📺 Political Correspondent @itvmeridian 📡 Presenter 'The Last Word' | 🎙️ Podcast host 💛 Charity fundraiser | 🎓 @SussexUni
Westminster / Sussex
Joined January 2009
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I know every man and his dog has a podcast now, but in my defence, I’ve been working on this for a while.
It was during lockdown I had the idea to chronicle the 40 classic cars my Dad has owned over his 50+ years of motoring
The Drive of My Life is about so much more than cars!
If the US midterms aren't your bag, my podcast project with my dad has a new episode out.
A politics-free 40 minutes reminiscing about life in 1975, when Bill gets his first newspaper job and needs a car to get him to Halifax.
The Drive of My Life youtu.be/Pnb2Ebyvnak
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NEW: Labour will end joint working with the Green Party on councils in Arun, Havant, Lewes and Wealden.
It's after Greens in those areas refused to condemn the party's 'Zionism is Racism' policy.
Lab-Green cooperation continues in Rother, West Oxon, West Sussex.
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BREAK: The Government's announced it's 'minded to' proceed with major council changes in East Sussex and Brighton & Hove. That'll see two new unitary authorities replacing all existing councils.
Also minded to go with three unitary model for Oxfordshire – including West Berks.
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BREAK: The Budget document confirms the government is in the final stages of agreeing new devolution deals for Surrey, Thames Valley, Wessex and Kent.
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NEW: Sussex Police is taking no further action against the Green Party after calls for it to investigate conduct at its Brighton conference.
Spokesperson says after “careful consideration” they are “satisfied that no evidence of criminality has been identified”.
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Fantastic to catch up with ITV Meridian legend @PhilHornby53 to discuss how politics has changed - and how it hasn’t - over the past two decades.
It’s all to mark the 20th birthday of our political programme, The Last Word 🎈
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NEW: Lib Dem MP Clive Jones says colleagues questioning the future Sir Ed Davey as leader are "wrong" and could create "chaos in the party".
The Wokingham MP tells me they'd be "absolutely stupid" to change leader and that Sir Ed's opponents should "forget it".
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EXC: Kemi Badenoch claims Margaret Thatcher’s privatisation of England's water sector has been ‘a success’.
The Conservative leader was responding to Andy Burnham's announcement that he would end the ban on public ownership of water companies.
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Responding to my interview, Environment Secretary Dame Angela Eagle said:
“Kemi Badenoch is living in an alternate reality. How anybody can look at the Tory record on water and call it a success is baffling.”
Full story: itv.com/news/meridian/2026-1…
NEW: Kemi Badenoch has denied the Tories can't be trusted on policing but admitted 'difficult decisions' were taken during the coalition austerity years.
Conservative say they'd boost Hampshire officer numbers by 324, despite them falling by 399 from 2010 to 2024.
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Postcards from MPs in the South to the new Prime Minister from the North.
Find out what they want from Andy Burnham on @itvmeridian tonight.
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MPs from the South pen their postcard to the PM.
Requests to Andy Burnham from Kent, Essex, Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
Full @itvmeridian report on @ITVX 👇
itv.com/watch/news/mps-from-…
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EXC: Andy Burnham tells me anti-immigration protests in Kent and Hampshire are "not the British way".
The Prime Minister condemns those wearing black and covering their faces at demos against small boats - saying it is "designed to intimidate".
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Andy Burnham is facing political correspondents from every BBC and ITV region today.
First time for me at Number 10 North in Manchester.
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NEW: Liberal Democrat MP John Milne tells me the party needs to "up its game" ahead of the next general election.
The Horsham MP insists he supports Ed Davey as leader and says anyone mounting a campaign to topple him should "do a better job of it".
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Lib Dem trade spokesperson and Maidenhead MP, Joshua Reynolds, reacts to the closure to two large hospitality venues in Brighton in the past couple of weeks.
Charles Street Tap and R-Bar have both shut their doors citing rising costs and changing consumer habits.
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EXC: Sir Ed Davey condemns anti-migrant protests in Portsmouth and Dover, describing them as "thugs in black shirts and balaclavas".
The Liberal Democrat leader tells me the "intimidation" of RNLI volunteers in the South East is "disgraceful".
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Full interview on @ITVX: itv.com/watch/news/the-liber…
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How do political parties attract younger voters? I've been getting the thoughts of two Lib Dem councillors who won election in their early 20s.
itv.com/watch/news/youngest-…
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NEW: Winchester's council leader says he'll do "whatever it takes" to preserve its city status.
Cllr Martin Tod was speaking at Lib Dem conference in Brighton, after the Government announced it had withdrawn plans for local council reorganisation in Hampshire.
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Dignity in Dying campaigner Sophie Blake, from Brighton, tells me she’s “devastated” at the defeat of the assisted dying bill.
But Sophie, who was incurable cancer, insists she will “absolutely” continue campaigning.
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NEW: Crawley MP Peter Lamb tells me that the air traffic control operator – NATS – needs to "get a grip".
The Labour MP, who has Gatwick Airport in his constituency, says the technical failure is "incredibly disappointing".
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