Media Career
Vaizey has been a regular commentator for the Conservative Party in the news media. He has written regular comment pieces for The Guardian since 1998, and contributes articles to the Sunday Times news review. He has also written for The Times and the Daily Telegraph and written editorials for the Evening Standard. Vaizey is also a regular broadcaster, appearing on Fi Glover's and Edwina Currie's shows on BBC Radio Five Live, as a regular panellist on five’s The Wright Stuff with Matthew Wright, BBC Radio 4's Despatch Box and Westminster Hour, and occasionally as a presenter of People and Politics on the BBC World Service.
On 24 September 2010, Vaizey was named Number 10 in The 2010 Guardian Film Power 100 list. Bradshaw, Peter; Kermode, Mark (24 September 2010). "The 2010 Guardian Film Power 100". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/24/film-power-100-full-list. He enjoyed a cameo role as an Oxfordshire MP in the feature film Tortoise in Love (2012).
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