Andrew Alexander (journalist)

Andrew Alexander (May 1935 – 5 July 2015) was an English journalist and columnist for The Daily Mail.^[1]

He was the son of S. W. Alexander.^[2] He was the unsuccessful Conservative candidate at the Colne Valley by-election, 1963.^[3] He won Specialist Writer of the Year in the British Press Awards for 1976.^[4] He was denounced in the House of Commons by the Labour MP Dennis Canavan as "that prizewinning cynical jackass".^[5]

Alexander died aged 80 on 5 July 2015.^[6]

Works

• (with Alan Watkins), The Making of the Prime Minister 1970 (London: Macdonald, 1970).
• America and the Imperialism of Ignorance: US Foreign Policy since 1945 (London: Biteback, 2011).

References

2. The Times (27 July 1966), p. 14.
3. The Times (22 March 1963), p. 12.
4. The Times (03 March 1977), p. 2.
5. PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS), HC Deb 21 April 1977 vol 930 cc359-63.
6. Levy, Geoffrey (8 July 2015). "Mail's ex-City editor Andrew Alexander dies at 80". The Daily Mail. Retrieved 8 July 2015.