- Left the BBC in 1997 after 35 years as a reporter to stand as an Independent "anti-sleaze" MP in Tatton against Neil Hamilton - and he won.
- Awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992.
- He won the Royal Television Society's Reporter of the Year award in 1977 and 1993.
- Educated at Taverham Hall School in Norwich and The Leys in Cambridge.
- Has a degree in English from King's College, Cambridge.
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