Patrick Wintour

Patrick Wintour (born 1 November 1954) is a British journalist and the diplomatic editor of The Guardian. He was the political editor of The Guardian from 2006 to 2015 and was formerly the newspaper's chief political correspondent for two periods, from 1988 to 1996, and 2000 to 2006. In the intervening period he was the political editor of The Observer. At Westminster, he was a contemporary of Adam Mars-Jones and Chris Huhne.

In October 2015, Wintour moved to a new role as The Guardians Diplomatic Editor. In December Anushka Asthana and Heather Stewart were appointed to succeed him in a job-share arrangement. All three took up their new roles at the beginning of 2016.

Personal life Wintour's second wife is Rachel Sylvester, a journalist for The Times. The couple have two children.

Wintour was formerly married to the journalist Madeleine Bunting, with whom he also has two children.