Michael Crick

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Michael Lawrence Crick (born May 1958) is an English broadcaster, reporter, and author.

He was a founding member of the Channel 4 News Team in 1982 and remained there until joining the BBC in 1990.

He began working on the BBC's Newsnight programme in 1992 and spent as the BBC's senior editor from 2007 until his departure from the BBC in 2011.

Crick then returned to Channel 4 News as the country's political reporter.

He was named as the Best Journalist of the Year at the Royal Television Society's television journalism awards in 2014.

Early life

Crick was born in Northampton, the eldest child of teachers John Crick and Patricia Wright, and his brother, Catherine, Anne, and Beatrice, were born in triplets. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School (then a direct grant grammar school), and in 1975, he was a member of the English Speaking Union Public Speaking Competition. Crick joined the Labour Party at the age of 15, and while revising for his A-levels, he served as the party's election agent, Gerard Collier (later Lord Monkswell).

Crick then studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at New College, Oxford, and graduated with a first-class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He edited Cherwell's student newspaper, wrote both the Oxford Handbook and the Oxford Careers Handbook; chaired the Democratic Labour Club; and was president of the Oxford Union in Michaelmas 1979, replacing Theresa May's future husband Philip.

Personal life

Crick and his partner Lucy Hetherington, an executive TV producer who has produced documentaries and current affairs shows, live in Wandsworth, south London. She is the niece of former Guardian editor Alastair Hetherington. Isabel, the couple's daughter, was born in 2006.

Catherine Crick, his older daughter, was born in 1989, and he also has a younger sister, Catherine, who was his mother from 1985 to 2008. Margaret Archer, a retired television presenter who wrote a biography of Jeffrey Archer's wife Mary in 2005, was a television presenter who screened a book by him.

He has written several books about the team as well as his political writings. He was the organiser of the Shareholders United Against Murdoch movement, which largely opposed the planned takeover of United by BSkyB in 1998 to 1999. He later served as Vice-Chairman of Shareholders United. He said in 2007 that "the BBC weren't particularly happy" at his participation.

Since 2012, Crick has been a lay member of the University of Manchester's board of governors, as well as a member of Manchester University Press's board.

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Career

In 1980, Crick first started working as a trainee journalist for ITN. When the Channel 4 News service was first introduced in November 1982, he was a founding member of the team. Crick was given an award from the Royal Television Society for his coverage of George H. W. Bush's 1988 presidential election against Michael Dukakis.

Crick's first book, a study of the Militant tendency, went to two editions, both published by Faber in 1984 and 1986. In 1985, Scargill and the Miners were published by Penguin.

The Labour Party offered Crick the opportunity to challenge Bootle's safe seat in 1990, but the Labour Party turned down the offer. He served as chair of the Young Fabians from 1980 to 1981.

Crick joined the BBC in 1990, first appearing on Panorama, then becoming a regular reporter on BBC 2's Newsnight in 1992. In its first edition in 1995, Jeffrey Archer: Stranger Than Fiction, his unauthorised biography of the novelist and former politician, appeared in its first edition.

Crick has investigated other politicians as well as written unofficial biographies of several public figures. On the night Mark Mardell filmed Archer's bid to be elected mayor of London in 1999, Archer levelled, on camera, delivering the following apparent threat at Crick: "You wait until I'm Mayor." You'll find out how tough I am. Crick received an RTS Award in 2002 for his Panorama program "Jeffrey Archer: A Life of Lies" on radio after Archer's conviction for perpetrence was postponed in July.

Crick began working on his biography of Sir Alex Ferguson, which was first published in 2002. Ferguson "has discovered a worthy, if not exactly compliant biographer," according to Leo McKinstry of the Daily Telegraph that reporting "fully misplaced" suggestion that Crick will not be objective because of his lifelong support for Manchester United.

The BBC refused to air Crick's report for Newsnight in 'Betsygate', under heavy scrutiny during the Hutton Inquiry. These allegations involved suspected misappropriation of public funds by former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith's private office, as well as alleged payments to his wife Betsy for work she did not do. Following a warning from a Conservative insider with knowledge of Duncan Smith's office, Crick was compelled to look into the allegations in the spring. Sir Philip Mawer and the Duncan Smiths were both found not guilty of any impropriety by Crick, who referred the matter to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. By referring the matter to Mawer, Crick himself said he had been wrong to enter the "political arena."

In Search of Michael Howard, a biography, was published just before the 2005 general election. "It is comprehensive and well-researched, in some respects particularly so," Simon Heffer of The Spectator said. "Michael Crick is in reception" was one of the five most controversial words in the lexicon at that year's election.

In March 2007, Crick succeeded Martha Kearney as the Newsnight's political editor. "We're very fortunate in the freedoms on Newsnight for us to express ourselves as individuals." "We are allowed to do our own thing," he said of the program at the time. He broke the news in June 2008 about Caroline Spelman's abuse of her parliamentary staffing allowance, which she later discovered to have used to pay her nanny.

In July 2011, it was announced that Crick was returning to Channel 4 News as the nation's top political reporter, replacing Cathy Newman under political editor Gary Gibbon. On July 29, he made his last appearance on Newsnight. Allegra Stratton had him replaced. "I was 19 years on Newsnight and 18 of them were extremely joyful, but then about a year ago, they told me that they wanted me to avoid being the political editor and do something else, which was ill-defined." "Crick adheres instead to the noble belief that the reporter's job is to cause as much grief as possible," journalist Nick Cohen wrote in honor of Newsnight and BBC activities shortly after Crick and other journalists' departure. He lives by his creed by bringing scoop after scoop."

Crick's admission that the 'Plebgate' scandal in September 2012 was based on entirely false facts was the subject of a Dispatches program in December 2012. Mitchell resigned after being charged with (then) Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell, and Crick discovered evidence of collusion by the Metropolitan Police.

In Summer 2013, he revealed that a dossier involving suspected misconduct during his campaign for the post in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight had been submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service regarding suspected offences committed during his tenure as Prime Minister Michael Mates' campaign in the 2012 Police and Crime Commissioner elections.

Crick's probe into serious electoral abuses in the South Thanet constituency during the 2017 general election resulted in the conviction of the Conservative Party regional organiser in 2019 of serious spending abuses. A result of his probes has been the tightening of electoral law to discourage local candidates from using profiles of national figures in their literature. The costs of supporting local candidates must be disclosed within local party expenditure reports.

In April 2019, Crick revealed that he had resigned from Channel 4 and ITN, and that he was "looking forward to an exciting new life writing books and other pursuits." He has since joined Mail Plus.

In June 2022, Michael started Tomorrow's MPs, a Twitter account that chronicled the election process of parties in the run-up to the next general election in the hopes of shedding light. Since then, Crick has held several positions and raised concerns about the ways parties vote. This account has 20.4K followers as of now.

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