Andy McSmith

Andy McSmith is a freelance English journalist.

He was a journalist at

Independent on Sunday (same newspaper) and chief political correspondent of The Daily Telegraph^{[citation needed]} and The Observer (part of the Guardian stable). In 1993 he was sacked by the Daily Mirror and Labour Party MPs raised his dismissal in a motion in the House of Commons.^[1]

He is the author of seven books^[citation needed]: biographies of longtime Conservative politician Kenneth Clarke and former Labour leader John Smith, a collection of short biographies called Faces of Labour: The Inside Story (1996), No Such Thing as Society: A History of Britain in the 1980s, Fear and the Muse Kept Watch (2015) about the great writers and artists who lived under Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union, and a novel, Innocent in the House. He has also contributed to many other books.

He lives in London.^[2]

Bibliography

Strange People I Have Known … And Other Stories (London: Biteback Publishing, 2023)
ISBN 9781785908057

References

^ "Sacking of Andy McSmith from Daily Mirror - Early Day Motions". UK Parliament. 26 April 1993. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
^ "Andy McSmith". Archived from the original on 17 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-04.

External links

Andy McSmith on
Twitter

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[UK_Parliament_1993-1] "Sacking of Andy McSmith from Daily Mirror - Early Day Motions". UK Parliament. 26 April 1993. Retrieved 3 April 2023.

[2] "Andy McSmith". Archived from the original on 17 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-04.

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