Author: Andrew Gilmore

Andrew Gilmore spent a dozen years in public sector communications before switching to journalism. He ran press offices at two local authorities and a regional health body, writing the statements nobody reads and managing the crises everybody remembers. He writes about government policy, public spending, NHS reform, and the institutional stories that develop slowly and land suddenly. He knows how a press office works from the inside and can tell when a statement is saying something and when it is carefully saying nothing. Andrew lives in the West Midlands. He reads departmental spending reviews the way other people read football transfers, and finds the deadline-day drama comparable.