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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‘It was with a heavy heart I supported the government today’ – Tory MP Mel Stride
Tory MP and Chair of the Treasury Committee, Mel Stride, spoke to Matt Frei about supporting the government’s Covid tier plan for England.
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Post-Brexit farming policy ‘less a revolution, more an evolution’ – Environment Secretary George Eustice
We spoke to the environment secretary George Eustice
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Post-Brexit farming revolution ‘cannot afford to fail’, says National Farmers’ Union president
We’re joined by Minette Batters, president of the National Farmers’ Union
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‘Why are we making everybody go into a tier they probably don’t need to be in?’, asks Conservative MP Pauline Latham
Pauline Latham’s Mid Derbyshire constituency was in Tier 2 before the lockdown, but will be put into Tier 3 next week.
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Falsely imprisoned: The story behind the hit TV series For Life
What makes For Life distinctive is that it’s based on the real life story of Isaac Wright Junior.
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‘Both sides’ political red lines seem to be trumping economic considerations’, says head of UK-EU relations think tank
We’re joined by Anand Menon – director of the ‘UK in a Changing Europe’ think tank.
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Funeral of football legend Diego Maradona takes place in Buenos Aires
The football legend Diego Maradona has been laid to rest at a private ceremony in Buenos Aires, with only his closest friends and family present.
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Tory MP says PM needs to ‘rethink’ Covid restrictions and ‘get Britain working again’
Northern Ireland has just begun another two weeks of circuit-breaker restrictions, with pubs and restaurants shut and most shops only able to operate on an appointment only basis for collection.
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Donald Trump has a goal ‘to steal the election’, says writer Anne Applebaum
We were joined by the writer and historian Anne Applebaum.
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‘It undermines faith that actions have consequences’ – former civil servant on Priti Patel bullying inquiry
We spoke to Alex Thomas, a former civil servant and programme director at the Institute of Government
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‘Society needs to be shocked’ into making environmentally sustainable changes, says climate scientist
The government has launched what it’s described as a “green industrial revolution” to tackle climate change, including more nuclear power, wind and solar energy – and phasing out the sale of petrol and diesel cars over the next 10 years. We spoke to climate scientist Prof Hannah Cloke and began by asking her what she…
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Business minister insists ‘all the protocols were followed’ with government PPE contracts
We asked Business Minister Nadhim Zahawi what he thought of the damning National Audit office report into personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts – and whether the best way to get a contract with the government is to know a Conservative MP?
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UK will ‘build the market’ for green energy to make it affordable for consumers, says Business Minister Nadhim Zahawi
We spoke to the Business Minister Nadhim Zahawi. His own department had calculated that it would cost some £70 billion a year to reach net zero carbon emissions. But is that really enough?
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‘She wants to be the type of vice-president that Joe Biden was to President Obama’ – Suzy Loftus, Kamala Harris’s friend
We spoke to Suzy Loftus, a former interim San Francisco District Attorney, and friend of US vice president-elect Kamala Harris. We asked her what her victory meant for her.
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‘If the UK moves forward with this Internal Market Bill… there will be no US-UK trade deal – period’ – Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle
We spoke to Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle, who sits on the House Committee on Ways and Means, which is responsible for international trade agreements.
