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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pippa Crerar and Peter Walker

Andrew Gilligan: ex-Johnson adviser said to have Sunak’s ear on HS2

Andrew Gilligan
Andrew Gilligan during the Hutton inquiry: he was a controversial figure long before he got anywhere near London’s City Hall and then Downing Street. Photograph: Dan Chung/The Guardian

“If I could sum up my philosophy in a sentence,” Andrew Gilligan told a journalist after his stint as Boris Johnson’s cycling adviser, “it’s do something properly or not at all.”

Gilligan, who is now back in No 10 advising Rishi Sunak and widely thought to be instrumental in convincing the prime minister that he should cut HS2, was often the focal point for controversy over the delivery of London’s first European-style cycle lanes.

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