Andrew Boff is one of the four shortlisted candidates for the Conservative nomination for London Mayor. He was second-placed in yesterday's ConservativeHome survey of London Tories.
A Londoner all his life, Andrew runs an IT consultancy and is publisher of EASTeight magazine. He and his partner, who registered their civil partnership in December 2005, live in Hackney.
Andrew is the secretary of the BMTRA, a social enterprise which, by managing London's most successful community-run market, Broadway Market, regenerates the area.
Andrew led Hillingdon Conservatives to victory against the national trend in 1990 and was Chief Whip of the London Boroughs Association. In 1993 he co-founded the “Civic Skills” consultancy. He contested Hornsey and Wood Green in 1992 and stood for the European Parliament for Lewisham, Southwark and Greenwich.
He was GLA candidate for Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest in 2004. In 2005 he won a solid Labour seat on Hackney Council at a by-election and a year later more than trebled the party's vote over the previous full Borough elections.
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