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.
Northern Ireland is about to witness what unions are calling as its biggest ever day of industrial action. Workers from 16 trade unions covering schools, hospitals and public transport are due to walk out for 24 hours tomorrow, in a dispute over pay. Our senior political correspondent Paul McNamara is at Stormont.
A missile was fired towards a vessel near Yemen this afternoon. Experts say it was carrying Russian oil and was mistakenly attacked by the Houthis who thought it was linked to the UK.
Rishi Sunak is facing renewed pressure from both sides of his party, as MPs threaten to rebel when the Rwanda bill is voted on next week.
The former energy minister Chris Skidmore has announced that he is resigning the Conservative whip and will stand down as an MP, over new Government legislation which he says will promote the production of new oil and gas.
Rishi Sunak has poured a bucket of cold water over speculation he could call a May General Election – claiming instead that his ‘working assumption’ is a vote in the second half of this year.
Rishi Sunak is facing more calls from his political opponents to call an election early this year. On his left flank, the Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey told a campaign rally in Guildford that the Prime Minister should stop “clinging on to power.” From the right, the Leader of Reform UK Richard Tice claimed…
Gales and heavy rain will cause more travel drama tonight for revellers across the UK.
The Treasury has announced a date for the Spring Budget.
The Home Secretary James Cleverly has apologised after he joked at a reception in Downing Street about spiking his wife’s drink with a date rape drug.
Pubs should be in the midst of their most profitable time of the year, but rising energy bills mean many will be forced to shut down for good, according to a leading trade body.
The UK just got closer to falling into an official recession – after new figures showed the economy shrank in the third quarter of the year.
Councils in England which ‘drag their feet’ over housing development applications could face action, and could even see their planning powers taken away, the housing secretary Michael Gove has warned.
Councils have warned that many are still at risk of going bankrupt – despite £64 billion in funding for English local authorities which ministers have just announced for next year. Michael Gove said it represented a “real terms increase” of almost 6.5%.
Labour say they will vote against the Rwanda bill.
The top civil servant at the Home Office has been summoned before MPs on Monday – to explain the full costs of the government’s scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.