Clare Foges

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Clare Foges is a former speechwriter for UK prime minister David Cameron from 2009 tuntil after the 2015 general election.[1] She is praised with drafting his much anticipated speech on Europe in January 2013.

She is now a columnist for The Times.

Background

Foges first worked 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]

As Cameron's speechwriter Foges was paid an annual salary of £70,000. [4]

Social media

@ClareFoges

Notes

  1. ↑ Steer Pike Cameron’s former speechwriter Clare Foges launches attack on Tories Spectator, 9 June 2015, accessed 10 June 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
  4. ↑ Special advisers in post, 30 November 2014 GOV.UK, accessed 28 April 2015