Peter Oborne

Peter Oborne
Born
Peter Alan Oborne

(1957-07-11) 11 July 1957 (age 67)
Poole, Dorset, England
NationalityBritish
EducationSherborne School
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • author
Political partyConservative (until 2019)[a]

Peter Alan Oborne (/ˈoʊbɔːrn/; born 11 July 1957) is a British journalist and broadcaster. He is the former chief political commentator of The Daily Telegraph, from which he resigned in early 2015.[3] He is author of The Rise of Political Lying (2005), The Triumph of the Political Class (2007), and The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism (2021), and along with Frances Weaver of the 2011 pamphlet Guilty Men. He has also authored a number of books about cricket. He writes a political column for Declassified UK, Double Down News, openDemocracy, Middle East Eye and a diary column for the Byline Times.[4]

He sat as a commissioner for the Citizens Commission on Islam, Participation and Public Life.[5] He won the Press Awards Columnist of the Year in 2012 and again in 2016.[6]

  1. ^ Oborne, Peter (11 December 2019). "As a lifelong Conservative, here's why I can't vote for Boris Johnson". Open Democracy. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  2. ^ Oborne, Peter (12 December 2019). "Boris Johnson wants to destroy the Britain I love. I cannot vote Conservative". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  3. ^ Plunkett, John (17 February 2015). "Peter Oborne resigns, saying Telegraph's HSBC coverage a 'fraud on readers". The Guardian.
  4. ^ "Peter Oborne, Author at Byline Times". Byline Times. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  5. ^ N/A, Citizens UK. "N/A". Citizens UK. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  6. ^ "The 2016 Press Awards". Press Awards Org. Press Awards. Archived from the original on 25 October 2017. Retrieved 22 August 2017.


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