Gyles Brandreth Keynote Speaker

Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster, former MP and Government Whip, now Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Chester and best known as a regular on ITV’s This Morning and Radio 4’s Just a Minute. On stage he has appeared as Malvolio, Lady Bracknell and in his own musical revue in London’s West End.  He is currently on a tour with his one man show ‘Can’t Stop Talking’. 

On TV he has featured in Have I Got News For You, QI, Would I Lie to You?, Pointless, Countdown and Celebrity Gogglebox. His novels include seven Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as his detective and he has published two acclaimed volumes of diaries, an autobiography, Odd Boy Out, a biography of AA Milne Somewhere a Boy and a  Bear, and two best-selling royal biographies.  He has a podcast Rosebud, in which he talks to famous people about their early memories. He is married to writer and publisher Michèle Brown and has three children, seven grandchildren and a cat.