Andrew Alexander (journalist)
English journalist
Andrew Clive Alexander (12 May 1935 – 5 July 2015) was an English journalist and columnist for The Yorkshire Post, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail. Between 1984 and 2000 he was the city editor for the Daily Mail
Life
Alexander was born in Worthing on 12 May 1935. His father, Ronald Fergus Alexander was a teacher and his mother was Doreen Olivia Myfanwy. He was educated at Lancing College in Lancing, West Sussex. Some time after leaving college in 1960, he applied for a job at
Yorkshire Post, where he started writing about economics, despite not having trained in the subject.
While at The Post, he was the unsuccessful Conservative candidate at the 1963 Colne Valley by-election. and lost again in the 1964 General Election. In 1966, he took on a role at The Daily Telegraph as a leader writer and parliamentary sketch writer. There he became an advocate of the Thatcherism set of beliefs. In 1972, he moved from The Telegraph to Daily Mail, as a sketch writer.
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