Kate Andrews
{{Short description|American journalist}}
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Kate Andrews (born 24 June 1990) is an American journalist based in the United Kingdom who focuses on economics issues. She has been the economics editor of The Spectator since 2021 and also writes a weekly column for The Daily Telegraph.{{cite web |title=Kate Andrews |url=https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/speaker/kate-andrews/ |website=Battle of Ideas}} She previously wrote a fortnightly column for City AM.{{cite news |title=Kate Andrews |url=https://www.shareradio.co.uk/about/team/contributors/kate-andrews/ |work=Share Radio}}
Early life
Andrews was educated at Greens Farms Academy in Westport, Connecticut before moving to Scotland in 2008 to study at the University of St Andrews where she graduated in 2012 with a MA in International Relations and Philosophy.{{cite news |last1=Andrews |first1=Kate |title=Theresa May's rule change kicked foreign graduates like me out – now Boris is reversing the injustice |url=https://www.cityam.com/theresa-mays-rule-change-kicked-foreign-graduates-like-me-out-now-boris-is-reversing-the-injustice/ |work=City AM |date=13 September 2019}} At St Andrews, she was a part of the university's performing arts society and served as the rector's assessor during Alistair Moffat's term as Rector.{{cite news |title=Issue 152: Mermaids committee member quits amid controversy |url=https://issuu.com/thesaint_newspaper/docs/152 |work=The Saint |date=20 April 2011 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Issue 166: Features - Alistair Moffat |url=https://issuu.com/thesaint_newspaper/docs/issue_166 |work=The Saint |date=24 October 2012 |language=en}}
Career
After university, Andrews had brief stints working for the presidential campaign team for Mitt Romney, the senate campaign team for Linda McMahon, and for the American conservative news website, Townhall.{{cite web |title=The Evening After the Night Before: analysing Super Tuesday |url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2016/03/20160302t1830vSZT/the-evening-after-the-night-before |website=London School of Economics and Political Science}} In 2014, she returned to the United Kingdom to work for the neoliberal think tank, the Adam Smith Institute. She then moved to the free market think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs, to take up the position of news editor. In 2018, she was included in LBC's list of the 100 most influential conservatives in the UK.{{cite news |title=The Top 100 Most Influential Conservatives: Full List |url=https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/iain-dale/the-top-100-most-influential-conservatives/ |work=LBC |date=1 October 2018 |language=en}}
In 2020, she joined The Spectator as a journalist covering economics-related issues and became the publication's economics editor in 2021. She has twice been shortlisted for 'Business and finance Journalist of the year' by The Press Awards for her work in trend-analysis, most notably predicting the surge in inflation which faced the UK after the COVID-19 pandemic.{{cite web |title=Kate Andrews |url=https://www.thepressawards.com/finalists/kate-andrews-b0024 |publisher=The Press Awards |date=1 December 2022|language=en}}{{cite web |title=Kate Andrews |url=https://www.thepressawards.com/finalists/kate-andrews-hsyql5cphsiij05 |publisher=The Press Awards |access-date=1 December 2024 |language=en}}
She is a frequent panelist on the BBC's Politics Live and Question Time,{{cite news |last1=Walsh |first1=Matt |title=BBC Question Time: analysis of guests over nine years suggests an overuse of rightwing voices |url=https://theconversation.com/bbc-question-time-analysis-of-guests-over-nine-years-suggests-an-overuse-of-rightwing-voices-232315 |work=The Conversation |date=17 June 2024}}{{cite news |title=Viewers fume as Question Time selects Spectator journalist for appearance yet again |url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/23991666.question-time-panel-selection-criticised-spectator-journalists-appearance/ |work=The National |date=15 December 2023 |language=en}} and also makes regular media appearances on other broadcasters, including Sky News, Channel 4, Channel 5 and ITV.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8503066/|title=Kate Andrews|website=IMDb}}
Political views
A self-identified lifelong Republican, Andrews voted for Joe Biden in 2020 in protest against Donald Trump, having previously voted for the Libertarian candidate in 2016.{{cite news |last1=Andrews |first1=Kate |title=Why this lifelong Republican has to vote for Biden |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-this-lifelong-republican-has-to-vote-for-biden/ |work=The Spectator |date=15 October 2020}} She is a free-speech advocate,{{cite news |title=Dimbleby criticises 'vile' social media attacks |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06qk7f2 |work=BBC One - Question Time |date=1 November 2018}} holds favourable views towards immigration{{cite news |last1=Andrews |first1=Kate |title=What the right gets wrong on illegal immigration |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-the-right-gets-wrong-on-illegal-immigration/ |work=The Spectator |date=11 March 2023}}{{cite news |last1=Andrews |first1=Kate |title=In defence of the latest high migration figures |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-defence-of-todays-high-migration-figures/ |work=The Spectator |date=23 November 2023}} and has previously spoken out against gun control measures which widened background checks on potential gun buyers.{{cite news |title=A US woman on why she disagrees with Obama on gun control |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-35233637 |work=BBC News |date=5 January 2016}}
Andrews has regularly advocated for a reform in how the National Health Service is funded. She does not believe that the funding model of the healthcare system in the United States should be replicated in the UK, but supports examining the healthcare systems of other countries which maintain the principles of universal access and free at the point of delivery.{{cite news |last1=Dare we change the way health is funded? |title=Dare we change the way health is funded? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05t5t8c |work=BBC Two - Daily Politics |date=8 January 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Andrews |first1=Kate |title=Finally, a Labour politician is talking seriously about NHS reform |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/01/27/labour-must-accept-funding-crumbling-nhs-needs-overhaul/ |work=The Telegraph |date=27 January 2023}}
References
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External links
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- [https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/kate-andrews/ Kate Andrews] at The Spectator
- [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/k/ka-ke/kate-andrews/ Kate Andrews] at The Daily Telegraph
- [https://www.cityam.com/profile/kate-andrews/ Kate Andrews] at City AM
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Category:Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Category:21st-century American women journalists
Category:American expatriates in England
Category:The Daily Telegraph people