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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‘I wasn’t a threat to anyone, I wasn’t a danger to anyone’ – Independent’s Andrew Buncombe
The Independent newspaper’s chief US Correspondent Andrew Buncombe has reported from numerous trouble spots around the world in his 30-year career.
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We could see a million deaths from Covid-19 ‘or even worse’ by the end of summer, says WHO’s Dr Margaret Harris
Margaret Harris is from the World Health Organisation.
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Refuges braced for influx of people able to escape their abusers
The months of lockdown trapped some people in situations that were very far from safe and now, as the restrictions begin to be eased, refuges around the country have been bracing themselves for an influx of people who are finally able to escape their abusers.
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Children’s Commissioner for England fears most high-risk pupils could be lost to education for good
The Children’s Commissioner for England has told this programme there needs to be a razor-like focus on the most high-risk pupils or they could be lost to education for good.
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‘Time will tell as to whether this works or not and whether we see a surge’ – Dr Nathalie MacDermott on pubs reopening
Dr Nathalie MacDermott is a specialist in infectious disease at King’s College London.
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Nearly a third of people have suffered health problems during lockdown because of poor housing
Lockdown has not been easy for anyone, but for millions of people it has meant being trapped in overcrowded flats, or living in rooms plagued by damp and mould 24 hours a day.
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Allegations of misconduct at sisters’ murder scene are ‘sickening and shocking’ – IOPC’s Sal Naseem
We spoke to Sal Naseem, the London Director of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), about allegations that two officers shared selfies taken at a murder scene.
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SAGE professor on second Covid-19 peak: ‘The tide may already been turning’
We are joined by the epidemiologist Professor John Edmunds, who’s a member of the Government’s SAGE advisory group.
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‘We have been given a glimpse over these last few months of what it is like for people with disabilities’ – actor Rory Kinnear
Actor Rory Kinnear lost his sister Karina to coronavirus in May.
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‘It has taken a while for the penny to drop about how significant the impact of school closures have been’ – Tory MP Tom Hunt
With some predicting the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their better off peers rising by 75 per cent, we asked him how much £1 billion could actually do to help.
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Two-thirds of families on universal credit pushed into debt during lockdown
New research has found that two-thirds of people on Universal Credit or Child Tax Credit have been forced into debt during lockdown.
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DJ Sideman: ‘‘We are talking about the murder of people – it is not a hashtag, it is not a TikTok dance, it is not a game.’
I spoke to BBC 1Xtra Presenter David Whitely also known as Sideman and the musician, filmmaker and DJ Don Letts who spent time with Bob Marley when he played in London.
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Met Police have to ‘work hard to explain the rationality’ behind stories that suggest discriminatory policing – Met Police’s former head of diversity
I’m joined now by Victor Olisa, the Metropolitan’s former head of diversity, and head of policing in Tottenham.
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Exclusive: Black bank manager to sue Metropolitan Police for racial discrimination after 26-month nightmare
The Metropolitan Police have told us they will fully investigate allegations made by Dale Semper, a black bank manager, who says he was wrongfully targeted by officers
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Jeremy Hunt: Government’s lack of data on covid testing ‘suggests they are not yet confident it is happening fast enough’
We spoke to the Health Committee chair Jeremy Hunt and began by asking whether he was worried about how slowly the death rate was coming down.
