Michael Crick has been following British politics as a TV and radio broadcaster for almost 40 years. He was political editor of Newsnight from 2007 to 2011; and political correspondent of Channel 4 News from 2011 to 2019. He has won four Royal Television Society awards, including Specialist Journalist of the Year in 2014 and 2018. He is the author of eight previous books, including Jeffrey Archer: Stranger than Fiction and The Boss: The Many Sides of Alex Ferguson.