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Westminster News from Paul Waugh
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News, gossip and insight from PoliticsHome Editor Paul Waugh
Friday 7th October 2011 | 11:21
Cam's new Sam Seaborne: Julian Glover
I've got some hot news for West Wing types: David Cameron has just appointed the Guardian's Julian Glover as his chief speechwriter.
Glover replaces Ameet Gill, who yesterday began his first day as the new head of strategic comms at No.10 (replacing Tim Chatwin).
Julian, civil partner of the Times' Matthew Parris (they tied the knot in 2006), has impressed the Downing Street team with his passion for the Coalition over the past year - not an easy job at the Graun. The paper's chief leader writer, he is a thoroughly modernising Tory who cut his teeth helping John Major to write his memoirs. Julian becomes a special adviser as soon as he is released by his current employers.
The Lib Dems will be delighted by his impending arrival too. I hear that Glover (as well as Martin Kettle) played a key role in getting the Guardian to shift its allegiances to the Libs in its infamous leader column ahead of the last general election.
Julian is not to be confused with his namesake, the actor Julian Glover...who once played Darth Vader's sidekick in The Empire Strikes Back.
As for Ameet, this week was his last conference speech. Already the team in No.10 are paying him lavish tributes for all the work he's done over the past five years on Cam's speeches. He now heads up The Grid, the list of announcements set out for Whitehall by Downing Street.
November 2010
Steve Morris
A brilliant hire for Cameron. The best speechwriters are not just good wordsmiths (which he obviously is) but clear thinkers with good political instincts. Julian is these things too. Lucky No.10
Carl
Toby Ziegler was the chief speech-writer in the West Wing, not Sam! He might not have been as glamorous as Seaborn, but he got the job done... :)
Montgomery Cheddar
He was great as the AT-AT commander in The Empire Strikes Back but surely he'd be more suited to delivering speeches than writing them?
Herbert
No surprise to Guardian readers. That does mean he'll be going, doesn't it?
Ron Burns
Please God..
liz
I'll be putting out the bunting and opening the champagne to cheer 'good riddance' to bad rubbish; Cameron is welcome to him.
Mary
Good; I'd stopped reading his column months ago. It was all delusional rubbish about the wonders of the Coalition and Cameron.
Paul Linford
Great hire by Cameron but not surprised Ameet has moved/been moved on after this week's lame effort. As Alastair Campbell said on his blog, what were Team Cameron doing?
Sarah
Glover's writing for the Graun is dull, pretentious and question begging. But (or should that be 'and'?) he's a big fan of Dave's. His pieces have essentially been job applications and fan mail. Ghost wrote John Major's Autobiography, did he? The perfect credential.