Iain Macwhirter

Iain Macwhirter (born 24 September 1952) is a Scottish political journalist. He is a political commentator for several newspapers, an author and documentary film and radio presenter and a former Rector of Edinburgh University. He has worked at both the UK Parliament and Scottish Parliament, presenting the BBC2 programmes ''Westminster Live'', ''Scrutiny'' and, from 1999, the BBC TV programme ''Holyrood Live'' from the Scottish Parliament.

In 2013, he published ''Road to Referendum'', which accompanied a three-part television series of the same name on STV and ITV. Following the Scottish independence referendum, he published ''Disunited Kingdom: How Westminster Won A Referendum But Lost Scotland'', a retrospective on his experiences as a journalist documenting the campaign. In 2015, his book ''Tsunami'', about the SNP's victory in the 2015 general election, was published by Freight Books. Provided by Wikipedia