Chris Mullin, author, journalist and former MP, a minister in three departments and chairman of the Home Affairs select committee. His books include four highly acclaimed volumes of diaries,”A Walk-On Part (1994-1999)”, “A View from the Foothills (1999-2005)”, “Decline and Fall (2005-2010)”, and “Didn’t You Use to be Chris Mullin? (2010-22)”. He is the author of four novels, the best known of which, “A Very British Coup”, was made into an award-winning television series. In 2018 he published a sequel, ‘The Friends of Harry Perkins’. In 2016 he published, ‘Hinterland — a Memoir’. He is an accomplished public speaker.
A judge of The Man Booker Prize, 2011.
Chairman of the Heritage Lottery Fund for the North East of England, 2012-17
Member, Northumberland National Park Authority, 2017-2025
Board Chair, Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, 2023 —
Trustee, Chillingham Wild Cattle.