Matt Frei , Europe Editor and Presenter
Matt Frei is Europe Editor and Presenter at Channel 4 News.
This year he has led the Channel 4 News coverage of events in Ukraine from the crash site of Malaysia flight MH17, to the tensions in Crimea and reported live from Independence Square on Kiev’s bloodiest day. He has also secured major interviews with Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Prior to his appointment as Europe Editor for Channel 4 News, Frei was the Washington Correspondent for two years and has reported on the Americas on everything from business and culture to US foreign policy and its view of the world.
He is also part of the presenting team across Channel 4's news and current affairs portfolio, including the award-winning Dispatches programme.
Matt previously anchored the BBC World News America bulletin and was also Washington Correspondent. He presented a weekly radio show called Americana, and in two decades at the corporation reported from Bonn, Rome, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He is the author of two books: Italy: The Unfinished Revolution published in 1996 by Random House and Mandarin books and Only In America published in 2008 by 4th Estate.
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Whistleblowing climate scientist Dr Maria Caffrey: ‘It wasn’t about providing truth… it was about toeing the line with the Trump administration’
Dr Maria Caffrey was a climate scientist in the US National Parks Service when Barack Obama was President.
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Zimbabwean Journalist Violet Gonda: ‘Mugabe’s death has divided the society’
Zimbabwean journalist Violet Gonda who has been in exile from Zimbabwe for the last 20 years, after she escaped former President Mugabe’s rule.
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Author Edna O’Brien: ‘Women and girls are weapons of war now ’
Author Edna O’Brien latest novel is called simply GIRL and it deals with the abuse of women, this time based on the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped five years ago.
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Student leaders on Hong Kong protests
Student leaders on Hong Kong protests
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John McDonnell MP: ‘The party policy is straightforward – we want another referendum’
Matt Frei spoke to the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and began by quoting the Labour MP Stephen Kinnock, who said that Labour has had more negotiating positions on Brexit than the Kama Sutra.
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Lord Sumption: ‘We haven’t yet got to the people against the courts – maybe we’ll get there one day’
We spoke to former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption and asked him whether we are now facing a constitutional crisis.
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Dr David Nicholl: ‘If Rees-Mogg wants to repeat that outside of Parliament, I will sue’
Jacob Rees-Mogg has escalated his war of words with a neurologist who warned of fatalities in the event of a No-Deal Brexit.
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Ken Clarke: ‘I’m not surprised Jo Johnson doesn’t agree with his brother – I think the majority of Conservative MPs don’t agree’
We speak to Ken Clarke, one of the 21 rebel Tory MPs who have been kicked out of their party.
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Stephen Kelly, Manufacturing NI CEO, on Brexit negotiations: ‘People are losing their jobs and being used as pawns in a game of politics’
The Irish prime minister says he is looking forward to hear Boris Johnson’s plan for a deal on Irish border checks after Brexit when the two meet on Monday.
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Labour peer Lord Mandelson: Johnson ‘will manipulate timing of election to frustrate what we are doing to prevent no-deal Brexit’
The House of Lords could be in for a marathon session with scores of amendments to vote on, as government supporters launch a filibuster operation to stop the bill aimed at preventing no-deal from getting through.
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Vice President of European Parliament, Katarina Barley: using word ‘surrender’ is ‘playing with fears and prejudices people have’
Katarina Barley is vice president of the European Parliament and a German MEP who served until recently as Justice Minister in the Berlin government.
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Are Brexit talks really yielding progress?
In Brussels, Britain’s Brexit envoy David Frost was in town today for technical talks with EU counterparts to see whether any progress can be made.
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Europe says that no ‘compatible’ alternatives to Irish backstop have been presented
The Prime Minister says his threat of a no deal Brexit helps strengthen our negotiating position with the EU. However the sense in Europe is different.
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SNP’s Joanna Cherry: Suspending parliament ‘is the sort of thing that happens in unelected dictatorships’
The SNP’s Joanna Cherry led the legal challenge brought by 75 parliamentarians in Scotland’s top civil court, seeking to block the Prime Minister’s decision to suspend parliament.
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Conservative Brexiteer Andrew Bridgen: ‘We’re heading for a general election in the next nine months’
Following John Major’s condemnation of Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament, we spoke to Andrew Bridgen, a member of the European Research Group of Conservative MPs.
