The Albion Courier, Features Desk
[George Wickham, Member of the House of Commons for Bond Street, agreed to speak with the Courier at a café near Parliament. The interview ran considerably longer than scheduled. He did not appear to mind.]
There are politicians who make you feel like the most interesting person in the room. George Wickham is one of them, and he is good enough at it that you are halfway home before you start wondering how he managed it.
He is tall, broad-shouldered, and possessed of the kind of easy confidence that reads as warmth rather than arrogance, a distinction that matters more in politics than most professions. He arrived at our meeting slightly late, apologised with complete sincerity, and within ten minutes had asked three questions about this journalist’s own career that suggested he had done his research. It is the sort of thing that should feel calculated. Somehow it does not.
Continue reading “Builder of Bridges: A Profile of George Wickham “
Jaglion Press 