Pippa Crerar was born on 19 June 1976 and is a British journalist who is the political editor of The Guardian.
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Pippa Crerar was previously the Daily Mirrors political editor from 2018 to 2022.
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Pippa Crerar spent her childhood in Edinburgh and in Glasgow, where she attended The Glasgow Academy.
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Pippa Crerar's father ran a printing company and her mother is an academic.
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Pippa Crerar was a Scott Trust Bursary recipient on City University's postgraduate newspaper journalism course.
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Pippa Crerar has previously been deputy political editor at The Guardian, where she was a presenter of the Politics Weekly podcast.
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Pippa Crerar is a presenter of BBC Radio 4's programme The Week in Westminster, and has appeared regularly on The Andrew Marr Show, Politics Live, as well as weekly on Sky News.
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Pippa Crerar was the Daily Mirrors political editor from 2018 to 2022.
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In May 2020, Pippa Crerar revealed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's special adviser Dominic Cummings had broken COVID-19 lockdown rules by travelling from London to County Durham while experiencing symptoms of the disease, and that he had been investigated by police, in a joint Mirror-Guardian investigation.
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In November 2021, Pippa Crerar published an article stating that a Christmas party had taken place in Downing Street in 2020, in contravention of lockdown rules.
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Pippa Crerar became political editor of The Guardian in August 2022, succeeding Heather Stewart.
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Pippa Crerar has garnered recognition for her investigative journalism, notably in November 2022 when she reported that Gavin Williamson instructed a senior Ministry of Defence civil servant to "slit your throat", prompting Williamson's resignation from his government position.
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Pippa Crerar won political journalist of the year and scoop of the year at The Press Awards in 2020 for her story on Dominic Cummings' lockdown breach.
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Pippa Crerar won the Politics Journalism award, Journalist of the Year and Women In Journalism's Woman of the Year at the British Journalism Awards, where the judges said she had done "more than any other to hold our political leadership to account in the face of denials and outright dishonesty".