Derek Draper: Wiki, Bio, Height, Age, Family, Wife, Net Worth

Derek Draper: Wiki, Age, Bio, Family, Height, Net Worth, Profession, Birthday, Nationality, Wife, Career, Education, Achievements & More: Derek Draper is the husband of Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway. He is also a former lobbyist and is known as a political advisor who was involved in two political scandals. He has also written a book.

Derek Draper Life

Derek was born on 15th August 1967 in the city of Chorley, Lancashire. He got his education up to high school from Southlands High School until 1984. Later on, he went on to attend Runshaw College in Leyland and the University of Manchester. Nothing is known about his parents or other aspects of his life. He married Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway in 2005 in Camden, London. Together they have two children. In March 2020 he was admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital due to suffering from COVID-19. He remained in the hospital till June and was still in critical condition. As of March 2021, he is still in the hospital. Even after an year, he has not fully recovered from it.

Derek Draper Career

When he was still in the university he provided hospitality for Ken Livingstone, who had missed his train after a Labour Club meeting. He was shocked to see the unusually large poster of Labour Party deputy leader, Roy Hattersley. In 1990 he began his political career and became the constituency secretary for Nick Brown. He left his job in 1992 to work as a researcher for the MP for Hartlepool, Peter Mandelson.

He had kick-started his political career by then and was on a roll. In 1996, he became a director of a lobbying firm called GPC Market Access and was employed by them until early 1999. He and Liam Byrne set up the New Labour Organisation Progress when he was still working at GPC market Access. During the late 1990s, Draper worked as the Political Editor of the Modern Review, was briefly a columnist for the Daily Express, and a presenter on Talk Radio UK.

Derek Draper Scandal

“Lobbygate” was one of his famous scandals. In 1998, while he was still working as a director at GPC Market Access, Draper was caught on tape, with Jonathan Mendelsohn, boasting to Greg Palast – an undercover reporter from The Observer posing as a businessman – about how they could sell access to government ministers and create tax breaks for their clients. When the media got hold of the story, they dubbed it “Lobbygate” and his career of power was rightfully dragged through the mud.

“LabourList” was his second scandal.
During 2008, he returned to British politics. He was working on the BBC television current affairs programme Newsnight, on 12 September 2008, as a Labour Campaign Advisor. In 2009 he founded the website LabouList, of which he was also the editor of. LabourList seemed to be generally supportive of the Labour Party, it claimed to publish articles and views critical of the Labour government.

The Daily Telegraph reported in 2009 that Gordon Brown’s special adviser, Damian McBride, had sent a series of emails to Draper discussing plans to set up a blog that would be used to post false rumours about the private lives of senior or prominent members of the Conservative Party and their spouses. These rumours would have included sexual and personal fabrications about various personnel. The emails found their way to Paul Staines, who brought them to the attention of the media.

Here is the full bio of Derek Draper, his family, mother, father, brother, sister, name, age, height in feet, wide, body measurement, girlfriend, interest, high school, college, nationality,  University, spouse, Twitter, income network, birthday, zodiac, sign, education, religion, date of birth.

Derek Draper Bio, Height, Weight, Profile, Net Worth

Real name	Derek Draper
Gender	Male
Age	53
Date of birth	15th August 1967
Birthplace	Chorley, Lancashire
Nationality	Britain
Hometown	Lancashire
Profession	Political Adviser
Height	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Interest	Unknown
Zodiac sign	Leo
Marital status	Married
University	Runshaw College, University of Manchester
Parents	Not known
Siblings	one brother
Wife	Kate Garraway
Girlfriend	Not known
Children	2
Net worth	Uknown

Some lesser-known facts about Derek Draper:

• He is married to Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway in 2005.
• In March 2020 he was admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital due to suffering from COVID-19.
• There are two political scandals he has been found as the centre of.
• “Lobbygate” is one of his scandals.
• He and Liam Byrne set up the New Labour Organisation Progress when he was still working at GPC market Access.
• The name of his other scandal was LabourList.
• He is the author of four books.

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