there are a lot of very unhappy Conservative colleagues’
Former Conservative MP Sarah Wallaston left the Tories for the new Change UK party in February – and joined the Lib Dems a month ago.
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Liberal Democrats launch plan to cancel Brexit
At the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth the new party leader Jo Swinson wants one thing above all – to cancel Brexit altogether, without holding a second referendum.
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Comedians discuss Brexit
While the world looks on and laughs at our parliamentary paralysis, what do those whose jobs involve making money from mirth make of it all?
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SNP’s Hannah Bardell on Boris Johnson’s government: ‘I wouldn’t trust them to build a Lego bridge’
We spoke to the Scottish National Party MP Hannah Bardell and began by asking if she thought the bridge was a good idea.
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Prof John Curtice: ‘Conservative vote looks more like a Leave vote than in 2017’
We talk to John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University.
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Labour MP Catherine West on Labour manifesto: ‘We will be saying we want to remain in EU’
Labour MP Catherine West’s constituency of Hornsey and Wood Green in London secured the highest Remain vote in the EU referendum.
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Labour plan to scrap ‘unfair’ university admissions system
Tomorrow is A-level results day in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and Labour say they want to scrap the current university admissions system in England which offers places based on predicted exam grades, saying it penalises students from poorer families.
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Conservative MP Alberto Costa: I’m ‘serious’ about stopping no deal
Alberto Costa is one of more than 20 Conservative MPs who co-signed a letter with Philip Hammond to the Prime Minister, warning Boris Johnson not to pursue no deal.
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New Cambridge University harassment allegations
British universities have been plagued by controversy over how they handle allegations of sexual misconduct made by students.
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Graffiti granny: ‘I have been accused of scaremongering, but it’s not so. If this form of Brexit goes through, we are facing catastrophe.’
A retired teacher who was caught on camera scribbling anti-Brexit graffiti across Wakefield has said she did it for her grandchildren – claiming they’ve been ‘wronged’ by the older generation.
