David Poyser

When he was responsible for a series of four BBC Open University television programmes, broadcast from 2001 to 2010, David Poyser was able to conduct interviews with many leading players in EU-UK relations including Ted Heath and Roy Jenkins. After a twenty year career in journalism and television production winning many Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards, then a period as Chair of the London RTS, he worked in various communications roles for the European Parliament, including with the Socialist Group of MEPs, the London office of the European Parliament, as a creative producer with the Parliament’s audiovisual unit and as a communications consultant to the Labour MEPs. Since returning to the UK, he has continued as a writer on European Affairs, a Blue Badge tour guide and Treasurer of the Labour Movement for Europe. He was Mayor of the London Borough of Islington from 2018-19.