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He was educated at Clifton College and Exeter College, Oxford.

He joined the Liverpool Post on graduation moving to The Guardian five years later as a sub-editor.

He was the editor of the British national Sunday newspaper The Observer from 1998 to 2007.

Under his editorship, The Observer's editorial view supported the invasion of Iraq, a stance that Alton, speaking to Stephen Sackur on BBC's HARDtalk, ( 22 August 2008 ) has since admitted may have been incorrect.