Peston worked at the Daily Telegraph before joining the BBC, where he covered the financial crisis and broke the story about the collapse of Northern Rock in 2007. [8], In late 2005, it was announced that Peston would succeed Jeff Randall as BBC Business Editor, responsible for business and City coverage on the corporation's flagship TV and radio news programmes, the BBC News Channel, its website and on Radio 4's Today. In the minutes before the broadcast, buyers purchased millions of HBOS shares at the deflated price of 96p; in the hour following it, they could be sold for 215p. Bushfire koalas going back to the wild. He switched to ITV in 2013 and now earns a reported £300,000 a year – but the high-pressure move came just after the death from cancer of his beloved wife Siân. [46], His family is of Jewish descent. Britain could face a 'double-dip' recession, a million extra unemployed and a record borrowing deficit of... Second lockdown WILL end next month, Boris Johnson insists as he faces a major Tory rebellion over new... Will the Teflon Donald come up Trumps again? [30], Peston's delivery on radio and television news has attracted comment. © 2020 BBC. Having been sent to the local comprehensive by his father, a Labour peer, he went to university in Oxford and Brussels. ‘All my life I spoke to him about football and politics, but he died before the Brexit vote, before Donald Trump was elected,’ says Peston, who’s had a front-row seat on it all, frequently breaking big news stories, but has desperately missed his dad’s wisdom. Peston married the writer Siân Busby in 1998, with whom he had a son, Maximilian.

[27] His blog won the digital media category in the Private Equity and Venture Capital Journalist of the Year Awards.

[4] Peston has described himself as "culturally Jewish". ‘There were really terrible times over those five years when she was suffering the cancer.
[4] In 2018, the programme moved to a Wednesday night timeslot, rebranded as Peston. I have no idea idea whether I will ever go back, and I never think about it – because I adore ITV.’, Robert Peston grills Boris Johnson for Peston On Sunday, He now has a new partner, journalist Charlotte Edwardes. Initially, he said falling in love again "definitely" felt like he was betraying his wife, adding: "I did feel desperately guilty.". It details the rivalry between Brown and the then Prime Minister Tony Blair.

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After the burglary, Mr Peston, who was then business editor at the BBC, was hospitalised. I think I did have post-traumatic stress for a period. I took about six weeks off, but fortunately I have made a full recovery. France with Robert Peston, This World – BBC Two", "The Great Chinese Crash?

[25] Also, his scoop on Lloyds TSB's takeover of HBOS won the Royal Television Society's "Scoop of the Year" award. [19], On 4 October 2015, it was announced that Peston would leave the BBC to join ITV News as their Political Editor, replacing Tom Bradby who became the main presenter of News at Ten.

He sees Brexit as a sign of a much bigger mess: the way globalisation has ruined lives and in this country all the wealth and power have been put into the hands of an elite. So it’s a surprise when you discover that you can fall in love.’. ‘I love the BBC. After a domestic burglary in December 2012, Peston made an appeal for the return of rings that had belonged to his late wife. "[citation needed], Peston married the writer Siân Busby in 1998, with whom he had a son, Maximilian. US Election 2020: Americans choose between Trump and Biden, Vienna shooting: Austria hunts suspects after 'Islamist terror' attack. Peston said: "It's an incredibly distressing time, especially so soon after losing Siân. ‘My boys Simon and Max do by far the best and funniest impersonations of me – although David Cameron used to do me before he became prime minister and I am told he was pretty convincing.’. In an interview with .css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link{color:#3F3F42;}.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited{color:#696969;}.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited{font-weight:bolder;border-bottom:1px solid #BABABA;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link:hover,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited:hover,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link:focus,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited:focus{border-bottom-color:currentcolor;border-bottom-width:2px;color:#B80000;}@supports (text-underline-offset:0.25em){.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited{border-bottom:none;-webkit-text-decoration:underline #BABABA;text-decoration:underline #BABABA;-webkit-text-decoration-thickness:1px;text-decoration-thickness:1px;-webkit-text-decoration-skip-ink:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;text-underline-offset:0.25em;}.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link:hover,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited:hover,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link:focus,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited:focus{-webkit-text-decoration-color:currentcolor;text-decoration-color:currentcolor;-webkit-text-decoration-thickness:2px;text-decoration-thickness:2px;color:#B80000;}}the Sunday Times magazine, Peston - who is now in a new relationship - said he had discussed his guilt with a grief counsellor. I always will. In The Guardian, Polly Toynbee said of it: "Reading Peston's book, you can only be flabbergasted all over again at how Labour kowtowed to wealth, glorified the City and put all the nation's economic eggs into one dangerous basket of fizzy finance. During his time as Political Editor, he memorably fell out with the then Downing Street Press Secretary Alastair Campbell, who regularly mimicked Peston's habit of flicking back his hair, and once responded to a difficult question with the words: "Another question from the Peston school of smartarse journalism. He would give a share of company profits to the workers and enforce the right to belong to a union. The ITV political editor's wife, writer Sian Busby, died of lung cancer in September 2012, aged 51. On 4 February 2009, Peston appeared as a witness at the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee, along with Alex Brummer (City Editor, Daily Mail), Lionel Barber (editor of the Financial Times), Sir Simon Jenkins (The Guardian) and Sky News Business Editor Jeff Randall to answer questions on the role of the media in financial stability and "whether financial journalists should operate under any form of reporting restrictions during banking crises. They met at a Christmas party, and had previously worked together briefly. ‘The book is essentially a conversation with him: the conversation we were never able to have.’, The ITV political editor and host of Peston On Sunday Robert Peston says he would never have voted for Brexit or Trump but he understands why so many did. For a long time after Siân died, I didn’t think it would be possible. The big news, when we meet at his publisher’s office, is that Peston doesn’t put a voice on for the cameras, he talks like that in real life. .css-8h1dth-Link{font-family:ReithSans,Helvetica,Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-weight:700;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;color:#FFFFFF;}.css-8h1dth-Link:hover,.css-8h1dth-Link:focus{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;}Read about our approach to external linking. He’s been private about his feelings until now, but was it a surprise? The dramatic jump in UK coronavirus cases from 7,000 reported on Friday, to just under 13,000 on Saturday to a fraction below 23,000 on Sunday is not a dire as it seems - though it is NOT … ‘WTF’ (Hodder & Stoughton) is out now, priced at £20. [4][8], From 1991 to 2000, he worked for the Financial Times.

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I typed up the last book that she’d written, which was left in note form, then I went back to work and I made sure that Max had the support he needed, because it was his bloody GCSE year. Scientists develop a 'nanoparticle' COVID-19 vaccine that could trigger a 10-times stronger immune response... Coronavirus mutation that has become the dominant strain worldwide may be MORE contagious than the original... Is Justin Welby losing faith with lockdown? His father would be proud. He became known to a wider public with his reporting of the late-2000s financial crisis, especially with his scoop on the Northern Rock crisis. Speaking to the Sunday Times, Peston, 58, said he was now in a relationship with Charlotte Edwardes, diary editor of London's Evening Standard. Peston would strip the charitable status from public schools such as Eton and put pressure on Oxford and Cambridge to help the disadvantaged. Three elders reveal what it takes to be a leader. Video, What does developing a Covid-19 vaccine look like? While no impropriety on the part of Peston was implied, it was claimed in The Observer[12] on 19 October 2008, that the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) could enquire into the source of one of Peston's scoops which, in September 2008, in the fraught atmosphere of the global financial crisis, revealed that merger talks between HBOS and Lloyds TSB were at an advanced stage. ‘I don’t really care about material things but they’d stolen her rings.

[6], Peston briefly worked as a stockbroker at Williams de Broë,[7] becoming a journalist in 1983 at the Investors Chronicle and joining The Independent newspaper on its launch in 1986. Robert Peston has revealed that he thought he would ‘never find love again’ after his wife Siân died from lung cancer at the age of 51. At the Royal Television Society's Television Journalism Awards 2008/09 Peston won both "Specialist Journalist of the Year" and "Television Journalist of the Year" for his coverage of the credit crunch and a string of 'scoops' associated with it. He became associate editor in 2005. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Peston's Politics. ‘There are strong views in this book but I would argue they are based on empirical evidence. "She was the only person that I came across around that period who literally knew almost nothing about the BBC stuff or Sian or anything," he added. The psychological devastation of a second lockdown will be too much for many to bear, writes consultant... Test and Trace is struggling because people do not want to pick up their phone to unknown numbers,... What will lockdown mean for the property market? About a month or so after that I got quite ill.’, He was hospitalised. At the same time, he became a contributing editor of The Spectator and a weekly columnist for The Daily Telegraph. ‘I just wasn’t remotely in the territory where I could have any kind of relationship.

I just kept ferociously busy.’, Robert Peston with his late wife, Siân Busby, in 2006, Then he just crashed.

The 57-year-old host of Peston On Sunday also speaks frankly of the moment of Siân’s death in September 2012. VideoWhat does developing a Covid-19 vaccine look like? .css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:link{color:inherit;}.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:visited{color:#696969;}.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:link,.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:visited{-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:link:hover,.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:visited:hover,.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:link:focus,.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:visited:focus{color:#B80000;-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;}.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:link::after,.css-1hlxxic-PromoLink:visited::after{content:'';position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0;z-index:2;}Peston's show moves to Wednesday nights, US votes in most divisive contest in decades. The couple were married for 14 years and had one son together.

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