General Election 2015 – Political Correspondents

Vicki Young is Deputy Political Editor at the BBC. She took up that role in 2020 when John Pienaar left the BBC. She has led BBC coverage into more than four general elections and occasionally serves as a relief presenter…

Norman Smith – born 30th April 1959 in Kensington, London – is a former Assistant Political Editor of the BBC. He began his career in regional newspapers in Birmingham and Bristol, before joining the BBC as a local radio reporter…

Chris Ship is a British journalist and newscaster, working for ITV News. He studied Media and French at Sussex University and was appointed Senior Political Correspondent for the ITN-produced service in 2008 – promoted from Political Correspondent, as part of…

Faisal Islam – born 1978 – is Economics Editor at BBC News. He was the Economics Editor of Channel 4 News, until 1 June 2014, when he was replaced by Paul Mason, the programme’s former Culture and Media Editor. Islam…

Jon Craig joined Sky News from BBC London where he has been Political Editor for the past two years. He was one of the launch editors of BBC London, formally Newsroom South East, in March 2001. A seasoned journalist and…

Andy Bell joined Five News in April 1999 and is the channels Political Editor. Prior to joining Five, Andy worked for the BBC for ten years as the Foreign Affairs Editor for the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4. This…

Tom Bradby is presenter of ITV News at Ten Prior to this he was Political Editor, a position he took up in July 2005. Previously he worked as UK Editor and ITV News’ Royal Correspondent and before that he spent…

James Landale is a correspondent for the BBC. Before joining the BBC in 2003, Landale spent 10 years as a reporter with The Times newspaper, latterly as Assistant Foreign Editor. In 2005 Landale wrote Duel, a book about a 1826…