It is the kind of analysis that produced this broadside in the Spectator Australia from James Patterson, who said the Canberra press gallery had badly underestimated the Liberal leader.
And my over-riding memory from that time is how, night after night, we would stand in the press gallery at 10pm watching to see how Eurosceptic Tory MPs would try to defeat their government again.
It actually brought at tear to my eye as I was watching from the press gallery and saw many - this one daughter of a member holding a Bible for the member to be sworn in on.
Since anyone in the press gallery can see the glow of i-phones and i-pads as MPs tweet and e-mail through debates, that last one is more a case of catching up with reality than breaking through into the 21st century.
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As a BBC political correspondent Andrew had his own vantage point in the parliamentary press gallery high above the House of Commons, and access to the lobbies and corridors where politicians and their aides put their spin on the day's events.
He was occasionally indiscreet: in a speech to the parliamentary press gallery a year after taking office he spoke of it being the "Frustration Parliament", and referred to some Conservatives who, he said, had got in by mistake and lost their previous jobs and pensions.
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