Adam Boulton

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Adam Boulton has been at Sky News since the launch of the channel in February 1989. He is a pioneer of the innovative use of live analysis and pictures and hosted the historic Sky News debate between the three party leaders ahead of the 2010 General Election.

Adam spent the first 100 days of Barack Obama’s Presidency reporting from the US and gained an exclusive UK broadcast interview during the President’s visit to Ghana.

Adam has interviewed every Prime Minister from Sir Alec Douglas-Home to David Cameron as well as international stars and politicians. His questioning of George W Bush featured in the film “Taking Liberties”.

Adam is a winner of the Royal Television Society’s Judges’ Award and was elected 2007 Chairman of the Parliamentary Lobby. His former Sunday programme was voted “Current Affairs Show Of The Year.”

Adam has appeared on Celebrity Mastermind, Have I Got News For You, Newsnight and Bremner, Bird and Fortune. He has written 'Tony’s 10 Years: Memories of the Blair Administration’ and ‘Hung Together’ about the days after the 2010 General Election.

Adam has Masters degrees from Oxford and Johns Hopkins University. He is married to Anji Hunter; they have five children between them.

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  1. Posted by - Robert Nisbet, Europe Correspondent. There was no shortage of pithy warnings from the EU-philes who logged on to Twitter to make vehement denunciations of David Cameron's referendum pledge. The most senior of the European Union's leaders to o

  2. Posted by - Adam Boulton, Political Editor. If Mr Cameron's plans go wrong, he could either lose the election in 2015 or find himself as the prime minister who led Britain out of the EU after half a century. On the other hand, Mr Cameron is hoping that t

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    Posted by - Adam Boulton, Political Editor. If Mr Cameron's plans go wrong, he could either lose the election in 2015 or find himself as the prime minister who led Britain out of the EU after half a century. On the other hand, Mr Cameron is hoping that t

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    Posted by - Jon Craig, Chief political correspondent. Neither, according to Labour. In response to the Government's glossy Mid-Term Review document: "The Coalition: Together In The National Interest", Labour published a rival: "The Tory-led Government: A

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    Posted by - Adam Boulton, Political Editor. Now we know the answers to the questions I posed for 2012 and I think they do give quite a good summary of what happened and what didn't over the past 12 months. How many Team GB golds? A best-ever haul in both

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    Posted by - Adam Boulton, Political Editor. "Don't worry the British Prime Minister is fine. I've just tucked him up in bed." President Barack Obama on board Air Force One "The Omnishambles Budget." Ed Miliband MP draws inspiration from TV's The Thick Of

  7. Posted by - Adam Boulton, Political Editor. After the 2010 general election, the coalition predicted that their policies would have the economy back in rude health by 2015. Today the Chancellor of the Exchequer yet again revised his growth forecasts down

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    Posted by - Adam Boulton, Political Editor. That hope is now crushed. The party leaders all support the principle recommendations on relations between press and politicians, press and the police, and of the need for a truly independent and powerful regul

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    Posted by - Adam Boulton, Political Editor. In his own words the Prime Minister "successfully defended" Britain's contributions rebate and rejected a deal which "was just not good enough". Mr Cameron also insisted that Britain had not been isolated but w

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    Posted by - Adam Boulton, Political Editor. Turnouts in the first ever Police and Crime Commissioner polls were an all-time low for a national election, averaging less than one in five and falling as low as 12% in some areas. In Newport, one polling stat

  11. Posted by - Adam Boulton, Political Editor. His inclusive message - white or black , straight or gay, red state or blue state "we are one United States of America" - deliberately reprised the great speech which first brought him to national, and internat

  12. The contributors, one from each US state, shed some light on the issues that will determine who wins their state. Using freely available online resources, the 50 Americans each wrote and filmed a video and submitted it to Sky. 50 States: 50 Voices is ava