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Andrew Gimson

Posts by Andrew Gimson

Andrew Gimson is a contributing editor to ConservativeHome and the author of "Boris - the Rise of Boris Johnson". He was the Daily Telegraph's parliamentary sketchwriter, and before that the paper's Berlin correspondent.

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Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: An astonishing level of mutual scorn on the Tory benches

Letwin versus Rees-Mogg, or Parliament versus the people.

ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 3 September 2019 at 11:16 pm | 56 comments

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Disraeli Johnson inflicts deep pain on serious-minded people

But there is method in his madness.

ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 3 September 2019 at 6:10 pm | 94 comments

Johnson’s critics are confronted by the dreadful possibility that he will make a success of Brexit

It is dawning on them that they may have underestimated him. Hence the newly hysterical note in their denunciations.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 30 August 2019 at 7:25 am | 706 comments

How not to destroy Trump and Johnson

In both cases their opponents resort to character assassination and are left with no one against whom they can argue.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 15 August 2019 at 7:00 am | 281 comments

A Government of national unity is a non-starter – even if its seven prospective leaders take one day of the week each

Their real aim is to overturn the referendum result, wreck Brexit and destroy the Government we actually have.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 8 August 2019 at 6:30 am | 432 comments

Johnson recognises the importance of instinct and feeling in the Brexit argument

The idea that one side or the other has a monopoly of truth is rightly abhorrent to him.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 5 August 2019 at 6:30 am | 440 comments

The life of Gove, Cameron’s Jeeves and Johnson’s stooge

Owen Bennett sets out the known facts about an astonishing Tory.

Book Reviews, Highlights | By Andrew Gimson | 3 August 2019 at 7:00 am | 31 comments

Why the Left prefers condemning the Prime Minister to understanding him

Brainless tribalism led it to underestimate Johnson.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 1 August 2019 at 7:15 am | 249 comments

Johnson has the inestimable advantage of a divided Opposition

Campbell’s public letter testifies to the depth of the split on the Left.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 31 July 2019 at 7:05 am | 617 comments

What Johnson will be like as Prime Minister

He is a man of Negative Capability, who cannot be understood by those with a fact-checking mentality, and he admires Trump.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 18 July 2019 at 6:40 am | 261 comments

Time is running out for Corbyn as well as May

Here is a Leader of the Opposition who cannot see an open goal without tapping the ball gently in the wrong direction.

ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 17 July 2019 at 2:20 pm | 27 comments

Hustings in Maidstone. Johnson offers glutinous harmony while Hunt is “the better Jeremy”.

The front-runner promised over a thousand Party members to employ “creative ambiguity” to achieve Brexit by October 31st.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 12 July 2019 at 6:50 am | 105 comments

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: May denounces Corbyn as a Groucho Marxist

The Speaker must rein in self-indulgent MPs who no longer try to express themselves with the greatest possible concision and force.

ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 10 July 2019 at 2:05 pm | 36 comments

Hunt bends every sinew to make this contest a two-horse race

He is an admirably English candidate, a sensitive and prudent man who can be relied on to behave like an officer and a gentleman.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 4 July 2019 at 7:00 am | 166 comments

Fifteen years after I started writing about Johnson, one might almost think his time has come

Johnson’s first biographer confesses to feelings of bemusement, even incredulity, at the recent turn of events.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 29 June 2019 at 6:40 am | 164 comments

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