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

• ConservativeHome
• British political blogs
• Tim Montgomerie

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.