In the next 12 months, Prince Harry will be launching multiple lawsuits against multiple newspapers, as part of what he describes as his ‘life’s work’ to reform the British media. He is accusing some of the country's most popular newspapers of hacking phones, tracking cars and even bugging hotel rooms in order to get stories and photographs of him and his family and friends. On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood speaks to royal correspondent Laura Bundock about the accusations, and Graham Johnso...
Mar 26, 2023•19 min
Some councils in England have come under fire for unnecessarily felling old healthy trees to make way for regeneration projects. In Plymouth more than a hundred mature trees were chopped down despite public disapproval, and in Sheffield an independent inquiry found that the council's destruction of thousands of trees was misjudged. National Highways, the government agency responsible for England's main roads, has also admitted that more than half a million trees it planted beside a single 21-mil...
Mar 24, 2023•19 min
The former prime minister has been questioned by a cross-party group of MPs for more than three hours, with Boris Johnson's political career on the line over COVID rule-breaking parties in Downing Street during lockdown. He's given evidence to the privileges committee's inquiry, set up after the House of Commons referred the matter last April. On the Sky News Daily podcast, Sally Lockwood is joined by our chief political correspondent Jon Craig as we examine what's been said, by whom and when, p...
Mar 22, 2023•20 min
The Metropolitan Police is institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic, according to the independent police review conducted by Baroness Casey. She was appointed to carry out the review following the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer in 2021. On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood is joined by our home editor Jason Farrell to go through what the report reveals and the recommendations for reform. Also, Mina Smallman, mother of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry ...
Mar 22, 2023•21 min
Credit Suisse, one of Switzerland's largest banks, has been swallowed up by its rival UBS for £1bn. The shotgun merger happened less than a week after the UK financial authorities saved the British arm of Silicon Valley Bank which had collapsed in the US. These troubles either side of the Atlantic have spooked investors - the concern now is other banks could follow. On the Sky News Daily Sally Lockwood speaks to economics and data editor Ed Conway about what this means for investors and whether ...
Mar 21, 2023•14 min
Pandemic lockdowns and the cost-of-living crisis have driven more people to gambling to help ease financial struggles - with support helplines this year receiving a record-breaking number of calls for help. A third of those calls are now from women. On the Sky News Daily, Kimberley Leonard speaks to former gambler Lisa Walker about her story, who now works as a peer support worker for the charity BetKnowMore and runs their women-only programme New Beginnings. Also, Lisa Patton, a treatment servi...
Mar 20, 2023•16 min
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has expanded free childcare for working parents in England to cover all children under five. The move could allow 60,000 more parents of young children to enter the workforce according to the government’s independent forecaster. While the move has been welcomed by parents, there's been criticism from the childcare sector, which is struggling with a workforce shortage and financial pressures that are forcing businesses to close. On the Sky News Daily, Kimberley Leonard spea...
Mar 17, 2023•16 min
The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has delivered his spring budget, telling MPs his priority is to get people back to work. Free childcare for working parents in England, pensions breaks and tax cuts for businesses were among the announcements made. On the Sky News Daily Liz Bates is joined by Sky’s Political Editor Beth Rigby and Economics and Data Editor Ed Conway to go through the budget and assess what it means. Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott Editor: Philly Beaumont...
Mar 15, 2023•24 min
The UK, USA, and Australia announced a joint programme to build more nuclear submarines, and declared that China poses the biggest threat to the world economy of any country. It came following the inauguration of China’s President Xi Jinping’s precedent-setting third term in office, where he called for the country to modernise its military to make it a "Great Wall of Steel". On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood is joined by our US correspondent Mark Stone, and Asia correspondent Helen-Ann Smith...
Mar 15, 2023•19 min
Gary Lineker will return to BBC screens after reaching a deal with the corporation over an impartiality row. The Match of the Day host was removed from the show temporarily over comments made on his personal Twitter account about the UK government’s small boats policy. On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockward is joined by former controller of BBC Radio 4, Mark Damazer and Professor Suzanne Franks, former broadcaster with BBC News, and head of journalism at City, University of London, to discuss the...
Mar 14, 2023•20 min
Three candidates are vying to become the next leader of the SNP and Scotland's first minister after Nicola Sturgeon's resignation in February. Humza Yousaf, Kate Forbes and Ash Regan have been accused of 'trashing’ their own party in a series of TV debates as they set out their policies and attack each other's records in government. On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Sky’s Scotland correspondent to take a closer look at the candidates, plus pollster Sir John Curtice looks at who ...
Mar 13, 2023•22 min
A wave of Russian missile attacks across Ukraine has left at least five people dead and many buildings destroyed. The seven-hour barrage, described as 'Russian barbarism' by Ukraine's foreign minister, is part of a resurgent offensive by Russian forces in the region. On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Sky's chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay from Kyiv. They discuss the battle for the eastern city of Bakhmut which is under attack from Russian forces. Podcast producer: Soila Apparic...
Mar 10, 2023•17 min
A month on from the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria millions of people are struggling to come to terms with their new reality. More than 50,000 people were killed and those who survived are left with the grief and devastation of losing their loved ones – not to mention aftershocks, disease, and a lack of basic supplies. Among the worst affected are children. On this edition of the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by British aid worker, Joe English, from UNICEF, who ha...
Mar 09, 2023•14 min
Home Secretary Suella Braverman insists migrants arriving in the UK illegally on small boats will be "removed swiftly" under the government's plan to tackle the crisis. The bill also includes an annual cap on the number of people entering via safe routes. But critics argue it's unfair, unworkable and, according to the shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, "risks making the chaos worse". On the Sky News Daily podcast, Niall Paterson examines the plan with our political correspondent Ali Fortescue,...
Mar 08, 2023•23 min
Sir Keir Starmer has appointed partygate investigator Sue Gray as his chief of staff, prompting some Tory MPs to say her inquiry was a "Labour stitch-up". But she will have to set out the timeline of her discussions with Labour, including when she first began talking to Sir Keir about the role. Not the only one facing questions, Boris Johnson is soon to appear in front of a parliamentary committee looking into whether he misled parliament. On the Sky News Daily, host Niall Paterson is joined by ...
Mar 07, 2023•19 min
We think she’s ten years old and we think we know her name, but those details are only known because of the former basketball player Dennis Rodman after he spoke to a newspaper a decade ago revealing the identity of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's youngest daughter. She has now been seen in public in North Korea at military events and parades, but why has Kim Jong Un decided to bring her out now? On the Sky News Daily, host Niall Paterson explores what it means for the secretive North Kore...
Mar 06, 2023•20 min
Tracy Daszkiewicz was Wiltshire Council's director of public health when ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were targeted in March 2018 with the deadly nerve agent novichok. Three months after the Salisbury poisonings, two other people fell ill at a flat several miles away in Amesbury and one of them died. Later this month, an inquiry into Dawn Sturgess' death will have another preliminary hearing. On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to Ms Daszkiewicz about the impact ...
Mar 03, 2023•21 min
The ex-health secretary faces fresh scrutiny after leaked WhatsApp messages alleged he rejected testing advice on care homes during the pandemic. With preliminary hearings for the UK COVID-19 Inquiry under way, the new revelations raise further questions around Westminster's response to the global pandemic. On the Sky News Daily Podcast, Niall Paterson is joined by science and technology correspondent Tom Clarke who has been digging into Mr Hancock's leaked messages and their wider implications....
Mar 02, 2023•20 min
The ‘troubled teen’ industry in America is worth billions of dollars every year – but it is plagued by allegations of neglect and abuse. This industry was dragged into the spotlight last December when 17-year-old Taylor Goodridge died at Diamond Ranch Academy in Utah. On the Sky News Daily Podcast, Niall Paterson is joined by our US correspondent Martha Kelner to take a closer look at troubled teen camps and hear from whistle-blowers and campaigners calling for more regulation. Producer: Sarah G...
Mar 01, 2023•27 min
Four months of negotiations appear to have paid off – for now – as Rishi Sunak's plan for post-Brexit trade rules has been signed off by the EU. The prime minister met European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen – who also met King Charles - during her visit to the UK on Monday. The Northern Ireland Protocol - negotiated during Brexit talks to allow goods to move without checks across the border with the Republic of Ireland – has been problematic for the DUP, who boycotted power sharing i...
Feb 27, 2023•18 min
One year ago, 25-year-old Douglas, who lived on his parents' farm in southwest Scotland and fixed tractors for a living, packed his bags and went to war. He joined thousands of volunteers from around the world who signed up to fight for Ukraine. Now back in Scotland, Sky’s national correspondent, Tom Parmenter, goes to see him, and his parents Sheena and Derek, to find out why he went, and the impact his decision had on him, and his family. Producer: Emily Upton Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott S...
Feb 27, 2023•19 min
In an extended episode to mark one year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ilyas, Oksana and Seva come together for the first time as a group, to share just some of what impacted them most in the last 12 months and to consider what the future holds? OUR DIARISTS Oksana, 35, works in overseas education. She lives with her husband, Seva, in an apartment complex in central Kyiv. Many of Oksana’s closest friends have left the country to begin new lives in Europe. Some may never return. She’s con...
Feb 25, 2023•23 min
Stories of sexual violence against Ukrainians in Russian-occupied areas have been slowly emerging since the start of the full-scale invasion last February. At least 154 cases of conflict-related sexual violence - classified as a war crime and a crime against humanity - have been officially identified, although experts believe the real figure is significantly higher. On the Sky News Daily, Anna Jones is joined by Alisa Kovalenko, a documentary filmmaker and survivor of sexual assault at the hands...
Feb 24, 2023•16 min
Shamima Begum, the British schoolgirl who left London when she was 15 to travel to Syria and join Islamic State, has lost an appeal to return to the UK. The former ISIS bride, now 23 years old, remains in a refugee camp in northern Syria as the Home Office's decision to deprive her of British citizenship was upheld. On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood is joined by Richard Barrett, the former director of global terrorism operations at MI6, who contributed to the appeal report to discuss the adv...
Feb 23, 2023•19 min
Manchester United is known around the world but the club has faced tough times in recent years with fans deeply unhappy with its owners. But could that be about to change? Earlier this month, we found out the British billionaire entrepreneur Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Qatari Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani had officially submitted bids for the Premier League club. On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood takes a closer look at the two men vying to get their hands on Man Utd with our sports corresponden...
Feb 22, 2023•20 min
On 24 February 2022, Vladimir Putin sent up to 200,000 soldiers into Ukraine, sparking Europe's biggest movement of refugees since World War Two. The Russian president declared his goal was to "demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine and not occupy it by force. With Ukraine forming closer ties to the West and an estimated 180,000 Russian soldiers killed or wounded, we look back at the changes of the last 12 months and what may come next. On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood talks to Sky's security a...
Feb 21, 2023•16 min
Teenagers and young adults are increasingly turning to TikTok and Instagram to self-diagnose autism and ADHD. That's according to the British Psychological Society. It's thought that frustration with waiting times for children and adolescent mental health services is making teenagers turn to social media. But psychologists are warning that it takes years of experience to determine different mental health conditions and labelling is not necessarily helpful. On the Sky News Daily Liz Bates talks t...
Feb 20, 2023•24 min
Ilyas praises Ukraine’s leader after Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s UK visit and is grateful his wife and children, in Poland, don’t have to experience life in the middle of a warzone. Oksana is happy to have electricity this week and is looking forward to Spring and a trip to Europe, where she’ll be reunited with her best friend after many months apart And her husband Seva, a military volunteer, has returned from eastern Ukraine and reflects on how he has gotten used to the Russian missile bombardment, ...
Feb 18, 2023•12 min
A tranquiliser used by vets is infiltrating street drugs and deepening addiction across cities in the US. The drug called xylazine is causing wounds so severe that without treatment results in amputation. The problem is particularly bad in Philadelphia – which has long been ground zero for the opioid crisis. On this edition of the Sky News Daily Niall Paterson talks to US Correspondent, Mark Stone who has been to the city and to Professor Paul Cristo from John Hopkins University about the on goi...
Feb 17, 2023•22 min
Nicola Sturgeon has resigned as Scotland's first minister after more than eight years in the role. The leader of the Scottish National Party told a news conference that it is right "for me, for my party and the country" and insisted it was not a reaction to "short term pressures". She said she will remain in office until a successor is found. On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to our Scotland correspondent Connor Gillies who was at the news conference. Plus, commentators Shona Craven, ...
Feb 15, 2023•19 min
