William Higham

 

William Higham has worked in and around politics as a campaigner, commentator and communicator since 1997.

William has written and commissioned widely on politics and policy for many magazines and the national press. He has commented  on radio and television on issue from prisons to nose-piercings at Heathrow. He has been head of communications at the think Demos; and head of policy and communications at the national campaigning charity the Prison Reform Trust. At the start of his career he worked in parliament for an MP. He is now working at the hi-tech industries association, Intellect, on technology and national policy. 

He has knocked on doors up and down the country, been rained up, shouted at, bitten by dogs and even invited in for tea. He has fled security guards for holding-up up a ‘Vote Gore’ banner behind a roller-skating chimpanzee that was being filmed for TV in New York. In 2005, more prosaically, he spent the general election at the Labour campaign HQ.

His proudest moments have been fighting for lost causes, helping to midwife new ideas into the political world, and – just occasionally – being part of achieving real change.