[2] She is married to Tom Whitehead, who works as a senior civil servant in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).
[3] Before joining the Daily Mirror, Crerar worked as Political Correspondent and City Hall editor for the Evening Standard[4] throughout Boris Johnson's tenure as London Mayor.
[11] In November 2021, Crerar published an article stating that a Christmas party had taken place in Downing Street in 2020, in contravention of lockdown rules.
[22] In March 2022, the British Journalism Review said of Crerar: "Our profession should ultimately be about only one thing: fearless truth-telling and truthful reporting, regardless of the consequences.
She's shown how the job should be done, and in the process played a major role in turning the Mirror back into a paper of which its legendary campaigning boss Hugh Cudlipp could feel proud".
[24] In November 2022, Crerar reported that Rishi Sunak used a private GP practice that offered consultations for £250, against a backdrop of ongoing disputes over NHS pay.
[28] Later that month, she wrote that officials had been offered "respite or a route out"[29] amid bullying fears when Dominic Raab returned to the Ministry of Justice.
It was the first in a series of exclusives about the deputy prime minister's behaviour across several Whitehall departments that resulted in an official investigation, which in April 2023 found him guilty of bullying, forcing him to stand down.