Paul McNamara is Senior Political Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
Paul joined the Channel 4 News Investigations Team in 2015 and reported on the biggest stories in the UK. He has covered three General Elections for the programme, the last as Political Correspondent.
Prior to Channel 4 News Paul was the co-founder of a production company and news agency providing investigations for Channel 4 Dispatches, BBC Panorama, and every newspaper on Fleet Street.
His career started at The Bedford Times and Citizen, before joining national newspapers to cover defence and the war in Afghanistan extensively.
The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged America to deliver military aid as quickly as possible, as Russia pushes ahead with its offensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
The Labour Party has confirmed it will abandon the government’s scheme to send failed asylum seekers to Rwanda.
The Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has said that – like the US – the UK cannot support a major Israeli offensive on Rafah without a plan to protect civilian lives.
Another week, another Tory scalp for Keir Starmer.
Our Senior Political Correspondent Paul McNamara joined us live from Birmingham to discuss that recount in the West Midlands.
We’re in one area that switched from Tory to Labour last night. Before yesterday, the Conservatives were in control of Nuneaton and Bedworth council in Warwickshire. But they lost 11 seats and Labour gained power by winning 15.
Some good news from Buckingham Palace, King Charles is now well enough to return to public facing duties, as he continues his treatment for cancer.
Next Thursday is the last big test of electoral opinion ahead of the General Election with voters choosing over 100 councils across England, 10 metro mayors and the London Mayor, 37 Police and Crime Commissioners as well as a by-election in Blackpool South.
The government’s Renters Reform Bill has passed through the House of Commons and will now make its way to the House of Lords.
It’s supposed to stop people risking their lives crossing the channel to Britain. But the threat of being put on a flight to Rwanda didn’t stop several more boats attempting the perilous journey across the maritime equivalent of the M25. Rishi Sunak says the government is acting out of compassion, to stop more tragedies like…
Mark Menzies has resigned, after an investigation by the Conservative party said he has shown a “pattern of behaviour that falls below the standards expected of MPs”.
In Washington the House of Representatives votes on a number of foreign aid bills including financial support for Israel and Ukraine in their war with Russia.
Rishi Sunak has set out plans to tackle what he calls Britain’s “sick note culture” and a spiralling welfare bill the country can’t afford.
The Conservative party admits it has known about at least some of the allegations against Mark Menzies for months – but only suspended the whip in the last day.
It’s the housing scandal that refuses to go away. No, not the chronic shortage of housing in Britain, but the question of which house Angela Rayner lived in some ten years ago and whether she broke electoral law.