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.
-
Years & Years’ Olly Alexander on the fight for LGBT rights
Olly Alexander, lead singer of Years and Years, talks to Channel 4 News about their new album Palo Santo – as well as LGBT mental health, coming out and being scared to hold his partner’s hand in public.
-
Exclusive: Russian Foreign Minister accuses UK of ‘extermination of the evidence’ in Skripal case
In an exclusive interview with Channel 4 News, Russia’s top diplomat said he would not rule out the possibility that the UK was engaged in a cover-up. Sergey Lavrov also claimed that “all kinds of tricks” had been used to change the rules of the OPCW, the international chemical watchdog.
-
4m
Justice Minister Edward Argar on women’s prisons: ‘We believe residential centres are right way to go’
It’s been over a decade since a report into deaths at womens’ prisons, commissioned by Labour, was published. One of its recomendations was that big prisons, which it described as “social dustbins”, should be “largely done away with”. Justice Minister Edward Argar is asked why it has taken successive governments so long to act.
-
6m
Anne Hernández, Brexpats in Spain: ‘We’ve spent two years in limbo and don’t know what future holds for us’
There may now be more clarity for EU citizens living here, but arrangements for how Brits in EU countries will be treated after Brexit have yet to be spelled out. Anne Hernández is British and has been living in Spain for over 30 years. She’s head of the British expats’ association in Spain. Dimitri Scarlato…
-
4m
Tonia Antoniazzi MP: ‘My constituents need to have access to medicinal cannabis’
Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi has children in her constituency whose conditions are alleviated by medicinal cannabis.
-
8m
Dominik Tarczynski, Law and Justice party: ‘It’s not about refugees, it’s about illegal immigrants’
German Green Party MEP Barbara Lochbihler and Dominik Tarczynski, an MP from Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice party, discuss migration.
-
4m
Margot James MP on ‘upskirting’: ‘Sir Christopher Chope doesn’t speak for Tory party’
Culture Minister Margot James discusses plans to outlaw ‘upskirting’.
-
2m
Gina Martin ‘annoyed and disappointed’ that ‘upskirting’ bill derailed
Gina Martin has campaigned for ‘upskirting’ to be made illegal.
-
6m
Shaun Bailey AM: ‘Young people with no criminal record carry knives because they feel unsafe’
Shaun Bailey is a Conservative member of the London Assembly and a former youth worker. Eliza Rebeiro set up Lives Not Knives, a charity which diverts young people from crime.
-
4m
Two teenagers release single in memory of friends who died in Grenfell Tower
It’s almost exactly a year since the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire. The anniversary was marked today with the opening of a memorial garden dedicated to healing, peace and justice. The Mayor of London joined survivors, firefighters and community members who helped in the aftermath of the fire at a church service remembering the…
-
4m
Robin Wright: ‘This is an all or nothing, peace or war, summit’
Robin Wright, Distinguished Fellow at the Wilson Center think-tank in the United States on the ‘known unknowns’ about the upcoming summit.
-
3m
Queen’s Honours: criticism of CBE given to head of Network Rail
Actress Emma Thompson, author Kazuo Ishiguro and former Liverpool football manager Kenny Dalglish have all been recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list. They’re among more than a thousand people honoured, the vast majority for work in their community. But despite the fact that those decisions were made months ago, there’s been fierce criticism of…
-
6m
Susan Danger, US Chamber of Commerce to EU, on steel tariffs: ‘Unintended consequences can be extremely harmful to everybody’
Susan Danger is from the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU in Brussels, and Robert Scott is from the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.
-
5m
Grant Shapps MP on rail nationalisation: ‘When service is useless, who do you boot out?’
Former Conservative party chairman, Grant Shapps, is calling for Great Northern, run by Govia Thameslink, to lose its franchise.
-
6m
Dr Sarah Wollaston MP: ‘Women in NI should have same abortion rights as those in rest of UK’
Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston chairs the Commons health and social care committee.
