Tim Dawson

He was educated at Abingdon School from 1999-2006. He was the comedy actor in Here to Entertain You and The Comedians and won the North Drama Prize. He also wrote, produced and directed Bang Goes Douglas Smith.[6]

Dawson created Coming of Age whilst still a teenager.[7] He has also written for Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.[8]

Dawson was identified as a 'Broadcast Hot Shot' in a 2008 edition of the industry magazine Broadcast.[9]

In 2018, Dawson contributed an episode of Lady Christina, a series of audio dramas spun-off from Doctor Who and made by Big Finish Productions.[10] As of August 2019, Not for Turning, a radio drama by Dawson, is slated for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2020.[11]

Dawson has written articles for The Daily Telegraph[12], The Spectator[13], Spiked[14], Conservative Home[15] and CapX[16]. He is editor of the website Free Market Conservatives, which, as its name suggests, promotes free market conservatism.[17]

In 2018 he announced his intention to stand as a councillor for the Conservatives in local elections.[18]

Dawson was identified as the "public face" of Britain's Future, an "obscure" and "mysterious" pro-hard Brexit group, now defunct, that was reported in March 2019 to have spent £340,000 on targeted advertising on Facebook and Instagram in the preceding four months, more than every UK political party and the British government combined.[19] Dawson had previously declined to explain the source of the organisation's funds beyond saying that he personally was "raising small donations from friends and fellow Brexiteers."[20] In late March of 2019, The Guardian newspaper reported that the likelihood was that the majority of the funding for Dawson's Facebook advertising was supplied by Sir Lynton Crosby's CTF Partners.[21]

• List of Old Abingdonians

• Tim Dawson on IMDb