Trevor Kavanagh (born 1943) is a journalist and formerly the Political Editor of the Sun newspaper. 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Politics, sometimes defined as the art and science of government. ... An Editor is a person who prepares text—typically language, but also images and sounds—for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. ... The Sun, a tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, has the highest circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world, standing at around 3,200,000 copies daily in late-2004, but at one point in the past decade, almost 5...

Kavanagh has worked in journalism ever since leaving school. He was educated at Reigate Grammar School before leaving school at 17 to work for newspapers in Surrey and later Hereford. In 1965 he emigrated to Australia, working on several newspapers. After a short stint back in the United Kingdom working for the Bristol Evening News Kavanagh returned to Australia to work for the Sydney Daily Mirror (in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. stable) on the political desk. In 1978 he returned to the UK more permanently, taking a job with The Sun. Reigate Grammar School is an independent co-educational day school located in the Surrey town of Reigate. ... Surrey is a county in southern England, part of the South East England region and one of the Home Counties. ... Hereford Cathedral Hereford (pronounced hěr-ə-füd or hěr-i-füd) Welsh: Henffordd (pronounced Henforth) is a city in the west of England, close to the border with Wales and on the River Wye. ... Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KCSG, (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born media proprietor based in New York City who is a major shareholder and the Chairman and Managing Director of News Corporation. ... News Corporation (NYSE: NWS) is a media conglomerate that operates world-wide. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...

Kavanagh became Political Editor in 1983. From that post he strongly backed the newspaper's support of Margaret Thatcher. In March 1997 the newspaper decided to drop its long-term support of the Conservative Party and throw its weight behind Tony Blair's revitalised Labour Party. Kavanagh has said he was against the move but accepted it as part of his job. 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right-of-centre in the United Kingdom and the most successful party in political history based on election victories. ... Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. ... The Labour Party has since its formation in the early 20th century been the principal left wing political party of the United Kingdom (see British politics). ...

Kavanagh is a strong supporter of Israel and his newspaper "has consistently editorialized in favor of (the iraq) war" [1]. There is no doubt Kavanagh also has contacts in high places within the British Government. He claimed an exclusive by reporting the date of the 2001 UK General Election before it had been official announced. Some claim (see the New Statesman article linked below, for example) that there was a deal between the Government and The Sun - the Government would have the newspapers continued support, as long as it gave the newspaper the date of the election first. The United Kingdom is a unitary state and a democratic constitutional monarchy. ... The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ... The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ...

In January 2004, Kavanagh claimed another huge scoop, an unnamed source telephoned Kavanagh with details of the Hutton Inquiry the night before it was officially published. Kavanagh was provided with accurate details of the report and published them ahead of the official release. 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. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Hutton Inquiry was a British judicial inquiry chaired by Lord Hutton, appointed by the British government to investigate the death of a government weapons expert, Dr. David Kelly. ... Rebekah Wade (born May 27, 1968 in Cheshire, England) is a British journalist and newspaper editor. ...

Kavanagh covered his last UK General Election 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. A general election is an election in which all members of a given political body are up for election. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

• New Stateman's article profiling Kavanagh
• A transcript of Kavanagh interviewing George. W. Bush
• London Evening Standard interview with Kavanagh