Steve Richards

Steve Richards has been chief political commentator at the Independent since 2000, before which he was a BBC political correspondent and political editor for the New Statesman. He has also written for the Guardian, Observer, Evening Standard and te TLS. He currently presents Week in Westminster on BBC Radio 4 and is a regular guest on the Today programme and Newsnight. He was named political journalist of the year in 2009 by the Political Studies Association.