Clare Foges

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Claire Foges is speechwriter to David Cameron.

Background

Foges attained a Master's degree in Poetry before going on to work in the Westminster office of John Hayes (MP) in 2006. She moved on to work full-time on Boris Johnson’s mayoral campaign. [1] She began working for Cameron in 2008 and drafted his much anticipated speech on Europe in January 2013. Foges went to a comprehensive school, gaining a First in English at Southampton University before studying for her Masters in Poetry at Bristol. [2]

Notes

  1. Claire Foges, BBC, accessed 18 September 2014.
  2. 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