Chris was a contributing editor at Tortoise before leaving to become a senior reporter at the FT, where he has worked before as a leader writer, education correspondent and comment editor. Prior to Tortoise Chris was the public policy editor on BBC Newsnight from 2014 to 2019. He won three Royal Television Society awards for work ranging from an investigation into a fraudulent charity that took £47m from the government through to the Grenfell Tower fire.