Trevor Michael Thomas Kavanagh (born 19 January 1943) is a journalist

Journalist

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 and formerly the Political

Politics

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 Editor

Editing

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 of the Sun

The Sun (newspaper)

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newspaper

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Trevor Kavanagh was educated at Reigate Grammar School

Reigate Grammar School

Reigate Grammar School is an independent co-educational day school located in the town of Reigate, Surrey, United Kingdom. Intake is from 11 to 18, with the majority of its pupils entering at the age of 11, and others entering at 13 and 16.- History :...

 before leaving school at 17 to work for newspapers in Surrey

Surrey

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 and later Hereford

Hereford

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. In 1965 he emigrated to Australia

Australia

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, working on several newspapers.

After a short stint back in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 working for the Bristol Evening Post

Bristol Evening Post

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Kavanagh returned to Australia to work for the Sydney Daily Mirror (in Rupert Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch

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's News Corp. stable) on the political desk. In 1978 he returned to the UK more permanently, taking a job with The Sun. He was named as political editor in 1983.

In January 2004, Kavanagh claimed a huge scoop. An unnamed source telephoned Kavanagh with details of the Hutton Inquiry

Hutton Inquiry

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 the night before it was officially published. Kavanagh was provided with accurate details of the report and published them ahead of the official release. -
He was however less accurate when on the BBC 5Live 4th June 2009 he asserted that Gordon Brown would be out of office the next week.Shortly afterwards he was named as the 8th most influential individual in the British media - behind his proprietor Murdoch, but ahead of his editor, Rebekah Wade

Rebekah Wade

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Kavanagh covered his last UK General Election

General election

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 as political editor in May 2005. In December 2005 it was announced that he was to "move upstairs" in the New Year to the post of associate editor, with the job of political editor going to his long-serving deputy, George Pascoe-Watson

George Pascoe-Watson

George Pascoe-Watson is a British journalist. He was political editor of the Sun newspaper, succeeding Trevor Kavanagh in January 2006. He now works for the Portland Communications agency founded by Tony Blair's former spin doctor Tim Allan in 2001.-Early life:Pascoe-Watson was born in Edinburgh...

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