1. Thomas Adam Babington Boulton was born on 15 February 1959 and is a British journalist and broadcaster who is a regular presenter on Times Radio.
33 Facts About Adam Boulton
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Adam Boulton was formerly editor-at-large of Sky News, and presenter of All Out Politics and Week in Review.
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Adam Boulton is the former political editor of Sky News.
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Adam Boulton is based at Sky News' Westminster studios in Central London.
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Adam Boulton was previously the political editor of TV-am, an ITV early-morning broadcasting franchise holder.
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Adam Boulton held the post of Sky's political editor since being asked to establish its politics team for the launch of the channel in 1989.
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Adam Boulton is the former presenter of Sky News' Sunday Live with Adam Boulton, and presented a regular weekday news and political programme on Sky News, entitled Boulton and Co from 2011 to 2014.
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Adam Boulton comes from a family of bank managers and clerks, with a medical tradition on his mother's side.
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Adam Boulton was educated at Tower House School, a preparatory school in south-west London, at St Andrew's School, Pangbourne, a preparatory school in Berkshire, and at Westminster School, a boarding school for boys in Westminster in Central London, where he took A-levels in English, mathematics, physics and chemistry.
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Adam Boulton then studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and Johns Hopkins University, where he gained degrees in English and international relations.
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In 2013 Adam Boulton received an honorary doctorate of business from Plymouth University.
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Adam Boulton was then political editor for TV-am, where his colleague was Kay Burley who later joined Sky News.
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Adam Boulton was asked to establish the politics team for the launch of Sky News in 1989.
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Adam Boulton thereby began a long tenure as political editor of the news channel.
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Adam Boulton won the Royal Television Society's supreme Judge's Award and was elected the 2007 chairman of the parliamentary lobby.
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Adam Boulton was based in Washington, DC from January 2009, covering the first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency for Sky News.
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On 22 April 2010, during the UK general election campaign, Adam Boulton hosted Sky News' leaders' debate live from Bristol, the second in a series of three televised debates between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg produced, in turn, and on consecutive Thursdays, by ITV News, Sky News and the BBC.
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On 10 May 2010, while covering events on the aftermath of the general election, Adam Boulton lost his composure with former 10 Downing Street Director of Communications Alastair Campbell, defending his impartiality in a live on-air interview after Campbell accused Adam Boulton of political bias in favour of the Conservatives.
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Adam Boulton shouted at Campbell: "Don't tell me what I think".
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Adam Boulton was accused of bias for the way he questioned Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, it was claimed in contravention of the pre-established rules, during the leaders' debate hosted by Sky News.
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On 20 January 2011 Adam Boulton interviewed Alastair Campbell on Sky News, ahead of Tony Blair's appearance in front of the Iraq Inquiry.
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Adam Boulton left the role of Sky News' political editor before the 2014 Scottish independence referendum to become its Editor-at-large.
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Adam Boulton had been political editor for 25 years and five general elections.
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Since 2017, Adam Boulton has presented All Out Politics on Sky News, from 9 am to 11 am, Monday to Friday.
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Adam Boulton maintains a blog on the Sky News website and presents Week in Review.
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Adam Boulton has written for newspapers and magazines including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Spectator, the New Statesman and The Independent.
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Adam Boulton has been a guest of programmes such as Newsnight, Bremner, Bird and Fortune and Have I Got News for You.
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Adam Boulton has interviewed every British Prime Minister from David Cameron back to Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
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On 10 November 2021, Adam Boulton announced he would be leaving Sky News at the end of the year.
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Adam Boulton continues to be a freelance political contributor to Sky News, GB News and Talk TV.
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Adam Boulton divorced his first wife The Honourable Kerena Anne Adam Boulton after his affair with Tony Blair's spin doctor Anji Hunter became front page tabloid news in 2002.
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Adam Boulton married Hunter at St James's Church, Piccadilly, on 22 July 2006.
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Adam Boulton says he has not voted for any party since becoming a journalist.