Adam Boulton

Career Early roles Boulton had early roles at IPS News and the BBC. He worked as a journalist in the parliamentary lobby, as political editor for TV-am, where his colleague was Kay Burley who also later joined Sky News. It was during the 1987 general election that he was punched by Denis Healey after Anne Diamond asked Healey about his wife using private healthcare; the incident was witnessed by gossip columnist Nigel Dempster.

Sky News Boulton was asked to establish the politics team for the launch of Sky News in 1989. At the time both Labour and the Conservatives were trying to broker a deal with the Liberal Democrats aimed at forming a coalition government. A similar disagreement occurred later on that evening in an exchange with Ben Bradshaw. The media regulator Ofcom received several hundred complaints about the Campbell incident from viewers. During the campaign, he had been asked to calm down by Peter Mandelson when he questioned him about possible spending cuts that the Financial Times believed would have to be made following the election. He was also accused of bias for the way he questioned Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, it was claimed in contravention of the pre-established rules, during the leaders' debate hosted by Sky News. Ofcom rejected the complaints. On 20 January 2011, Boulton once again interviewed Alastair Campbell on Sky News, ahead of Tony Blair's appearance in front of the Iraq Inquiry. Both apologised about the incident and shook hands at the end of the interview.

Boulton left the role of Sky News' political editor before the 2014 Scottish independence referendum to become its Editor-at-large. He had been political editor for 25 years and five general elections. In an interview with The Times, he explained: "It looks like the direction which Sky News wants to go over the next few years is not one that's a particularly good fit for me. Sky News head John Ryley believes the future of news is digital, is on the platform for phones and is very strongly based around data journalism. At that point you do start thinking".

Post Sky In April 2022, Boulton became a regular panellist on the TalkTV programme 'The News Desk with Tom Newton Dunn'.

Boulton presents a Sunday show between 10 am and 1 pm for Times Radio alongside Kate McCann.

Boulton continues to be a freelance political contributor to Sky News, GB News and Talk.

He says he has not voted for any party since becoming a journalist.

In May 2026, Boulton said GB News should lose its broadcasting licence, arguing that the channel had committed "clear violations" of Ofcom's due impartiality rules.

Personal life Boulton married The Honourable Kerena Ann Mond, the sister of Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett, the former Labour minister and environmentalist, and the eldest daughter of Julian Edward Alfred Mond, 3rd Baron Melchett, the first chairman of the British Steel Corporation (BSC), and his wife Sonia Melchett, the writer and socialite.

After his affair with Tony Blair's spin doctor Anji Hunter became front page tabloid news in 2002, they divorced. Boulton married Hunter at St James's Church, Piccadilly, on 22 July 2006. Both have children from previous marriages.