Peter's latest book, Political Animals, is out in hardback now and will be released in paperback on 17th September 2026.  Five Prime Ministers contribute to Peter's tale of the furry inhabitants of Westminster and Washington, lifting the lid on Larry the Downing Street cat and the many other felines, canines and others who see everything but can be relied upon not to leak (at least to the media).

He also wrote the acclaimed bestseller The Secret Life of Special Advisers, a hilarious memoir about his time working in government, lifting the lid on the much-misunderstood world of government ministerial advisers.

Peter was appointed by two Prime Ministers to be special adviser in four government departments to four Cabinet Ministers, working in government for three-and-a-half years in the May and Johnson administrations.  He worked in the Northern Ireland Office for James Brokenshire and Dame Karen Bradley, the Home Office for Amber Rudd, the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government for James Brokenshire again, and at the Ministry of Justice for Sir Robert Buckland.
 
He also worked on two successful General Elections. 

Now a presenter on the Talk radio and TV network, and occasionally on Times Radio, Peter has also undertaken hundreds of media interviews as a political commentator and written extensively on UK and Northern Irish politics.  
 
He wrote his first published article aged 12 for The Portadown Times and has been published as a professional journalist in newspapers including The Belfast Telegraph, Irish News and News Letter in Belfast, the Cape Argus in Cape Town and a variety of London publications including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The i newspaper, The Spectator, Jewish News and Your Cat magazine.  
 
He was also Editor of The Oxford Student newspaper at the University of Oxford and won The Philip Geddes Prize for the most promising undergraduate journalist at the University.  
 
He started his broadcasting career as a researcher at Newsnight booking guests and writing questions for Jeremy Paxman, working for the BBC in Washington DC, New York and Belfast.  He has also worked for ITV, Sky News and Monocle 24 Radio. 

Peter is a Senior Visiting Fellow on the country's leading journalism course at City University, London.  He teaches a course called Political Headlines, and has had guests speak to his students including the BBC Political Editor, Editor of Channel 4 News, former Cabinet Ministers, Number 10's Director of Communications and the Director of Communications at the Ministry of Defence. 

Peter works part-time via his company Jack Clyde Consulting Ltd as consultant to Atticus Partners and the Peninsula group, including its subsidiary Health Assured, amongst other small consultancy projects.  

He holds an MA (Hons) in modern history and politics from the University of Oxford, where he attended St Hugh's College, and an MSc from Columbia School of Journalism in New York, where he was Alistair Cooke Fulbright Scholar.
 
He has been a non-executive director of a housing company in the past and done work for various consultancies.  He was the volunteer chairman of The Philip Geddes Trust for a decade and was on the board of the MS Society in Northern Ireland.  He has volunteered for nearly a decade as a independent visitor/mentor to a teenager in the care system.
 
He is originally from Richhill, Northern Ireland, and attended Hardy Memorial Primary School, Clounagh Junior High School, where he was head boy, and Portadown College.
 
He lives in London with his rescue cat, Jack.

In 2015, Jack the rescue cat came into Peter's life when they lived in a house share.  Jack was a rescue from The Mayhew rescue shelter in London.  In 2021, Peter and Jack moved out and now live together in a flat in London, where they are best buddies. 

Peter's book, Political Animals, is dedicated to Jack, as well as Clyde, Peter's cat when he was a teenager, who is always remembered, loved and missed.