2018 Lecture

Laura Kuenssberg

Political editor of the BBC

The 2018 Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture was delivered by BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.
After studying at Edinburgh University and in America, Laura began her career in journalism working for local radio and television in Glasgow. She joined the BBC in 2000 and began covering politics for the corporation in 2003, becoming Chief Political Correspondent in 2009. In 2011 she left to become business editor of ITV News before returning in 2014.

In 2015 she was announced as the successor to Nick Robinson as the BBC’s political editor. A highly regarded journalist within the BBC and the wider media she has also attracted controversy, becoming a source of anger for left-wing online trolls who deemed her to be biased. This led to the decision for her to attend the Labour Party’s 2017 conference with a bodyguard, a situation that drew wide comment including from the Prime Minister in the weeks that followed.