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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‘The US cannot rewrite international law to fit Trump’s ideology’, says former spokeswoman for Palestinian PM
Well joining me now from Ramallah in the West Bank is Nour Odeh, a political analyst and former Spokeswoman for the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s government.
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‘Tricky parts of free trade agreement already agreed,’ says Tory Vicky Ford
Tory Vicky Ford is asked if a hard Brexit is inevitable.
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Severe housing shortage in England’s most deprived area
Jaywick has become a byword for deprivation, suffering the stigma of topping the government’s list of the most deprived areas in the country three times now.
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‘We would look to lift benefit cap,’ says Labour’s John Healey
John Healey is Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Housing and Communities.
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‘We’ve got to be building many more social homes for rent,’ says Conservative Bob Blackman
Conservative Bob Blackman is a member of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee.
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Two teenagers found guilty of murdering 17-year-old student Jodie Chesney
Two teenage drug dealers have been found guilty of murdering the 17-year-old student Jodie Chesney.
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Grenfell survivors and relatives react to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s comments
We asked a group of Grenfell survivors and relatives to come into our studio to give their reaction.
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Government Universal Credit adverts banned by watchdog
It’s not the first time the DWP has been criticised for embroidering the truth.
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Almost all food bank users destitute, says study
One in fifty households across the country has used a food bank over the last year – and many of them are living with illness or disability.
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Julianne Moore on her new film ‘After the Wedding’ and the Me Too movement
It’s a story of an aid worker desperate to rescue her cash-strapped charity – suddenly offered hope through a meeting with a rich philanthropist. After the Wedding, released in cinemas this weekend – is a Hollywood remake of a Danish drama first shown in 2006. Only this time, the two lead roles are played by…
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Firefighters’ union raised stay-put issue several years ago, says general secretary
We’re joined by Matt Wrack, the general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union.
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London Fire Brigade chief ‘needs to resign’, says Grenfell United vice chair
We’re joined by survivors and family members of the Grenfell fire.
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‘Treatment they were receiving from those controlling them was shocking,’ former Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Kevin Hyland
Kevin Hyland was the UK’s first Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, leading efforts to tackle human trafficking, and Philippa Southwell is head of the human trafficking and modern slavery department at Birds Solicitors.
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‘They think they’re giving their child a better life’ says Mimi Vu, independent anti-trafficking advocate in Vietnam
We spoke to Mimi Vu, who’s an independent anti-trafficking advocate based in Vietnam, and began by asking what she made of what appears to be a desperate last message by one of the victims.
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Syrian refugee Ahmad Al-Rashid: ‘I was in back of refrigerated lorries, we couldn’t breathe, it was freezing cold’
The issue of migration, and in particular the dangers people face, has become a huge issue across the world over the last decade.
