Mark Mardell
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Mark Mardell (born 10 September 1957) is the Europe Editor for BBC News. He has provided coverage for each United Kingdom general election since 1992.
Mardell was educated at Epsom College in Surrey, England, and studied politics at the University of Kent. He began his career reporting and reading the news for the commercial station Radio Tees. He then worked at Radio Aire in Leeds before moving to Independent Radio News in London, where he became industrial editor covering the miner's strike and then dodging charging police horses during the Wapping print dispute.
Mardell first appeared on television on Channel 4's The Sharp End. He joined the BBC in 1989 as political correspondent for the BBC Six O'Clock News.
From 1992 to 2000, he worked as political editor for BBC Two's Newsnight programme. During this time he covered many political stories including the fall of Margaret Thatcher's, and later, John Major's government and the rise of Tony Blair and New Labour. Mark then went back to the BBC's Six O'Clock News, before becoming chief political correspondent and moving to the BBC Ten O'Clock News in 2003. He maintained this position until 2005, when he became Europe Editor.
He regularly presented Broadcasting House and The World at One on BBC Radio 4 and presented a humorous review on This Week, BBC One's political chat show.
Mark Mardell is married and has three children: Jake, Lucy and Theo. All three attend the British School of Brussels.
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Mark currently writes a blog on the BBC website about European politics.
