Andrew Gimson

Profile: Full name: Andrew Gimson Area of interest: Parliament, Politics, Governement Journals/Organisation: The Daily Telegraph Email: andrew.gimson@telegraph.co.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/andrew-gimson Blog: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/andrewgimson Representation: Networks: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-gimson/2a/304/3b0

Biography: About: Education: Career: Daily Telegraph's parliamentary sketchwriter, 2004/2011 Current position/role: Political sketch writer also writes/has written for: The Spectator, Evening Standard, Financial Times Other roles/Main role: Freelance Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Broadcast media: Video: http://www.winkball.com/entries/nGonA8COKufc/andrew-gimson-parliamentary-sketch-writer-for-daily-telegraph Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other: His wife Sally stood for Labour in the 2010 general election in Leicestershire South, coming third http://ukpolitics.telegraph.co.uk/Leicestershire+South

Books & Debate: Latest work: The Rise of Boris Johnson OCLC70230065, (Pocket Books, £7.99), obtainable from Telegraph bookshop Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

The Daily Telegraph: Column name: Parliamentary sketch Remit/Info: Section: Role: Pen-name: Email: Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/andrew-gimson Commissioning editor: Day published: Regularity: frequent Column format: Average length:

Articles: We must save this admirable marriage - Scotland and England are like a couple overlooking their happiness in their rush for a divorce that will leave them both worse off - The Independent on Sunday, 19th February 2012 Vaulting Victorian ambition conquers common sense - Financial Times, 20th January 2012 - see: Thames_Estuary_Airport The bike whose theft keeps me awake at nights - Evening Standard, 10th January 2012 --- Watch out, there's a Lib Dem about - Once a year, a colourful tribe emerges from the margins of British politics to enjoy a week in the sun - 22nd September 2009 MPs' expenses: Time for Speaker Martin to pipe down - The Speaker has become an embarrassment to the House of Commons, he has to go, and go soon - 13th May 2009 A Speaker struggling to persuade himself that there is nothing very much wrong - Petulance and sarcasm mark Michael Martin's response to public disgust with MPs' expenses - 12th May 2009 Why did the world wait so long to learn Northern Rock was a dud? - Shooting Robert Peston will do no good. Nor would it help to lock up the BBC journalist who broke the Northern Rock story for the rest of his professional life and deprive him of access to the airwaves - 5th February 2009 Damian Green arrest: Michael Martin must live up to office of Speaker - Michael Martin, the Commons Speaker, will on Wednesday make a statement that will show whether he deserves to remain in office.The arrest was a grotesque attack not just on the work of one MP, but on the right of all MPs to defend our liberties and hold the executive to account - 2nd December 2008 The Chancellor, the chancer and the strange case of a rise in VAT - The House peered into the Black Hole of Darling and did not like what it saw - 27th November 2008 Boris Johnson's first 100 days - The class warriors thought that a man elected to the Bullingdon Club would be out of his depth when elected to run a world city - 10th August 2008

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