Well, his grandfather is. Joe Walcott is a councillor in the sleepy town of Carterton in Oxfordshire. It might explain why David Cameron takes a keen interest in the teenage Walcott’s career: Joe can often be seen at the Conservative Leader’s constituency surgery, as Carterton comes under his Witney patch. Forget hat-tricks and wags – Theo even had the honour of switching on Carterton’s Christmas lights one year. Now he’s supplanted David Beckham in the England pecking order. Hmm, a young pretender reaching for the crown of the older, more established leader who’s now fallen out of favour? That would be stretching a sporting metaphor too far surely? ...
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Well, his grandfather is. Joe Walcott is a councillor in the sleepy town of Carterton in Oxfordshire. It might explain why David Cameron takes a keen interest in the teenage Walcott’s career: Joe can often be seen at the Conservative Leader’s constituency surgery, as Carterton comes under his Witney patch. Forget hat-tricks and wags – Theo even had the honour of switching on Carterton’s Christmas lights one year. Now he’s supplanted David Beckham in the England pecking order. Hmm, a young pretender reaching for the crown of the older, more established leader who’s now fallen out of favour? That would be stretching a sporting metaphor too far surely? ...