
Paul McNamara
Policy Correspondent at Channel 4 News
Senior Political Correspondent for @Channel4News; all views usually belong to someone else far cleverer and passed off as my own...
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1 day ago |
channel4.com | Paul McNamara
Reform UK might be pleased with their showing in the Hamilton by-election, but yet again the party is grappling with major internal problems after their chairman Zia Yusuf’s sudden resignation.
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5 days ago |
channel4.com | Paul McNamara |Paul Mcnamara
The UK is moving to a “warfighting readiness” and unveiled a multi-billion pound overhaul of the armed forces, but has fallen short of an iron-clad commitment to spend 3 per cent of GDP on defence. Billions will be spent on “up to” 12 new nuclear submarines unveiled in the Strategic Defence Review published on Monday. It underlines a commitment that the nuclear deterrent will be “at the heart of this investment”, says the government. Defence Secretary John Healey, said:“The world has changed.
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3 weeks ago |
channel4.com | Paul McNamara |Paul Mcnamara
The assisted dying bill returns to parliament on Friday after months of scrutiny by a committee of MPs, but its future is still uncertain. Last November MPs voted narrowly in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, with a majority of 55. A number of changes have been made to the proposed law in recent months – causing MPs on both sides of the debate to question whether they will change how they previously voted.
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4 weeks ago |
channel4.com | Paul McNamara
The head of the Royal Navy, Admiral Sir Ben Key, has been suspended over allegations that he had a secret affair with a subordinate. It’s the first time in the Navy’s history that its First Sea Lord has been the subject of a misconduct investigation.
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1 month ago |
channel4.com | Paul McNamara
We were at the Jaguar Land Rover factory in the West Midlands where Sir Keir Starmer unveiled the tariff deal earlier.
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RT @Channel4News: After Donald Trump and Keir Starmer announced a new trade deal between the US and the UK, @PGMcNamara asks the prime mini…

A former Tory MP tells me: “The Conservatives have got it wrong - the right is uniting, they’re just uniting behind Reform. “The problem any possible defector has is if you don’t jump ship now, soon enough Reform may well not want you.”

#BREAKING Nottinghamshire County Council goes Reform. 34 councillors - that’s a majority https://t.co/EST1vG1OwV