Liam James Halligan (born 29 April 1969) is a British economist, journalist, author and broadcaster.
[8][9] In 1992, following graduation, Halligan joined his former university tutor Robert Skidelsky at The Social Market Foundation, the Westminster-based think tank.
[10] Together with other economists from LSE, Oxford and Harvard, he co-founded Russian Economic Trends, an academic journal that published macroeconomic data, analysis and commentary on Russia.
[14] In 2017, Halligan was invited to join an expert advisory committee at the Department for International Trade.
[9] He covered the 1997 general election and Good Friday Agreement as part of a team led by political editor Robert Peston.
[26] When the BBC axed the programme in 2019, Halligan said the corporation had made a "blindingly obvious mistake".
[27] Since 2004, he has also regularly presented standalone documentaries on Channel 4, including for Dispatches, and sits on the jury of the Royal Television Society's Specialist Journalist award.
[28] In March 2021, Halligan was named as economics and business editor at GB News and co-presenter of a daily lunchtime show with former Labour Party MP Gloria De Piero.
On 1 September 2022, it was announced that the show was to be axed, with Halligan having an increased presence on other GB News programmes, centering around the Cost of living crisis.