[3] She went on to replace Andrew Marr as the host of the BBC's weekend political interview programme, which was rebadged with the name Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg in September 2022.

[6][7] She grew up in Glasgow with her brother and sister,[8] and attended Laurel Bank School before going on to study history at the University of Edinburgh, where she graduated with a first-class honours degree and an MA.

[10][11] Her Edinburgh-born father, Nick Kuenssberg, was a businessman, investor, and academic;[12][13] while her mother worked in children's services and received an OBE for this in the 2000 New Year Honours.

[16] Kuenssberg won the regional Royal Television Society "Most Promising Newcomer" award in 2001 while working as home affairs correspondent for BBC North East and Cumbria.

In May 2010, her presence on BBC Television was so ubiquitous in the period between the 2010 United Kingdom general election and the formation of the Cameron–Clegg coalition, that journalist David Aaronovitch coined the term "Kuenssbergovision".

[30][31] In October 2024, the BBC cancelled an interview Kuenssberg was due to conduct with former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson after she accidentally sent him her briefing notes.

[19] In January 2016, Kuenssberg was involved in arranging for the Labour MP Stephen Doughty to publicly announce his resignation as a shadow foreign office minister on Daily Politics.

The incident was the subject of an official complaint from Seumas Milne, the Labour Party's director of communications, which was rejected by Robbie Gibb, then the BBC's head of live political programmes.

[34] In December 2016, Kuenssberg said a source had told her that the Queen had made comments supportive of leaving the European Union during a private lunch at Windsor Castle.

[38] On 11 December 2019, while reporting on the 2019 United Kingdom general election, she was accused of breaking electoral law by stating that postal ballots painted a "grim" picture for Labour.

Kuenssberg told viewers on Wednesday that while parties were not supposed to look at voting papers when they were verified – but not counted – at opening sessions, they did "get a hint" of how they were doing and it was not looking good for Labour.

On 17 December 2019, she presented a second documentary film, The Brexit Storm Continues: Laura Kuenssberg's Inside Story, which covered Boris Johnson's arrival at 10 Downing Street through to the 2019 general election.

[45] The petition was later withdrawn by David Babbs, executive director of 38 Degrees, who suggested it had become a "focal point for sexist and hateful abuse made towards Laura Kuenssberg" on other social media websites such as Twitter although it was acknowledged that this represented "the actions of a small minority".

[7][50] In September 2019, Kuenssberg received criticism for her portrayal of Omar Salem, a father who confronted the prime minister, Boris Johnson, about the government's treatment of the NHS, as "a Labour activist.

[61] On 3 March 2020, however, the BBC's Executive Complaints Unit stated that "It found no evidence of political bias nor that Laura Kuenssberg had failed to check the story before publication."

[65] In 2022, Patrick Howse, a former BBC reporter and producer, described this as part of a pattern where "Access was crucial" which allowed "lies" to be "amplified and given credibility by Britain's state broadcaster.

[72] Journalist Jenni Russell, a former BBC editor herself, was quoted in The New York Times about the issue affecting Kuenssberg: "The graphic level of threats to women is quite extraordinary and it's one of the worst things to have happened in recent British public life.

[77] "Kuenssberg deserves this prize for the sheer volume and scope of reporting on some of the biggest changes ever in British politics" said the judges, pointing especially to her coverage of the EU membership referendum and its aftermath.