David Cameron’s recently departed speechwriter Clare Foges earned the affectionate nickname ‘the Prime Minister’s Larynx’ for her work assisting Cameron with his public speaking, so her Times column today will make for some interesting reading for her former colleagues in No. 10.
Despite the Tories winning a majority in the election, Foges, who used to work as an ice cream driver, has offered the Conservatives a shopping list on how they can ‘reset their image’ and shrug off their ‘nasty party’ tag.
The poet, who has been working for Cameron since 2009, calls for the Department of Health to be made a cross party department – presumably by appointing both Burnham and Hunt, as well as suggesting Cameron makes National Citizen Service compulsory. What’s more, she says it’s time the government scrapped the controversial reform to housing benefit, nicknamed the ‘Bedroom Tax’:
‘Move on from the bedroom tax.
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