Michael Crick is political correspondent of Channel 4 News.

He has been a journalist for more than 30 years, working for three of the great flagship TV programmes.

He was a founder member if Channel 4 News in 1982, and later served as C4N Washington Correspondent.

Crick joined the BBC in 1990, and worked on Panorama before joining Newsnight in 1992.

He won Royal Television Society awards in 1989 and 2002. He was political editor of Newsnight from 2007-11.

Crick is the author of several books, including biographies of Arthur Scargill, Jeffrey Archer and Alex Ferguson - which were all bestsellers - and of Michael Howard and Michael Heseltine.

Follow Michael Crick on Twitter @michaelLcrick

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