Peter Oborne

Peter Oborne
Oborne at the 2024 Chiswick Book Festival
Born
Peter Alan Oborne

(1957-07-11) 11 July 1957
Poole, Dorset, England
NationalityBritish
EducationSherborne School
Alma materChrist's College, Cambridge
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • author
Political partyConservative (until 2019)

Peter Alan Oborne (/ˈbɔːrn/; born 11 July 1957) is a British journalist and broadcaster. He is the former chief political commentator of The Daily Telegraph, from which he resigned in early 2015. He is author of The Rise of Political Lying (2005), The Triumph of the Political Class (2007), and The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism (2021), and along with Frances Weaver of the 2011 pamphlet Guilty Men. He has also authored a number of books about cricket. He writes a political column for Declassified UK, Double Down News, openDemocracy, Middle East Eye and a diary column for the Byline Times.

He sat as a commissioner for the Citizens Commission on Islam, Participation and Public Life. He won the Press Awards Columnist of the Year in 2012 and again in 2016.