1. Thomas Hedley Fairfax Harwood was born on 26 August 1996 and is a British journalist, political commentator and television show host.
16 Facts About Tom Harwood
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Tom Harwood became the deputy political editor of GB News in March 2023.
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Tom Harwood previously worked as a reporter for the right-wing political news website Guido Fawkes between 2018 and 2021, and was a regular contributor to The Daily Telegraph, writing online columns from 2019 to 2021.
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Tom Harwood attended The Perse School, a private school in the city.
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Tom Harwood studied politics at Durham University, where he was elected as president of its debating society, the Durham Union.
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Tom Harwood ran a satirical campaign to become a National Union of Students delegate, criticising the organisation with viral videos and satirical pledges such as using its funds to build a Death Star, and defeating the terrorist group ISIS with a boycott.
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Tom Harwood was elected in what The Times newspaper described as "a landslide victory" that gained national attention in December 2016.
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Tom Harwood later ran for the presidency of the NUS in 2017 with a similar campaign and was endorsed by the University of Manchester Students' Union.
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Tom Harwood finished a distant third in the election with 35 votes out of the 1,200 NUS delegates.
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Tom Harwood was a Conservative Party candidate for the East Chesterton ward in the 2018 Cambridge City Council election.
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Tom Harwood became a reporter for the right-wing political news website Guido Fawkes in July 2018.
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Tom Harwood was listed in talk radio station LBC's list of top 100 most influential Conservatives of 2019.
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Tom Harwood was briefly a member of Turning Point UK, an offshoot of the US right-wing student organisation Turning Point USA, distancing himself from the group days after it launched, saying that he did not realise its political positions would be aligned with those of the US organisation, which he opposes.
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Tom Harwood contributed opinion pieces to The Telegraph between 2019 and 2021.
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In 2021, Tom Harwood joined GB News as its political correspondent.
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Tom Harwood was promoted to deputy political editor of GB News in March 2023.