Clare Foges

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Clare Foges is the speechwriter for David Cameron. Foges began working for Cameron in 2008 and is praised with drafting his much anticipated speech on Europe in January 2013.

As Mr Cameron's speechwriter Foges is paid an annual salary of £70,000. [1]

Background

Foges attained a Master's degree in Poetry before going on to work in the Westminster office of John Hayes (MP for South Holland and The Deepings) in 2006. She went on to work full-time on Boris Johnson’s mayoral campaign. [2]

Foges went to a comprehensive school, gaining a first in English at Southampton University before studying for her Masters in Poetry at Bristol. [3]

Notes

  1. Special advisers in post, 30 November 2014 GOV.UK, accessed 28 April 2015
  2. Claire Foges, BBC, accessed 18 September 2014.
  3. Andrew Pierce Revealed: The raven-haired poet (and former ice cream seller) who wrote the PM's big Europe speech The Daily Mail, 24 January 2013, accessed 10 October 2014