...ading light in revues including the Edinburgh Festival. In 1966 he was chosen by Alan Bennett to appear in his award-winning BBC TV comedy series On the Margin ahead of fellow student, Michael Palin.

In 1967, John became a trainee at the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo. From here he joined the BBC in 1970 as a radio and television news reporter. John’s assignments included covering events in Vietnam, Rhodesia, Northern Ireland, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. He was also senior correspondent in Dublin, Paris and Washington.

For two years he covered European affairs and the first sessions of the directly elected European Parliament. He wrote and presented a BBC TV documentary series called The Europe We Joined. He has also, at times, presented all the main current affairs programmes on Radio 4, including Today and The World at One. In 1981 he became a political correspondent for television and radio

In 1990 John won a Press Guild Award for the Most Memorable Outside Broadcast when Margaret Thatcher interrupted his live report from outside the British Embassy in Paris to announce her participation in the second round of the Conservative Party leadership ballot.

John left the BBC and joined ITN in March 2000 as Political Editor, taking over the role from Michael Brunson who retired after 32 years with ITN. In 2001 John reported on his eighth General Election campaign – his first for ITN. On Election night itself he brought his vast political experience to bear as co-presenter - alongside Jonathan Dimbleby - of ITV’s Election 2001 programme.

Soon after his arrival at ITN John was voted the Best Individual Television Contributor of the Year at the Voice of the Listener and Viewer Awards for 1999.

When he was at ITN John reported on all the key political issues of the day both at home and abroad, including the G8 Summit in Genoa and the EU Summit in Stockholm when John was responsible for breaking the story of Tony Blair’s conversation with Romano Prodi during which he mentioned that the upcoming General Election would be postponed due to foot and mouth. He also reported from Camp David on the first meeting between Blair and President George Bush.

In 2002, John Sergeant’s stood down as Political Editor of ITN after only three years in the job.

He has now returned to his love of light entertainment and has appeared as a guest in a variety of programmes, such as Have I Got News For You (which he has chaired), Room 101 and the News Quiz on Radio 4.

In 2002 John published his memoirs, Give Me Ten Seconds. In 2005 he released a book on Margaret Thatcher – Maggie: Her Fatal Legacy.

John currently hosts Argumental on the Dave channel

Sorry, we do not have a video available for John Sergeant

We have not received any reviews yet for John Sergeant