Pippa Crerar

The Guardian’s Political Editor and co-host of ITV’s flagship current affairs discussion programme Peston, Pippa Crerar has covered Westminster and international politics for over two decades. She has reported on more than half a dozen general elections and prime ministers, as well as stories from the Iraq war and the financial crisis to Brexit and various parliamentary scandals.

Whilst leading The Guardian’s political coverage Pippa broke the 2024 election betting scandal. Before joining The Guardian she was Political Editor at the Daily Mirror where she exposed the Partygate and Barnard Castle scandals. Prior to that, Pippa covered politics at the Evening Standard.

Alongside her weekly appearances on ITV, Pippa is a regular on Sky News, Channel 4 and the BBC, where she has presented Radio 4's The Week In Westminster. She has also been portrayed in Michael Winterbottom’s This England, a six-part Sky drama about Boris Johnson and his government during the Covid pandemic.

Pippa combines a sharp, journalistic eye for a story, and the bigger picture it reveals, with authority, wit and warmth. She explores the personalities and policies shaping the agenda, considers how the parties and Whitehall operate, and how they reflect and influence the wider world.

Pippa has won multiple awards including Journalist of the Year from the London Press Club, the Society of Editors, and the British Journalism Awards. She has also won accolades including political journalist of the year, scoop of the year, investigation of the year, the Hugh Cudlipp Award, and Women In Journalism’s woman of the year.