Matthew Robert 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. ↑ "Queen Elizabeth's School - New & Noteworthy". qebarnet.co.uk. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Top 100 Conservative blogs | TotalPolitics.com". totalpolitics.com. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Top 100 right-wing blogs | TotalPolitics.com". totalpolitics.com. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "Top 100 UK political blogs | TotalPolitics.com". totalpolitics.com. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "Conservative Home". conservativehome.blogs.com. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "Tory MPs Groups | Conservative Home". conservativehome.com. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  7. ↑ "STOP HS2 | A year on: Damning MPA report on HS2 still secret". stophs2.org. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
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