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    • Bernard Ponsonby

    British journalist and politician

    Bernard Ponsonby is a Scottish broadcast journalist for regional news and current affairs programming for STV. He joined the station in 1990 and was appointed political editor in 2000, following the retirement of longstanding political editor Fiona Ross.

    Since 2019, Ponsonby has been Special Correspondent for STV News.

    Early life

    Ponsonby was born in Castlemilk, Glasgow. He was educated at Trinity High School, Rutherglen, and Strathclyde University. He has been a supporter of Celtic F.C.

    since boyhood.[2]

    Political career

    Ponsonby joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP) as a young man, and upon leaving university was briefly employed as a researcher for the former MP Dr Dickson Mabon.[2] After the SDP merged with the Liberal Party in 1988, he stood for the Liberal Democrats – then styled as the "Democrats" – in that year's Govan by-election, losing his deposit with a 4.1% share of the vote.[3