10 Facts About Andrew Rawnsley

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Andrew Nicholas James Rawnsley was born on 5 January 1962 and is a British political journalist and broadcaster.

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Andrew Rawnsley was educated at Lawrence Sheriff School in Rugby and later on a scholarship at Rugby School and read history at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, gaining a first-class Honours degree.

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Andrew Rawnsley was editor of Stop Press, the Cambridge University newspaper of the day, and won the Guardian Student Journalist of the year award in 1984.

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Andrew Rawnsley has broadcast regularly; he was co-presenter of Channel 4's A Week in Politics with Vincent Hanna.

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Andrew Rawnsley continues to be the writer-presenter of one-off documentaries for Channel 4.

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Andrew Rawnsley made Bye Bye Blues, a three part series about John Major's Government, in 1997.

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Andrew Rawnsley was the founding and sole presenter of BBC Radio Four's The Westminster Hour from 1998 to September 2006.

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Andrew Rawnsley was succeeded by Carolyn Quinn when he moved to the ITV network for a new programme, The Sunday Edition, with Andrea Catherwood, a series which began on Sunday 17 September 2006.

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Andrew Rawnsley's Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour, published on 27 September 2000, is an account of the early years of New Labour in government.

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Andrew Rawnsley became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2001.