Andrew Cooper, Baron Cooper of Windrush
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Andrew Timothy Cooper, Baron Cooper of Windrush (born 9 June 1963) is a British politician and former Director of Strategy in the Cameron–Clegg coalition. He entered the House of Lords as a Conservative peer, but was suspended from the party whip (and also his Party membership) for endorsing the Liberal Democrats in the 2019 European Parliament elections.[1]
Personal life
Andrew Cooper was born in Twickenham, and educated at Reigate Grammar School, Reigate, Surrey (where his classmates included Keir Starmer and the future American-based conservative journalist Andrew Sullivan),[2] and at the London School of Economics, where he graduated with a BSc (Econ) in 1985.[3] He is married and has three daughters.
Politics
Cooper was a member of the
He worked for the Conservatives from 1995 to 1999, first as Deputy Director of the
Cooper was created Baron Cooper of Windrush, of Chipping Norton in the County of Oxfordshire, on 17 September 2014.[5]
Work as pollster
Lord Cooper is a co-founder of the research and strategy consultancy Populus Ltd. He took a leave of absence from Populus to serve from March 2011 to October 2013 as Director of Strategy in the Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street, where he was architect of then Prime Minister David Cameron's policy on same-sex marriage.[citation needed]
When his Downing Street appointment was announced, New Labour strategist Philip Gould (Lord Gould of Brookwood) wrote of Cooper[6] that "he is without doubt the best political pollster of his generation, and one of the few who knows how to fuse polling and strategy". The commentator Matthew d'Ancona in The Daily Telegraph (19 February 2011) wrote that Cooper's "great gift to the Conservative Party has not been liberal ideology, but a pitiless empiricism".[citation needed]
In popular culture
Cooper was portrayed by actor Gavin Spokes in the 2019 HBO and Channel 4-produced drama entitled Brexit: The Uncivil War.[7][8]
References
- ^ Zeffman, Kate Devlin, Chief Political Correspondent | Oliver Wright | Henry. "Lord Cooper shares Heseltine's fate for backing Lib Dems" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
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- ^ a b "Cooper of Windrush". Who's Who. Vol. 2023 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Michael White, "Children of the Gang of Four", The Guardian, 14 April 1997, B8.
- ^ "No. 60995". The London Gazette. 23 September 2014. p. 18458.
- ^ The Times,. 2 March 2011
- ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
- Matthew Elliott (4 January 2019). "Vote Leave's Matthew Elliott on Channel 4's Brexit: The Uncivil War". Financial Times.
Screenwriter James Graham has turned the campaign into a compelling story — and nailed my mannerisms
External links
- Lord Cooper of Windrush – UK Parliament
- Andrew Cooper – Populus