Williamson then worked for a while in the pottery industry and for an architectural design firm before being elected MP for South Staffordshire in 2010 at the age of 33. Just a few years after his election, Williamson was given a sought-after job as Cameron’s parliamentary aide, acting as his eyes and ears among MPs. But when Cameron stepped down, Williamson quickly threw his lot in with May as the most effective stop-Boris candidate and was adopted as her campaign manager. Williamson immediately made himself useful by becoming pivotal in the deal May’s minority government struck with the Democratic Unionist party (DUP). Since then, he has earned her respect for managing difficult parliamentary votes with the slimmest of DUP-backed majorities.

Source: The Guardian November 02, 2017 12:05 UTC