Background
His father is a General Practice and his mother is a surgeon.
His father is a General Practice and his mother is a surgeon.
Iain graduated from Cambridge University in 2003 with a first class degree in History.
Iain writes feature articles for a range of publications, The Daily Telegraph in particular. Until recently, he also wrote a regular column called Loose Ends in Saturday"s Guardian. He has taken part in a number of radio shows, including British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s Today programme and You and Yours.
He has one elder brother.
He went to Eton from 1993-1998. He worked for a year in Westminster - at Vote 2004 and the private office of Michael Howard - before pursuing a full-time career as a journalist.
Vote 2004 was described in the Sunday Telegraph as the "most successful political campaign of all time". Iain was runner-up in the Guardian Student Media as Columnist of the Year.
While at university he also founded and edited The Cambridge Slapper - a popular satirical magazine.