How terrifying top aide Fiona Hill shields Theresa May from harm

Fiona Hill is the PM's Woman Friday whom she trusts implicitly. Certainly, throughout the notorious 'Trousergate' photoshoot, Theresa Might's joint chief of employees let slip that she herself had personally helped to pick the outfit.

Though self-confident in her selection of garments (most notably along with her trademark kitten heels), Mrs Might has benefited from the model recommendation of her 43-year-old aide.

In fact, the pugnacious Scot doesn't limit her recommendation to sartorial issues. With fellow chief of employees Nick Timothy — nicknamed the PM's 'Rasputin' on account of his Slavic beard — she is fiercely protecting of her boss.

Fiona Hill (left), one of many prime minister's prime aides, who has been described as 'terrifying'

So fierce, actually, that many ministers, together with Chancellor Philip Hammond, have complained about being bossed about by the 'unelected' Ms Hill. They've spoken of what they declare is her rudeness and management freak tendency.

Crucially, her No 10 workplace is subsequent to Might's and anybody who needs to see the PM should stroll previous her first. 'Every little thing has to undergo Fiona and Nick. 

Not solely are they the PM's eyes and ears, they're her second sight, too,' stated one bruised minister. 'Fiona would stroll throughout a busy road to start out a battle if she thought somebody was making an attempt to wreck Theresa.'

Such rottweiler duties started when she labored for Mrs Might on the House Workplace and she or he made little secret of her disdain for the ministers who crossed her. 

Such was her popularity that David Cameron's Downing Avenue workforce suspected, with some justification, that Ms Hill was too eagerly selling the pursuits of Mrs Might above these of the federal government as an entire.

One sufferer throughout the Coalition years was Lib Dem House Workplace minister Norman Baker, who recurrently clashed with Hill after shifting from the transport division. Later, he stated: 'It was like going from someplace good and heat to Hell.'

Few had been shocked when Ms Hill obtained her come-uppance in 2014 throughout yet one more bloody Whitehall turf conflict. 

It occurred after the then Justice Secretary, Michael Gove, was recognized because the supply of an nameless briefing to a newspaper through which Mrs Might was blamed for letting Islamic extremists infiltrate colleges in Birmingham. 

Gove additionally criticised Charles Farr, Mrs Might's counter-terrorism adviser, who was in a relationship with Ms Hill.

Such rottweiler duties started when she labored for Mrs Might on the House Workplace and she or he made little secret of her disdain for the ministers who crossed her

Not surprisingly, with each her boss and her lover attacked, Ms Hill retaliated.

Within the messy fall-out, Downing Avenue noticed its likelihood to heap retribution on Ms Hill — with Mrs Might compelled to eliminate her loyal aide.

Cameron's resignation as PM was the prospect for Mrs Might to carry her again into the fold. Hill give up her job at a communications company to assist Mrs Might on her Tory management marketing campaign.

Ms Hill was duly rewarded — being certainly one of Mrs Might's first Downing Avenue appointments.

Raised in Greenock and educated at a Catholic complete, Ms Hill's first job was as a soccer reporter on the Each day Report. She moved to Sky Information and have become fascinated by politics. It wasn't lengthy earlier than she was working as particular adviser to the Tories' Shadow Well being Secretary.

After Cameron stood down as PM, his departing communications chief Craig Oliver warned civil servants: 'For those who assume I am tough, simply wait till you meet Fiona Hill. She's terrifying.'

Nicky Morgan can definitely testify to that. 

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