Chris Cook

Policy Editor of Newsnight and formerly of the Financial Times, Chris Cook is a policy wonk’s journalist. He understands policy detail – particularly on education issues and is good at explaining it. Newsnight gives him a very wide and influential audience and so his pieces on government higher education policy have the ability to make real waves. A former adviser to David Willetts, Cook’s longstanding battles with Michael Gove whilst Gove was Education Secretary and Cook education editor at the FT, won him plaudits and respect in the sector, and not an inconsiderable amount of enemies amongst his former Conservative colleagues.