Michael Crick Political Correspondent

Michael Crick is Political Correspondent for Channel 4 News

Working for Channel 4 News represents something of a homecoming for Michael, who was a founding member of the Channel 4 News team when the programme launched in 1982.Then, he was Washington correspondent. He joined the BBC in 1990, working first on Panorama and, from 1992, on Newsnight. Michael has won two RTS awards - one for his coverage of the 1988 US election, and one for a special Panorama programme on the life of Jeffrey Archer.

"I have always admired Gary Gibbon's journalism and it's fantastic to be returning to my ITN roots to join him and the rest of the Channel 4 News team," says Michael.

He has written several books - including biographies of Alex Ferguson, Jeffrey Archer and Michael Howard. Richard Nixon famously said that whilst visiting the Oxford Union in 1978, his toughest question came from Michael, then a student.

The latest from Michael Crick

Knife-edge lead for Yes campaign in Irish referendum
30 May 2012
What if Ireland does vote No tomorrow? Enda Kenny repeated to me today that unlike the referendums on Nice and Lisbon, Irish voters won't be given a second chance to change their minds.
Politics
Leveson inquiry: News Corp's close links to Downing St
25 May 2012 Michael Crick
On the day David Cameron announced the establishment of an inquiry into media ethics in the midst of the phone hacking scandal, his communications director had dinner with a News Corp lobbyist.
UK
Protests over 'tyrants' at Queen's Jubilee lunch
18 May 2012 Channel 4 News
Human rights activists are outraged that the King of Bahrain will lunch with the Queen today at Windsor Castle - after his regime was accused of a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy campaigners.