WI: British journalists as politicians

Most political journalists have aspired to be politicians earlier in their lives, or have held strong political views. Here are some examples:

1) Andrew Neil worked as a research assistant for the Conservative party before joining The Economist as a journalist in 1973 at the age of 24. Is there any chance that he could become a prominent Conservative politician? If he keeps working for the Conservatives he could be elected as an MP in 1979, and could achieve ministerial office in the mid to late 1980s. By the 1990s, Neil could be a top cabinet/shadow minister. He's certainly knowledgeable about economics, though he might be too much of a cultural outsider within the Conservative party of that time.

2) Nick Robinson was President of the Oxford Conservatives, as well as national chairman of the Young Conservatives in the mid-1980s. Maybe he steers away from journalism and goes directly into politics, working for the Conservative Research Department? He coud enter Parliament sometime in the 1990s, and could be a leading figure in the party around now.

3) Andrew Marr had a reputation for being very left-wing at Cambridge, but later questioned his assumptions when working for The Economist in the 1980s. Perhaps he could work for the Labour party in the 1980s, and then become an MP in the 1990s? During the 2000s he could become a key figure.

4) Finally, Jeremy Paxman is probably the least likely out of these, but was briefly a member of the Labour club at Cambridge. I could imagine him as a intellectual Croslandite figure during the 1980s.

Are there any other examples of potential politicians? Conversely, are there any politicians who could become career journalists? Recently, both Boris Johnson and Michael Gove had careers in journalism before entering Parliament.
 
To add, I just discovered this on wikipedia:

"When, in his twenties, Paxman unsuccessfully applied for the vacant editorship of the venerable Labour-supporting weekly New Statesman, he said he considered himself a socialist."
 
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