Career
Journalism
Christopher's Career
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.
Christopher worked in The Telegraph’s City Office between 2003 and 2006 when he joined the Telegraph’s Lobby team as its Whitehall Editor, moving back to the newsroom in September 2007 as its Home Affairs Correspondent, soon promoted to Home Affairs Editor.
In 2009 he moved back to the Lobby as Whitehall Editor, before being promoted to Senior Political Correspondent, Chief Political Correspondent, Assistant Editor (Politics) and then Associate Editor (Politics) over the following years. He has edited The Daily Telegraph’s Peterborough diary since 2021.
Christopher joined GB News as its Political Editor and Head of Politics in August 2023.
Journalism
Christopher's Scoops
In the City Office Christopher made his name with a number of exclusives about British industry before moving to the political team.
As a part of the Telegraph’s Lobby team, he was one of the reporters who helped to break the MP Expenses’ scandal in 2009 which led to dozens of MPs quitting Parliament and the resignation of the Commons Speaker Michael Martin.
Also in 2009 he disclosed for the first time the full Crown Prosecution Service file on who could be prosecuted over the murder of WPc Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy in London’s St James’s Square in 1984.
In 2010 and 2011, he was one of the leading journalists in the team which disclosed details of UK and US diplomatic cables which had been obtained by the Wikileaks website.
In 2012, Christopher’s persistent questioning of officials at 10 Downing St led to David Cameron, the Prime Minister, admitting that he had ridden a police horse with News Corp chief executive Rebekah Brooks at the height of the phone hacking scandal.
In 2014 he became the only journalist to ask French President Emmanuel Macron about his affair with French actress Julie Gayet at a televised press conference at RAF Brize Norton.