Political Animals - Hardcover

Peter Cardwell served as a special adviser in the UK

government for three and a half years. He worked for four

Cabinet ministers in four departments: the Northern

Ireland Office; the Home Office; the Ministry of Housing,

Communities & Local Government; and the Ministry of

Justice. After being educated in Northern Ireland, he

studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, before winning a

Fulbright scholarship to the Columbia School of Journalism,

New York. He was a broadcast journalist for ten years,

working for the BBC in London, Washington DC, New York

and Belfast, as well as for Sky News, Channel 5 News, UTV

and ITV's Good Morning Britain. He is a frequent political

commentator for the UK and international broadcast and

print media. In his spare time, he volunteers as chairman of

a trust for student journalists, mentors a teenager in the

care system and spends time with his rescue cat, Jack. He

lives in London and Richhill, County Armagh.