David Hencke, Guardian journalist who exposed ‘cash for questions’ scandal, dies aged 79

Acclaimed Guardian journalist David Hencke has died from liver cancer at seventy-nine. Over more than three decades at the newspaper, Hencke's Westminster reporting earned him a reputation for exposing political wrongdoing. He was instrumental in the cash for questions scandal of the nineteen-nineties, which forced the resignations of two Conservative ministers. His work also led to Peter Mandelson's first resignation from government. According to the Guardian, Hencke's investigative journalism shaped British political accountability during a pivotal era.

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