Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne has been crowned President of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB).

The prolific scribe, who is currently juggling at least half a dozen projects, will take over from Sandi Toksvig immediately after today’s WGGB AGM. Toksvig, a former Great British Bake Off host, has served the maximum term of six years, a term that took in the Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. writers strike and emergence of artificial intelligence.

“This is such a huge honour for me,” Thorne said. “I think the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain is a union to be hugely proud of. I was proud of it from the outside and I’m delighted to now fight for it from the inside. And I do think we’re about to be in the battle of our lives.”

Thorne described the landscape for writers as “brutal,” fl

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