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![[Opening scene is WESTMINSTER, LONDON. Over Downing Street a huge ALIEN SPACECRAFT hovers, silent, still, filling the whole sky a la Independence Day].
[Cut to INSIDE 10 DOWNING STREET. The (then) prime Minister DAVID CAMERON is looking out of his office window at the ship.]
VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE, BEHIND CAMERON:
Prime Minister…
CAMERON [addressing the person behind him, still keeping his eyes fixed ahead in dread at the spaceship]:
Yes?
[We see the speaker is MICHAEL GOVE, then Education Secretary]:
GOVE:
Let me do it.
CAMERON:
For God's sake, Michael, you're the Education Secretary! You've never flown a fighter plane in your life!
GOVE:
But I know I could do it, David. I could fly a fighter plane into the big space- ship...
...and shoot all the aliens.
CAMERON:
But you have no military training!
GOVE:
David
I haven't told you this, but...
I used to be a journalist. For The Times.
[Cameron reacts, turning to look at Gove with awe and respect, as if only now truly seeing him for the first time].
GOVE:
I wrote two articles about planes, David.
I've got strong opinions about aliens.
I know I can do this job.
[Cut to a title card panel]:
AND SO:
[Then cut again to Cameron on the roof of Number 10, watching a Michael Gove pilot a fighter jet up towards the spacecraft, and then completely miss it, careering towards Earth, as Cameron buries his face in his hands].
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![After graduation, Gibb joined the BBC as a political researcher including for the television programme On the Record. He left this role soon after his brother Nick was elected as
Conservative MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, to become Conservative MP and shadow chancellor Francis Maude's chief of staff. 4] Gibb served in this role until 2000. 5] He then joined Maude in supporting Michael Portillo's campaign to become leader in the
2001 Conservative Party leadership election.!21
He returned to the BBC in 2002 as deputy editor of the news and current affairs television
programme Newsnight. Gibb left this role to become the organisation's political editor for Daily Politics, The Andrew Marr Show, and This](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2w3eicjzblwvqo3nsxiivwgb/bafkreihbj4pb4r4krlfyjimtg4nqnce7wcl3ctlal6nffjsyed7up3sju4)
![He returned to the BBC in 2002 as deputy editor of the news and current affairs television
programme Newsnight. Gibb left this role to become the organisation's political editor for Daily Politics, The Andrew Marr Show, and This Week as well as coverage of the Budget.?!
He was also editor of live political events including The Great Debate during the 2016 EU referendum campaign. " Gibb is a prominent supporter of Brexit. 9!
In 2017, Gibb returned to politics, becoming Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May's Downing Street Director of Communications.
He was succeeded by Lee Cain after Boris Johnson became prime minister in 2019.[10]
He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in May's resignation honours on 10 September 2019 for political and public service.!"! Gibb then became a senior advisor for global strategic communications consultancy Kekst CNC,
which is part of the French public relations firm
Publicis Groupe.[12]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2w3eicjzblwvqo3nsxiivwgb/bafkreiggkfuhdqftsm2vn3zhbuaffe4jzenedqqmvi6tz7ukpbamfhmobi)
