It’s three years since I became ConservativeHome’s first ever Chief Executive, taking on the leadership of the company. Three extremely busy years, in which we’ve navigated a pandemic, hosted a fully online Party Conference, launched new activities like our ConservativeHome Live webinars and our half-day policy conferences, and redesigned and rebuilt the site itself.
I’m pleased to say that ConservativeHome is in robust good health – as a business and as a site. We have created new jobs at a time when the wider media faces many challenges, our brilliant events team provide a thriving range of events in-person and online all year round for free or very low cost to the grassroots audience we were founded to serve, the reach of our daily newsletter has almost tripled, and we continue to provide unparalleled insights and news on conservatism, the Conservative Party and centre right politics even through turbulent times.
The support of readers, contributors, commercial partners, colleagues, the board of directors, and Lord Ashcroft, our proprietor, has been invaluable in making that possible, so thank you. There is much to be proud of in what we have achieved.
As I recently announced, I’m stepping up to a new job as Chief Executive of Total Politics Group, ConservativeHome’s parent company. I’ll still be involved with ConservativeHome, including as a director of the company; the site is close to my heart and is an important part of the group we’re building. However, this new job will require a lot of my attention, particularly since our recent acquisition of a range of other media, events and training brands. Meanwhile, with the success of this structure, ConservativeHome deserves a new leader of its own to build on what we’ve achieved in the last three years.
I’m therefore pleased to announce that the new Chief Executive, as of 1st January 2023, will be Angus Parsad-Wyatt. Angus has been ConservativeHome’s Commercial Director since 2021, and through his dedication and skill has played a key part in delivering the success that the company now enjoys. He’s also a Conservative campaigner, and like the rest of the team came to work here by starting off as a reader of the site, so he understands the special place that ConservativeHome has in the political firmament.
He and I will be working closely together, and I hope you will all join me in supporting Angus as he takes up this role which is really unique in the media and in Westminster. I’m sure he will lead the business to even greater things, and to innovations that I wouldn’t even have imagined. ConservativeHome has been persistently creative and groundbreaking since its inception, and I’m very much looking forward to seeing that continue.