Gawain is a well known British political strategist and communications expert with two decades of experience on the right of British politics in the UK’s Eurosceptic movements. 

Between 2004 and 2017 Gawain was chief press officer for UKIP, initially in the European Parliament in Brussels and, from 2009, heading up operations in London. In 2019, he was appointed director of communications for the Brexit Party. He is an international political strategist and historian and has written for most national publications. Until recently, he was Head of Press at Reform UK. 

He was and is a permanent fixture in the phone books of a generation of lobby journalists and is virtually unparalleled in his knowledge, insights and connections to Reform UK. He regularly appears on the broadcast (including the BBC, Sky News and ITV) and in print media to discuss UK politics and Reform UK.