Christopher Hope is one of the UK’s leading and best known Westminster journalists
He worked for The Daily Telegraph from 2003 to 2023, for the last 17 years he was in the newspaper’s Lobby office. In August 2023 he joined GB News as its Political Editor and Head of Politics.
WINNER
Young Journalist of the Year
International Building Press
1998
Finalist
Scoop of the Year
Scottish Press Awards
2002
WINNER
Scoop of the Year(team)
Press Awards
2010
Finalist
Best Political Podcast
Publisher Podcast Awards
2022, 2023
Biography
About Christopher
Christopher was born in Liverpool in 1971 and has been a journalist all of his life. He started out doing work experience on his local newspapers the Formby Times and Formby and Southport Globe, before a degree in politics at Bristol University led to a postgraduate diploma in magazine journalism at Cardiff University’s prestigious School of Journalism, Media and Culture.
Christopher left Cardiff in 1995 and after a spell working for Brake, the road safety charity, he joined PrintWeek in January 1997, moving to Construction News in September of that year.
In February 1999 Christopher – now married to Sarah – moved to Scotland as Business Correspondent for The Scotsman. He was one of the launch journalists as Chief Business Writer at Business a.m., a newspaper for Scottish business in September 2000.
In January 2002 Christopher moved back to London to work for the Herald (Glasgow), as its City Editor. Christopher joined The Daily Telegraph as Business Correspondent in October 2003.
