Robert Peston

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Career

Peston briefly worked as a stockbroker at Williams de Bro, before deciding to become a writer at The Investors Chronicle in 1983 and joining The Independent newspaper on its launch in 1986. Peston served as Assistant City Editor for the short-lived Sunday Correspondent newspaper from 1989 to 1990 before being named as the Independent's City Editor on Sunday.

He worked with the Financial Times from 1991 to 2000. He was a column editor, Banking Editor, and head of an investigation unit (which he created) at the FT. He memorably fell out with then Downing Street Press Secretary Alastair Campbell, who often mimicked Peston's habit of flicking his hair, and once more responded to a challenging question with the words "Another question from the Peston school of smartarse journalism." "Pest and the Rat" was one of his close friends with fellow journalist Roland Rudd, now PR man, where the two became close friends. Financial Editor (in charge of company and financial reporting) was his last position at the FT.

He joined Quest, the financial company founded by Collins Stewart in 2000, as the editorial director of the online financial analysis service. He also worked as a contributing editor to The Spectator and a weekly columnist for The Daily Telegraph at the same time. He moved from the Telegraph to the Sunday Times, where he wrote a weekly company profile, Peston's People, and then left The Spectator for the New Statesman, where he wrote a weekly column. He joined the Sunday Telegraph as both city editor and assistant editor in 2002. In 2005, he became associate editor.

Peston will replace Jeff Randall as Chief Editor of Business and City coverage on the corporation's iconic television and radio news programs, the BBC News Channel, its website, and Radio 4's Today.

Though no impropriety was implied on Peston's part, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) was reportedly investigating the source of one of Peston's scoops, which revealed that merger negotiations between HBOS and Lloyds TSB were at an advanced stage in the global financial crisis in September 2008. Buyers bought millions of HBOS shares at a deflated price of 96p in the minutes leading up to it; in the hour that followed, they could be sold for 215p. Greg Hands, a Centrist MP, had written to the SFO about this.

Peston appeared as a witness on the House of Commons' Treasury Select Committee on February 4, 2009, alongside Alex Brummer (City Editor, Daily Mail), Sir Simon Jenkins (The Guardian) and Sky News Business Editor Jeff Randall to answer questions regarding the role of the media in financial stability and "whether financial journalists should function under any form of reporting constraints during banking crises."

Peston had a public spat with James Murdoch after the latter's MacTaggart lecture on August 28. He continued to deny news of his phone hacking as a benefit to News International, including allegations that he had become a Murdoch stooge.

Peston is the founder of Speakers for Schools, a pro-bono education venture that brings together speakers from business, politics, television, education, mathematics, science, engineering, and sports to provide free tuition in state schools.

Peston was promoted Economics Editor of BBC News on October 17, 2013, replacing Stephanie Flanders, who had been appointed as JP Morgan Asset Management's Chief Market Strategist. He served as Business Editor for as long as Editor, until his replacement, Kamal Ahmed, took over the newspaper on March 24, 2014.

Peston would leave the BBC to join ITV News as their Political Editor, replacing Tom Bradby, who became the main host of News at Ten on October 4, 2015. Peston made his last appearance on BBC News on November 25, 2015, and his first appearance on ITV's News at Ten on January 10, 2016. In an interview, Prime Minister David Cameron claimed he profited from his father's offshore Blairmore Holdings trust after details of the trust had been revealed in the Panama Papers.

Peston, ITV's latest weekly political discussion show, premiered on Sunday, and it began on May 8th, 2016. Peston, the program's name, was rebranded as Peston in 2018.

Peston apologised for incorrectly tweeting that a Labour activist had punched a Conservative Party adviser in December 2019. Footage showing that this was not true was quickly posted; he later apologised for his remarks and suspended them. Boris Johnson's government had become socialistic, according to him, and it was "more Castro than Castro."

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