Charles Moore (journalist)

Charles Moore
Moore speaking at Policy Exchange in 2013
Born	Charles Hilary Moore (1956-10-31) 31 October 1956 (age 60) Hastings, Sussex, United Kingdom
Education	Eton College Trinity College, Cambridge
Occupation	Journalist, Editor
Spouse(s)	Caroline Baxter
Children	2

Charles Hilary Moore (born 31 October 1956) is an English journalist and a former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator. He still writes for the first and last of these publications.

The first volume of his authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher appeared in April 2013 shortly after she died.

Moore was born in Hastings. He is from a Liberal family. His mother was a county councillor for the Liberal Party in Sussex, and his father Richard was a leader writer on the News Chronicle, who unsuccessfully stood for the party at several general elections. While at Eton in 1974, he wrote about his membership of the Liberals in the Eton Chronicle, and also about his taste for Real Ale. During this period he was already a friend of Oliver Letwin. Moore remained a Liberal into his early twenties.

Moore went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, at the same time as Letwin. He had also known Nicholas Coleridge at Eton, who was also at Trinity. He read English (2.1) and History (2.1) and was awarded a BA in 1979. By now an advocate of architectural conservation, he became an admirer of the work in this field of (then) poet laureate Sir John Betjeman.

In 1979 he joined The Daily Telegraph as a political correspondent, and, after a short period on the 'Peterborough' gossip column, was writing leaders within two years by the age of 24. In 1982 Moore wrote a pamphlet for the Salisbury Group, entitled The Old People of Lambeth (1982).

Two years after joining The Spectator as a political columnist, he became the magazine's editor in 1984, remaining there until 1990. Moore co-edited A Tory Seer: The Selected Journalism of T. E. Utley, which was published in 1989.