John Nicolson

Ochil and South Perthshire

John Nicolson is a journalist and broadcaster. He has been a reporter on ‘Newsnight’ and ‘Panorama’. He was a network anchor on ITV News, and presented BBC ‘Breakfast’ for a number of years.

John is the first in his family to go to university, and graduated from the University of Glasgow before going on to Harvard on a scholarship.

He lived in the USA for a number of years and was a speechwriter in the United States before returning home to begin work at the BBC.