Where next for Cain, Cummings and the rest?

Mace | 20th November 2020 | Magazine, Uncategorised

Don't have too much sympathy for SpAds on the out. Leaving Whitehall is when the fun starts...

As the PM's inner circle of of advisers is chopped and changed, Cain, Cummings and anyone who follows them haven't too much to fear. Mace considers the fortunes of David Cameron's old advisors. They've done rather well: Ed Llewellyn, British Ambassador to France At Eton at the same time as Cameron, Llewellyn worked for Chris Patten in Hong Kong and for the late Paddy Ashdown in Bosnia. He later became chief of staff to Cameron in opposition and in government. After Cameron stepped down, Llewellyn was given a peerage, but before he could enter the Lords, he became our man in Paris. The appointment was said to have raised eyebrows in the FCO because the plum posting didn't go to a career diplomat Neil O'Brien, MP for Harborough Taking the now less common route of adviser-MP, O'Brien entered parliament as the MP for Harborough at the 2017 general election. In earlier life, O'Brien was director at think tanks Open Europe and Policy Exchange, later spending four years as a SpAd to George Os...

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