George Parker is Political Editor of the Financial Times.

He first started reporting British politics at Westminster in 1990, shortly before the fall of Margaret Thatcher, and has reported on every prime minister since then.

He became Political Editor of the FT in September 2007 and has written extensively about Gordon Brown’ s rollercoaster years as prime minister and the government’s handling of the banking and economic crisis.

Previously George was the FT’s Brussels bureau chief from 2002-2007, covering the evolution of the enlargement of the European Union, the political crisis caused by the Iraq war and the painful gestation of the Lisbon treaty.

He started his career as a local newspaper reporter in Barnstaple for the Western Morning News and became that paper’s lobby correspondent in 1990 at the age of 24. He moved to the FT’s political team in 1995, covering the last years of John Major’s government and the election of Tony Blair. He subsequently worked as the FT’s UK news editor from 1999 until his move to Brussels.

As well as writing for the FT, he is a regular broadcaster on British and European political issues.

George was born in Guildford in 1966 and spent his teenage years on a farm in Devon. He is married to Gabrielle and has three young children. His interests include football, cricket, walking and popular music. - -

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