On 19 September 2013, Jonathan Isaby joined the Bethnal Green & Bow Conservative Association to debate the proposition 'There is no such thing as government money, only taxpayers' money', an appropriate debate title, considering that the Labour Party conference took place the following Sunday. It proved to be a lively, thought provoking and fun evening for everyone that came!
Jonathan Isaby biography
Jonathan was born in London in 1977 and has taken a keen interest in politics ever since the proceedings of the House of Commons was first televised in 1989. After studying Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of York, he joined the BBC, where he worked as a political analyst in the Westminster newsroom. In 2003 he joined The Daily Telegraph as a reporter, later becoming its deputy editor. He latterly wrote his own daily political diary column, Three Line Whip.
In November 2008, he joined ConservativeHome.com as Co-Editor, making him the first journalist from a British national newspaper to leave the mainstream media to work in the blogsphere.
Jonathan then joined the Taxpayers' Alliance in August 2011 as its first Political Director, a role in which he ensures that the TPA's messages are reverberating around the corridors of power in Westminster and Whitehall by working with politicians of all parties on the whole range of TPA campaigns. Recent successful campaigns have seen the first cut in beer tax announced by a Government since 1959, the continued freezing of tax on motor fuel and persuading the Government to oppose World Bank loans to Argentina.