[1] He entered a National Council for the Training of Journalists course run by Harlow College in 1968.
[2] He wrote the newspaper's last splash from its headquarters in Gray's Inn Road (Leon Brittan, the secretary of state for trade and industry, under pressure to resign over the Westland affair) and its first splash from its headquarters in Wapping (Margaret Thatcher's fightback over the affair).
[5] He stood down as political editor after the 2010 general election,[3] having spent 18 years in the role.
[7] Webster retired on 13 January 2016 after a 43-year career at The Times,[7] though it was reported that he would continue to write for the paper "on a casual basis".
[1] Webster's book about his time in journalism, Inside Story: Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit, was released later that year.