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Sam is deputy political editor of Sky News, is an award winning journalist who delivers breaking news, exclusive stories and interviews and providing analysis from Westminster. He is also the host of Politics at Sam and Anne’s, the daily 20 minute morning podcast which tells you what’s coming up in the day ahead in British politics. He joined Sky News in June 2019, after 19 years at The Times.
Sam has worked in Westminster since 2005, besides one year in the City as Banking Editor of The Times (2012).

He has covered eight prime ministers, eight general elections and three referendums, and is able to provide the long view on what’s happened to, and happening in, British politics.

He won the Laurence Stern fellowship in 2005, working at the Washington Post covering the George W. Bush White House and in New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina.

James Hanson is an award-winning broadcaster and journalist. He is currently a presenter on LBC radio, where he presents every Saturday and Sunday morning between 4-7am. He also presents a daily evening show on LBC’s sister station, LBC News, every Monday to Thursday between 7-10pm. James writes regular columns for The Spectator and appears as a pundit on BBC Two’s Politics Live.

James started his broadcasting career with the BBC, where he presented BBC Radio Bristol’s Breakfast Show until 2023. His 2022 interview with then-Prime Minister Liz Truss made national and international news and went on to win a Broadcast Press Guild Award, with the judges describing it as “game-changing”. In 2023, he joined Times Radio, where he fronted a range of programmes, including the flagship Breakfast show. He was also the host of Frontline, Times Radio’s interview series about the war in Ukraine, which built up a global audience on YouTube of hundreds of millions of viewers.

When he’s not broadcasting, James is also an experienced event host, as comfortable chairing expert panels as he is presenting corporate awards. He’s provided voiceovers for the BBC and a range of commercial clients. Outside of work, James lives in south London and has a passion for travel, culture and sport and one of his lifetime goals is to visit every presidential library in the US!

Carole Walker is a high-profile journalist and broadcaster who now presents her own highly regarded show on Times Radio.  The programme is essential evening listening, bringing you tomorrow’s news today, great guests, updates on all the latest developments and a first look at the next day’s papers.

She is the author of Lobby Life – Inside Westminster’s Secret Society, drawing on more than twenty years’ experience as a BBC Political Correspondent.

During those decades as a BBC Political Correspondent, she covered some of the biggest political stories in recent history including eight general elections, the EU and Scottish referendums, the rise and fall of Conservative, Labour and coalition governments, resignations, rows and parliamentary debates.  She has travelled to Iraq and Afghanistan with Prime Ministers and reported on international summits.

Carole has a career in news spanning more than 40 years and reported on the first Gulf War, revolution in Moscow, the break-up of the Soviet Union and civil war in the Balkans and Somalia.  She also covered the Lockerbie bombing, terror attacks in London, riots and demonstrations.  She has presented the BBC News Channel, the Westminster Hour on BBC Radio 4 and other discussion programmes.

She left the BBC in 2017 and has since worked as a freelance political commentator/analyst and presenter, appearing on CNN, Sky News, Talk Radio, RTE and other broadcasters and contributing to the Times Red Box and the CNN website.

Carole also presented the podcast The View from Here, which reflected politics outside the Westminster bubble, focussing on the concerns of people in rural communities and small towns.

Carole has an inside knowledge of politics with excellent contacts and understanding of policies and legislation. She regularly contributes to discussions and debates on a range of issues including British and global politics, media relations, rural affairs and devolution.

Ali Fortescue is a Political Presenter and Correspondent at Sky News. She has been at the forefront of Sky’s coverage during some of the biggest political events of the decade, reporting live on Downing Street during the resignations of the last three Prime Ministers. She regularly presents Sky’s flagship politics show ‘The Politics Hub’, including extended daily programmes (Friday-Sunday) during the recent General Election campaign.

Ali has secured several news-making exclusive interviews, including Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s final interview, which was widely seen to have contributed to her resignation days later.

Her areas of interest, alongside British politics in general, include immigration and European politics. She was one of two Sky Correspondents who covered the French election in Paris, following ‘Camp Le Pen’ in the build up to the election. In the weeks leading up to the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Ali was sent to the Baltic States where she followed NATO exercises and reported live from the Russian border.

Ali also writes analysis for Sky News online and contributes to Sky News podcasts and social media channels.

Before Sky, Ali worked at the BBC, reporting for the News Channel and BBC Breakfast.

Dominic Sandbrook is a historian, broadcaster and columnist.

He is known for his best-selling series of books on life in mid-century, post-war Britain: Never Had It So Good, White Heat, State of Emergency and Seasons in the Sun. He is also the author of The Great British Dream Factory and Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982, which also cover contemporary British history.

He has written two books on recent American history, Eugene McCarthy and Mad as Hell, and an eight-book series called Adventures in Time for younger readers. Most recently, he has co-written The Rest is History (2023) and The Rest is History Returns (2024), with fellow historian – and podcast co-host – Tom Holland.

Dominic co-presents (with Tom Holland) the world’s most popular history podcast, The Rest is History, which has tens of thousands of subscribers and more than 100 million downloads. He has presented live history shows to sell-out audiences in New York, Washington, Dublin, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland, as well as venues across Britain, including the West End.

In 2026, Dominic began presenting The Book Club, a podcast about the history of literature, alongside Tabitha Syrett.

Dominic has written and presented several series for television including the four-part series The 70s and The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook for BBC Two. He has presented a number of other series including Tomorrow’s Worlds: The Unearthly History of Science Fiction, Strange Days: Cold War Britain and a four-part series, Let Us Entertain You, in which he explored the extraordinary success of British popular culture over the last century all, on BBC Two.

He has been a book critic for The Sunday Times for almost twenty years and joined The Times as a columnist in 2023. He wrote for BBC History for more than a decade and was previously a columnist for the Evening Standard, the New Statesman and The Daily Mail. Marking their 25th anniversary in 2007, Waterstones named Dominic as one of their 25 Authors for the Future. He was nominated for Critic of the Year in the National Press Awards for 2018, and as Comment Journalist of the Year in the British Journalism Awards for 2021.

Dominic was born in Shropshire and educated at Malvern College before studying at Balliol College, Oxford, the University of St Andrews and Jesus College, Cambridge. He was formerly a history lecturer at Sheffield and senior fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is also a fervent Wolverhampton Wanderers fan.

Adam Boulton is a pioneering broadcaster and veteran political journalist.

He currently presents Times Radio’s flagship Sunday programme, Adam Boulton with Sunday Morning. He is a freelance commentator for Sky News, the BBC, TRT World, and LBC – as well as several international outlets. Adam appears weekly on The Wrap on Sky News. He also speaks and moderates at conferences and private meetings, most recently at the PLMR Insight event.

Adam writes a regular column for The i Paper. He was formerly a weekly columnist for Sky News Online and Reaction Life, and presenter of the Worldview podcast in association with Englesberg Ideas.

Adam’s insatiable appetite for breaking news, ability to think on his feet and innate analytical skills have seen him host countless hours of live television including rolling Election Coverage from the UK, US, Ireland, France and Germany.

Adam was the founding political editor, then editor-at-large at Sky News. Over more than three decades at the network he reported from every continent with a wide-ranging brief, encompassing everything from politics to popular culture. Programmes he presented included the eponymous weekly show, and post-Brexit, the daily All Out Politics programme and podcast. In 2010 Adam was instrumental in brokering a deal with David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg to stage the ground-breaking General Election Leaders Debates, so far the only UK election cycle in which they have taken place. He moderated the second debate in Bristol, the most watched Sky News programme to date. Adam left Sky at the end of 2021, though continues to work freelance for the channel.

In at the beginning of two start-ups, Sky in 1989 and TV Am in 1983, Adam redefined political news coverage in the UK, harnessing developing technology to introduce on-location reportage, reaction and analysis in real time. Unique at the time, this is now the industry standard. Never shy to speak his mind, Adam’s celebrated on-air spat with Alastair Campbell in the aftermath of the 2010 election is still one of the most memorable moments of that campaign. Adam was a popular choice as winner of the Royal Television Society’s supreme Judges’ Award.

Adam has the distinction of having interviewed every UK Prime Minister from Sir Alec Douglas Home to Rishi Sunak. He has covered all major developments in US politics since the Reagan years, from the USA-USSR Summits through to correctly ‘calling’ the election of President Joe Biden live on Sky News. He was in Washington DC again covering the second impeachment of Donald Trump.

Adam served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Lobby, the elite band of senior political journalists in Westminster, he continues to hold a lobby ticket.

His books include Tony’s Ten Years: Memories of the Blair Administration, an acclaimed account of the Blair government, and the equally well received Hung Together: The 2010 Election and the Coalition Government. He was the political columnist for The Sunday Times for seven years and now writes for several leading newspapers and periodicals.

An in-demand public speaker, Adam has delivered keynote lectures for multi-national businesses, economic forums, universities, and media companies.

Although best known for his political programmes, Adam has a wide spectrum of interests and is both well informed and witty on a range of subjects. He was a long-serving governor of King’s College London and Sevenoaks School. His TV portfolio includes appearances on such diverse shows as Have I Got News for You, Newsnight, Celebrity Mastermind and Christmas University Challenge. He is proactive on social media, with over 205k followers on Twitter.

Tim Bouverie is a historian and journalist. His first book Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War was a Sunday Times Bestseller and was shortlisted for the prestigious Orwell Prize. The book has been translated into eleven languages and is regarded as the first major narrative account of appeasement.

Tim’s latest book Allies at War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler published in April 2025 to critical acclaim, with The Guardian calling it “a revelatory study of second world war alliances”, and The Independent writing that it was “A powerful and well-researched study of an alliance that was often fractious or worse”. In March 2026, Allies at War won the Duff Cooper Prize.

Having studied history at Oxford, Tim worked on historical and political documentaries before joining Channel 4 News, where he worked as a political journalist alongside Michael Crick.

During Tim’s four and a half years at Channel 4, he covered almost every significant political event, including two General Elections and the Scottish and EU referendums.

Tim regularly reviews history and politics books for The Times, Spectator, Observer and Daily Telegraph and has written for the Wall Street Journal.

Tim’s second book, Perfect Pitch: 100 pieces of classical music to bring joy, tears, solace,

empathy, inspiration (& everything in between) was published in October 2021.

A confident public speaker, Tim has given lectures and after dinner speeches across the United States and Britain. He is a regular contributor to the Chalke Valley History Festival, where he has interviewed John Major, Peter Mandelson, George Osborne and Alan Johnson.  Recently, Tim has hosted a series of interviews for the Birley Clubs with guests including, Joanna Lumley, Ben Macintyre and Max Hastings.

‘One of the most promising young historians to enter our field for years’ – Max Hastings.

‘Appeasing Hitler is the stunning debut of a major new narrative historian.’ – Professor Margaret Macmillan.

‘Brilliant and sparkling … reads like a thriller. I couldn’t put it down’ – Peter Frankopan.

‘The best account of the subject that I have ever read… Not only dramatic but sparkling and

witty’ – Professor Sir Michael Howard.

Carolyn Quinn has been a much-loved voice on BBC Radio 4 for decades. She started broadcasting “as a hobby”, by getting involved with hospital radio at Charing Cross Hospital. It was an unlikely beginning to a journalism career that has lasted for over five decades and seen her hosting some of the nation’s best known radio programmes. After reading French at the University of Kent, Carolyn became ward clerk at Charing Cross Hospital, London, before joining the BBC Local Radio reporters’ scheme. She moved to the BBC’s political and parliamentary team in 1989 and became a Political Correspondent on TV and radio in 1994.

In 2004 Carolyn joined the presenting line-up on Radio 4’s Today programme, staying with Today until 2008. From 2001 she was also a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4’s PM programme and in 2007 became the main presenter of Radio 4’s The Westminster Hour, stepping down in 2023. She has also presented Radio 4’s overnight election programmes covering referendums and general and local elections. Carolyn has had a front-row seat for all political events of the last twenty-plus years, from Blair to Brexit to COVID-19 and beyond. As a live broadcaster she has also covered a wide range of non-political domestic and foreign affairs topics; she has also fronted documentaries.

Much respected by her peers, Carolyn was the first woman to be elected Chair of the Westminster Press Gallery in 2011.

Today Carolyn regularly contributes to programmes on Sky News, Times Radio, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live.

Carolyn’s skills at chairing and moderating debates mean she’s in demand as a host for book and product launches, front of audience events and Q&As; she is also sought after for and audio projects, including podcasts and audio books, that require a warm and experienced broadcast voice.

Camilla Tominey is Associate Editor covering Politics and Royals at The Daily Telegraph in London.

She is also the resident royal expert on ITV’s This Morning and appears frequently on royal documentaries on BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. She currently presents her own Sunday morning political programme on GB News, The Camilla Tominey Show and co-hosts The Daily T podcast for The Daily Telegraph.

Camilla often takes part in the BBC’s Question Time and Politics Live in her capacity as a member of the Westminster Lobby. Camilla often contributes to documentary films and television programmes in her capacity as Royal expert.

Camilla was formerly Political Editor, Royal Editor and columnist for the Sunday Express. She first started reporting on the British Royal Family in 2005, when she covered the King’s marriage to Camilla Parker-Bowles at the Windsor Guildhall.

Since then, she has reported on all the major Royal stories, including Prince William’s engagement to Kate Middleton, their subsequent marriage and the births of Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. Her world exclusive scoops include breaking the news of Prince Harry’s relationship with Meghan Markle, which was nominated for Scoop of the Year at the 2016 British Press Awards.

Camilla co-anchored both recent Royal Weddings for NBC’s Today Show, contributing to programming across the network that was watched by 55 million viewers.

An authority on Royalty, Camilla has spent the past decade shadowing the Royals at home and on tour. A seasoned interviewer, Camilla has been granted exclusive access to interview many members of the Royal Family including Prince Harry, Zara Phillips, the Duchess of York and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.

Internationally, as well as NBC she has worked with CBC, CTV and Global in Canada, Nine Network Australia, Germany’s ZDF and ARD, RTL in France and countless more broadcasters.

In 2019, she was awarded Journalist of the Year by the McLean-DB Recovery+ Awards, the ‘Oscars’ in the field of recovery from addiction, for her work highlighting the plight of children of alcoholics.

She was nominated Multimedia Journalist of the Year at the 2021 London Press Club Awards, and Journalist of the Year at the Digital Publishing Awards 2023.

Camilla lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and three children.

Daisy McAndrew is a freelance radio and TV presenter, reporter and writer. She has 30 years’ experience reporting on UK politics, economics and business, and the British Royal Family.

Daisy has had senior reporting roles at BBC and ITV News including Chief Political Correspondent, Economics Editor and Special Correspondent. She is a well-known face on American TV screens as NBC News’ Royal Commentator.

She has presented Daily Politics, Weekend News, The Heaven and Earth Show, and The World Tonight (Radio 4) for the BBC, Driving Miss Daisy and the O2 Business Show for LBC, The Lunchtime News and Moral of the Story for ITV, Powerhouse for Channel 4, and a number of programmes for TalkRadio & Talk TV.

Daisy is a regular paper reviewer on the BBC News Channel, BBC Radio 4’s Broadcasting House, and on Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips. She also appears regularly as a panellist on Sky News’ Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge.

Daisy has appeared as a guest on Have I Got News for You?, The Wright Stuff, Jeremy Vine, Loose Women and Despatch Box, among more, and is a familiar face on ITV’s This Morning, Good Morning Britain and Euronews.

Daisy launched her broadcast career in 2001. She had previously spent a decade working in Westminster, beginning, aged nineteen, as an MP’s researcher. During her time in politics, Daisy wrote for many newspapers from the Press Gallery, profiled MPs in The House Magazine (which she ultimately edited), and worked for Lib Dem Leader Charles Kennedy as his Press Secretary. She was a consultant on the BBC’s A-Z of Politics and edited The Politics Companion, published by Chrysalis books.

Daisy is also an accomplished and experienced keynote speaker and corporate facilitator and host, having compered countless awards and conferences for a wide variety of clients – including many large multinationals, banks, trade bodies and charities. Accolades include ‘Daisy is easy to work with and an amazing professional’ and ‘she kept the audience captivated.’ Credits include hosting the AIC UK and MiP Capital Group Conferences, and speaking at the Propertymark One Conference.