Gavin Barwell
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Barwell lost his seat in GE-2017, then May gave him a job as Chief of Staff. Nice cushy place to sit it out and wait for GE-22.
Timeline
2016 | Gavin Barwell, then the Tory MP for Croydon Central, wrote a book entitled How to Win a Marginal Seat. |
2017 | This year, he discovered how to lose one when he was defeated by Labour’s Sarah Jones, who achieved a majority of 5,652.[1] |
Articles
- Apr.02.2018: Gavin Barwell sat on the recommendations of the Lakanal Fire Inquiry, but did nothing. Now he is the PMs special advisor, after losing his seat and job as housing minister. The first duty of government is to protect the people, not its own interests. Linkback: Grenfell Tower fire, Red Tape Initiative. @NicklesColin, Twitter.
- Feb.14.2018: Theresa May's chief of staff Gavin Barwell says he 'regrets' replying to late night tweet of porn involving women dressed up as schoolgirls. Gavin Barwell's Twitter account replied to the porn tweets sent on Monday night. The explicit images were on his timeline and stayed up there for over a day. Explicit images showed two women dressed as schoolgirls performing a sex act. Father-of-three said he replied to the post by accident and later deleted it. Barwell, who is married with three sons, lost his seat of Croydon Central in GE-2017. But he was brought in to be the PM's right hand man soon after the Tory election disaster The Mail Online, Kate Ferguson
- Oct.02.2017: Iain Dale’s 100 most influential people on the Right 2017. Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister. By common consent one of the nicest people in politics, he bounced back from losing his Croydon seat to replace Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill as the Prime Minister’s chief of staff. He’s made it his business to be approachable and considerate, and it is said that Downing Street is a happy place to work under his leadership. He is also said to speak truth unto power. Let’s hope he’s listened to. Conservative Home, Iain Dale
- Oct.03.2016: Iain Dale’s 100 most influential people on the Right. Minister for Housing. By common consent one of the nicest people in politics, Barwell was handed one of the trickiest portfolios in govt by May. If he can get housing policy right, he could well prove to be an election winner. Conservative Home, Iain Dale
- Jul.17.2016: New ministerial and government appointments announced. More ministerial and government appointments including Parliamentary Under Secretaries of State and Whips have been announced. Gavin Barwell MP as Minister of State for Housing, Planning and Minister for London at the Department for Communities and Local Government. Number 10 Downing Street, '
- May.26.2015: Expenses and sex scandal deleted from MPs’ Wikipedia pages by computers inside Parliament. Tory MP Gavin Barwell’s biography has a local newspaper’s criticism of his “persistent attempts at headline-grabbing” deleted. (Also see International Business Times) The Telegraph, Ben Riley-Smith
- Apr.30.2018: Corbyn’s capital: the story of how London became a Labour city. George Eaton, The News Statesman.