1. Andrew Boff was born on 14 April 1958 and is a British politician who has been Chair of the London Assembly since 2023, and previously from 2021 to 2022.
27 Facts About Andrew Boff
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Andrew Boff has unsuccessfully sought to become the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London on six occasions, most recently failing to gain the nomination for the 2024 election.
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Andrew Boff later served as Leader of the Council between 1990 and 1992.
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Andrew Boff stood in the safe Labour seat of London South Inner in the 1994 election to the European Parliament.
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Andrew Boff was placed seventh on the Conservative list in London in the 1999 European Parliament election.
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Andrew Boff became known in London politics after he contested the Conservative nomination for the London mayoral elections in 2000,2004 and 2008.
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In summer 2018, Andrew Boff launched another campaign to be the Conservative candidate for Mayor of London in 2021.
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Andrew Boff was shortlisted along with Joy Morrissey and fellow London Assembly Member Shaun Bailey.
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Andrew Boff was placed first on the Conservative top-up list for the London Assembly in 2008, comfortably winning a seat.
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Andrew Boff ran for the chairmanship of the assembly in 2010, with the backing of the eleven Conservative members, but lost to Liberal Democrat Dee Doocey, who received the backing of the fourteen other members, including Richard Barnbrook.
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Andrew Boff was succeeded by Gareth Bacon in October 2015.
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In 2019, Andrew Boff became Chairman of the Confirmation Hearings Committee and the Planning Committee.
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Andrew Boff has stood for office numerous times in Hackney, where he lived.
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Andrew Boff received the Conservative nomination for the elections in 2002 and 2006 to elect the Mayor of Hackney, but came second both times.
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Andrew Boff was the Conservatives' London Assembly candidate for the North East constituency in 2004, but came third, behind the candidates from both Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
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Andrew Boff achieved success in Hackney in 2005, when he won the supposedly safe Labour seat of Queensbridge in a council by-election, before losing it at the 2006 Hackney Council election, albeit with a vote tripled from the previous borough election.
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Andrew Boff stood for Mayor of Hackney for a third time in 2010.
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Andrew Boff unsuccessfully stood for the ward of Thames at the 2014 Barking and Dagenham elections and for the ward of Longbridge at the 2018 elections.
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Andrew Boff unsuccessfully stood again for the Thames ward at a by-election in May 2021.
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Andrew Boff stood unsuccessfully for the ward of Thames View at the 2022 elections.
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On 3 October 2023, Andrew Boff was swiftly marched out of the Conservative Party Conference by police after vocally expressing his disapproval of a speech by Home Secretary Suella Braverman, which he reportedly referred to as a "homophobic rant" and "tripe".
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Andrew Boff has stated that his 2005 same-sex civil partnership was "register number 000001", although it was not the first finalised because the 15-day waiting period was waived for a terminally ill man in Worthing.
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An atheist and a humanist, Andrew Boff is a member of Humanists UK.
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Andrew Boff helped to launch the Conservative Humanist Association, a Conservative Party ginger group, at an event in London in 2008.
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Andrew Boff was involved with the successful reinvigoration of Hackney's Broadway Market in the early 2000s.
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Andrew Boff produced a free monthly local magazine for the E8 postcode area.
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On 10 June 2019, Andrew Boff ran into a burning tower block in Barking Riverside to help people escape a fire that had broken out.