Jackie Long , Social Affairs Editor and Presenter
Jackie Long is social affairs editor and presenter for Channel 4 News.
Jackie Long is Channel 4 News Social affairs editor and presenter. She joined the programme in 2011, following more than two decades at the BBC. Most recently she was Correspondent at Newsnight, and she previously worked on The World at One, PM and Five Live.
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Protection of MPs is ‘responsibility for all of us’ – Jo Cox Foundation Chair Jacqui Smith
We spoke to former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who is now chair of the Jo Cox Foundation.
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Labour MP Harriet Harman says Sir David Amess’ death cannot be ‘the price of democracy’
We spoke to Labour’s Harriet Harman – known as the ‘Mother of the House’ for being the longest serving woman MP in the Commons.
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‘We’ve got to protect the future of democracy’ – Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle
We were joined from the Commons by the Speaker of the House, Sir Lindsay Hoyle.
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CPS unwilling to accept they have failed sexual assault victims for too long, says activist
We spoke to Katherine Araniello, a domestic and sexual abuse activist and rape survivor.
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CPS admits ‘long way to go’ to restore public confidence amid record low rape convictions
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has admitted it has a “long way to go” to restore public confidence in the criminal justice system amid record low rape convictions, as Channel 4 News was given exclusive access inside the organisation.
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‘No commitment’ from government on rising energy prices, says UK Steel
Gareth Stace, the Director General of UK Steel, was among the industry leaders at the meeting with the business secretary.
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‘We don’t close our doors to anybody’, says UNHCR’s Chief of Mission in Libya
We spoke to Jean-Paul Cavalieri, who is the Chief of Mission in Libya for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Families concerned about how they will get by as universal credit uplift comes to end
The £20 weekly uplift to universal credit, brought in at the start of the pandemic, will officially be scrapped tomorrow, on the very day Boris Johnson gives his keynote speech to conference.
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‘This is the ultimate act of betrayal to officers who do a strong and good job’ – Inspector, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary
We spoke to Zoe Billingham from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary which carries out inspections of police forces in England and Wales. We asked her if the police are failing women and girls.
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Police have ‘problem’ with ‘institutional’ sexism and racism, charity director says
I spoke to Andrea Simon, the Director for the End Violence Against Women Coalition, and began by asking if she thought that Wayne Couzen’s full-life term meant justice had been done.
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We need more scanners and staff to detect cancer, says radiologist
It could take more than 10 years to clear the backlog in cancer treatment caused by the pandemic, according to a leading think tank.
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Shortage of UK lorry drivers ‘critical’, says Road Haulage Association
We spoke to Rod McKenzie from the Road Haulage Association and began by asking him how critical the situation is right now.
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Pregnant women should only be in prison as an ‘absolute necessity’, says Tory MP
We spoke to Sir Bob Neil, the chair of the Commons Justice committee, about a report by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman which highlighted a series of failures in the care of the teenager who gave birth at HMP Bronzefield in September 2019.
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No proper plan to meet carbon objectives left UK ‘more vulnerable’ to international gas market, says Labour’s Ed Miliband
We spoke to the Shadow Business Secretary Ed Miliband and began by asking him whether it was disingenuous for Labour to suggest they could do anything differently as global gas prices continue to surge.
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Teenager whose baby died in prison was failed, report says
Multiple failings led to an 18-year-old woman giving birth alone in her cell to a baby which died in Europe’s largest women’s prison, a report has found.
