He wrote Cameron’s “Hug a Hoody” speech, and during the Barnard Castle affair leapt to the defence of Cummings.
Tim Montgomerie’s new project is big, bold, and imaginative. But how will a journal that doesn’t do news get cut-through? And will it really do so?
Since 2010 this ferocious adviser has done more than anyone else to drive through educational reforms, and to upset people.
It has become increasingly clear that all this is less about what he did and entirely about who he is.