Born in Birmingham and educated at Saltley Grammar School and The London School of Economics; Robert Kilroy-Silk carried out research for his PhD. Dr Kilroy-Silk was then offered a post as a lecturer in politics, at Liverpool University, between 1966 and 1974.

In 1974, Robert won his seat in Parliament and served as a Labour MP until 1986 first for Ormskirk and then for Knowsley North. He held numerous posts, including that of shadow Home Office minister. He also held the chairmanship of the parliamentary all-party penal affairs group and became civil liberties ‘Man of the Year’ for several years for his campaign on human rights and penal reform.

Robert left Parliament for the BBC in 1986 to present the extremely successful morning show called, simply, “Kilroy”. Even though he brought millions into the BBC in this five day a week show, their Politically Correct police forced the BBC to close the show in 2003.

He has written three books: Socialism since Marx, Hard Labour, The Political Diary of Robert Kilroy-Silk and a novel, The Ceremony of Innocence. In addition to these books, he wrote a political column in The Times for five years, for The Daily Express for another five years and The Sunday Express as well as columns for Time Out, Chat, The Sunday Mirror and the Today Newspaper.

Robert Kilroy-Silk is currently the MEP for the East Midlands Constituency.

He enjoys gardening and the theatre.