Matthew Barrett (journalist)

Matthew Barrett (born 1992) is a British journalist. He is the Deputy Editor of the ConservativeHome political website.

Biography

Barrett was born in London, and was educated at the Queen Elizabeth's School, a state grammar school in north London.[1]

Barrett created a blog, Working Class Tory while still at school. Within two years, the blog was amongst Total Politics magazine's top ten Conservative-supporting blogs for 2010, alongside others including Daniel Hannan, Iain Dale and Harry Cole,[2] 20th most popular right-wing blog,[3] and in the top 40 most popular political blogs overall.[4] Barrett subsequently joined ConservativeHome as Deputy Editor to Tim Montgomerie in April 2011, replacing Jonathan Isaby, who later joined the TaxPayers' Alliance.[5]

Barrett is known for his contacts amongst Tory MPs, having created a series of profiles of backbench groups of Conservative MPs,[6] and for being amongst the main journalists campaigning against the High Speed 2 rail project.[7]

Barrett has featured in other publications including Foreign Policy, the Yorkshire Evening Post, and on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.qebarnet.co.uk/new_and_noteworthy?newsID=258
  2. ↑ http://www.totalpolitics.com/blog/27523/top-100-conservative-blogs.thtml
  3. ↑ http://www.totalpolitics.com/blog/27678/top-100-rightwing-blogs.thtml
  4. ↑ http://www.totalpolitics.com/blog/27763/top-100-uk-political-blogs.thtml
  5. ↑ http://conservativehome.blogs.com/resources/2012/08/introducing-matthew-barrett.html
  6. ↑ http://www.conservativehome.com/tag/tory-mps-groups
  7. ↑ http://stophs2.org/news/8427-report-on-hs2-still-secre
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