Andrew Wigmore was born on 1 June 1966 in
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. Wigmore is half-
Belizean, and holds dual citizenship of Belize and the United Kingdom. He attended the Sacred Heart College in
Droitwich in
Worcestershire. Andrew Wigmore said in June 2018: "My dad worked in Berlin during the
Cold War in a place called the
Berlin Air Safety Centre, which was an organisation that looks after the air corridors. They worked with the Soviets 24/7. My dad interacted with the Soviets. I grew up in that environment in
Berlin. I met many of the Soviets; I was fascinated by everything that went on in Berlin during the Cold War (...) my Dad dragged me out of bed at some ungodly hour to go and watch a piece of history, which was the last spy swap at
Glienicke Bridge". Wigmore has worked in communications mainly privately until 2016 when he was director of communications for Arron Banks' Leave.EU campaign. He also held a role as a trade, commercial and press attaché at the Belize
High Commission in London, a diplomatic position bound by the
Vienna Convention. Following Wigmore's highly publicised meeting with then
President-elect of the United States Donald Trump complaints arose regarding Wigmore forgoing his "duty not to interfere in the internal affairs [of another country]" as an accredited diplomat. Wigmore's role with the Belizean High commission ended on 23 January 2017. From September 2015, Wigmore, along with Arron Banks, had multiple meetings with Russian officials posted at the Russian embassy in London. The first contact was with Russian diplomat and suspected spy Alexander Udod, in order to ask for a meeting with Russia's ambassador to Britain
Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko. In 2018, Wigmore was accused by
Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Chair
Damian Collins of misleading
Parliament over the nature of his relationship with officials at the Russian embassy. It was alleged in 2021 that Wigmore sent abusive messages online to journalist
Carole Cadwalladr, for which he was subsequently suspended from
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