Peter Cardwell

About

I am a presenter on the Talk network on Fridays 4pm to 7pm and Sat & Sun 10am to 1pm and cover politics for the station at Westminster. I also sometimes present programmes on Times Radio, usually Times Radio Weekend Breakfast. I also comment on politics on a variety of broadcast and print outlets and wrote a book called The Secret Life of Special Advisers. I also work part-time via my company Jack Clyde Consulting Ltd as consultant to Atticus Partners, Bradshaw Advisory and Peninsula.I have had a unique career in both the highest levels of Government and broadcast journalism. I was appointed by two successive Prime Ministers as Special Adviser to two Northern Ireland Secretaries, a Home Secretary, Housing Secretary and then the Lord Chancellor & Justice Secretary, delivering tactical and strategic advice, crisis management and media handling. I have insight and experience of delivering Government priorities, balancing diplomatic, political, domestic and economic factors.I have advised Cabinet ministers based on a 10-year journalistic and three-and-a-half year political career, managing budgets, complex logistical, legal, political, strategic and editorial issues by challenging internal thinking. I have undertaken hundreds of media interviews as a political commentator, hosted numerous events and panels, and prepared senior figures — including the Prime Minister — for media interviews.I have worked as a presenter, reporter and producer in London, Washington, New York, Belfast and Cape Town in a journalism career spanning nearly two decades.I have board membership experience on a FTSE 250 company, have been on interview panels and have voluntarily chaired a trust with a significant endowment. I also volunteer with a young person in the care system.I was a Fulbright Scholar at an Ivy League university and hold an MA (Hons) from Oxford.