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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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Election sketch: “Do you have a golden toilet?” – Boris faces a grilling

The Mayor of London tells a tough audience that journalism is cruel, and demonstrates his extraordinary ability to connect with members of the public.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 28 April 2015 at 7:00 am | 21 comments

Election sketch: Javid copes with a semi-naked UKIP voter in Derbyshire

The Culture Secretary goes campaigning in two Derbyshire marginals…and finds time to ensure that his Department is flying the flag of England on St George’s Day.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 24 April 2015 at 7:00 am | 6 comments

Election sketch: In West Yorkshire, the political weather suddenly feels different because of Sturgeon

Ed Balls refused to dance with Andrea Jenkyns, the Yorkshire lass standing for the Conservatives, but should be worried that he could lose his seat to her.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 22 April 2015 at 7:45 am | 36 comments

Election sketch: Northamptonshire Conservatives (including Mrs Bone) hope to persuade voters that UKIP is redundant

Peter Bone in Wellingborough, and Tom Pursglove in Corby, are campaigning on a staunchly Eurosceptic platform. Mrs Bone approves, but rather wishes it was all over.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 20 April 2015 at 6:45 am | 31 comments

Election sketch: Bolton West wants to talk about immigration

In this acutely marginal seat, Labour looks even more vulnerable than the Conservatives to attack by UKIP.

ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 15 April 2015 at 7:05 am | 18 comments

Election sketch: Jackie Doyle-Price – not drowning but waving in Thurrock

In this marginal seat on the Thames estuary, Team Jackie take to an open-top bus in an attempt to foil UKIP and Labour, and Farage gains a Hitler moustache.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 9 April 2015 at 7:30 am | 11 comments

Election sketch: Amandeep Singh Bhogal, the Sikh Conservative who wants to end sectarian politics in Northern Ireland

On the day David Cameron visited Belfast, Bhogal tried to persuade people in Banbridge that it is possible to move beyond ancient quarrels.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 8 April 2015 at 7:30 am | 7 comments

Team2015 is more formidable, and traditional, than it looks

In which I go campaigning with Grant Shapps’s brainchild, which has mobilised thousands of activists who would probably not have joined their local associations.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 30 March 2015 at 7:00 am | 16 comments

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Cameron has his best day by making Miliband look like a poodle who wants to raise taxes

The Prime Minister raised Tory morale by demonstrating his formidable abilities as a campaigner, and by showing that he will not behave like a Crosby-controlled robot.

ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 25 March 2015 at 2:12 pm | 48 comments

Profile: Sajid Javid, a man who as party leader could transform how people see the Tories

Ever since his days as a Thatcherite firebrand at Exeter University, this Tory of Asian descent has believed in a tough, meritocratic conservatism.

Highlights | By Andrew Gimson | 25 March 2015 at 7:30 am | 27 comments

The Conservatives must not just rely on Miliband’s inability to debate

The Labour leader’s deficiencies in no way reduce the need for the Conservatives to set out an ambitious and trustworthy programme.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 22 March 2015 at 8:00 am | 115 comments

Andrew Gimson’s Budget sketch: Osborne offered much good news marred by an angry urge to kick Labour

He banged their Eds against a brick wall, but please can we not have a whole election campaign that sounds like this?

ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 18 March 2015 at 3:00 pm | 6 comments

Profile: Lord Feldman, the more important of the two Tory Chairmen

Cameron’s old college friend has filled the party’s war chest.

ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 18 March 2015 at 7:15 am | 9 comments

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde fight it out for Cameron’s soul

By accusing Miliband of crawling, Cameron raised questions about his own character.

ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 11 March 2015 at 2:14 pm | 29 comments

Big Issue 1) The constitution – Cameron and Miliband must tell us how they plan to save the UK

The campaign is impoverished and the electorate insulted by the refusal of the main party leaders to talk about a new settlement for the United Kingdom.

Highlights, ToryDiary | By Andrew Gimson | 10 March 2015 at 7:00 am | 52 comments

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