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"I AAMMM A MAAAAAN!!!!!!!"

---Glenn Cullen

"He has gone Glenn–tal"
Adam Kenyon

Glenn Cullen, is a former special adviser to Fergus Williams, the junior minister in the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship. He previously worked as a senior special advisor to Hugh Abbot and Nicola Murray.

Background[]

Personal[]

When he was younger, both his appendix burst and his mother died on Christmas Eve.

Divorced, he has one son, Peter, who has special needs, with his ex-wife. He also has a sister, who lives in Penarth, South Wales, whom he routinely helps with DIY work.

Professional[]

Long time friends with Hugh Abbot, he worked as his senior special adviser prior to the events of Series 1. He continues in this capacity after Hugh is promoted to the Secretary of State for the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship.

Series 3[]

Episode 1[]

He is introduced as Hugh Abbot's chief adviser and friend and later became Senior Adviser to Hugh's replacement Nicola Murray, he continued to work in DoSAC after the coalition government came to power.

Glenn is the Senior Special Adviser in the department - he's never worked anywhere else. Hugh Abbot regarded him as 'his guy' they go back a long way and were even slightly homoerotic in the degree to which their careers and lives were bound together.

Glenn very much senses that the whole department is living on borrowed time and thus is quite insecure.

Series 4[]

Series 4 saw the end of Glenn's career. This occurred after Fergus Williams and his advisor Adam Kenyon, used Glenn to leak a string of emails to The Guardian, which Williams hoped would put distance between him and matters relating to unstable nurse Douglas Tickel; a victim of the key-worker housing sell-off. By accident, Glenn forgot to redact the email chain, sending the information he was asked to leak, along with several emails containing derogatory comments about Mr Tickel, made by Fergus, Peter Mannion, and their special advisors. This leak acted as a catalyst for the Goolding inquiry; An inquiry into the culture of leaking within top-tier politics.

Whilst Glenn's involvement in the leak hadn't been discovered, Glenn was paranoid that he would be sniffed out eventually. Following an explosive meltdown, insulting everyone in the department, he cut up his ID card, and attempted to hand himself over to the police. Whilst he made it to the nearest police station, he changed his mind before walking through the front door.

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