Iain Macwhirter (born 24 September 1952)[1][2] 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.[3] Following the Scottish independence referendum, he published Disunited Kingdom: How Westminster Won A Referendum But Lost Scotland,[4] 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.[5]
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^"Road to Referendum" Archived 12 February 2015 at archive.today, Cargo Publishing
^"Disunited Kingdom: How Westminster Won A Referendum But Lost Scotland". Archived 19 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Cargo Publishing
^"Tsunami by Iain Macwhirter - Freight Books". Freightbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
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report" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 November 2020. Macwhirter, Iain (2014). Road to Referendum: The Essential Guide to the Scottish Referendum...
losers if the Union fell". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 24 October 2010. Macwhirter, Iain (1 April 2007). "Labour seem determined to giftwrap the Scottish elections...
was being investigated. In December 2007, Sunday Herald columnist IainMacWhirter said it was "hard not to conclude that the police's diligence has been...
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