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Peter Spencer

Peter Spencer has been a Sky News Political Correspondent since 1991, and since then has been on hand to cover all the major breaking political stories. He has over thirty years experience both as a print journalist on Fleet Street, and as a broadcaster.

Peter’s career began as a reporter on his local paper in Essex. From there he moved to the Fleet Street News Agency, then worked as a reporter and sub-editor on three national newspapers and one of the London evening titles. In the mid-seventies he moved in to radio – as political correspondent on IRN/LBC. While at IRN, Peter was the first journalist to get into the tunnel to interview survivors of the Moorgate Tube Disaster, a feat entirely due to the fact that he was the only journalist with a bicycle.

By 1990 Peter had joined BSB as producer of the satirical programme 'Left, Right, and Centre'. A couple of years later he became a political correspondent with Sky News

With over twenty years’ experience in the political arena, Peter - now a grandfather -is a well-known and highly respected correspondent. His flamboyant personality and uniformly pink range of accessories – including a classic pink Mercedes – ensure that he is one of the most instantly recognisable and best-loved figures on the political circuit.

Although Peter is based in North London he spends much of his spare time in his beachside home on the North Cornwall coast. Peter boasts a diverse ancestry; his mother is half French and his father half Irish. His interests include playing guitar -folk, rock and traditional Irish - classical Theatre, music and literature. Peter has been married more than once and has adult children.