Robert Peston: ‘I’m not a conventional broadcaster – people hate my style’

The journalist, 63, on his weird brain, trying to fix everyone’s problems and how interviewing prime ministers has changed over timeI grew up in a culturally and ethnically, but not religious, noisy Jewish household in Crouch End, north London. I was the oldest of three children. I remember my father, who rarely cooked but had to on this occasion because my mum was giving birth, once managed to serve my sister and I fish fingers. They were black on the outside and frozen in the middle. A r