Pippa has covered Westminster and international politics for more than two decades, reporting on seven general elections, eight prime ministers and too<\/p>\n
many major news stories to mention, from the Iraq war and the financial crash to Brexit and parliamentary scandals.<\/p>\n
Pippa is Political Editor of The Guardian and co-presenter of the flagship poiitical discussion programme on ITV, PESTON alongside Robert Peston.<\/p>\n
A warm, witty and authoritative speaker, Pippa has long experience of chairing, presenting and speaking at events in the political world and beyond. She has trusted contacts right at the heart of government, across Whitehall and in the main opposition parties so has a deep insight into what is going on in British politics and society.<\/p>\n
Prior to joining The Guardian, where she revealed the election betting scandal and the winter fuel u-turn, Pippa held the same role of Political Editor at the Daily Mirror where she exposed the Partygate and Barnard Castle scandals. Before that she covered politics at the London Evening Standard.<\/p>\n
Alongside ITV, Pippa is a regular on broadcast media including Sky News, Channel 4 and the BBC, where she is a presenter of Radio 4’s The Week In Westminster. She has also been portrayed in Michael Winterbottom\u2019s This England , a six-part television drama about Boris Johnson and his government.<\/p>\n
Pippa is a multi-award winning journalist who has been Journalist of the Year with the London Press Club, the Society of Editors and the British Journalism Awards. She has won accolades including political journalist of the year, scoop of the year, investigation of the year, the Hugh Cudlipp Award and Women In Journalism\u2019s woman of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"