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  2. Sep 12, 2016 · Political reporter. Whatever else he achieved during his six years in power, David Cameron, who quit as prime minister in July and has now announced he is to step down as an MP, will forever...

  3. Jul 12, 2016 · Increasing the foreign aid budget. David Cameron once named the increase in Britains foreign aid budgetto £11.4billion – as his “proudest achievement” in government. Figures...

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    David Cameron came into office at a difficult time, in the aftermath of the financial crash. He left at another difficult time, immediately after Brexit. In the intervening six years his record was patchy. Far more was promised than was achieved. Nothing came of the “big society”, a largely empty slogan that quietly disappeared. His government impo...

    David Cameron has been extremely successful in delivering one of the unstated but important objectives of Tory prime ministers: he has kept wealth in the hands of the few. He brings to mind Stanley Baldwin, the Tory politician who dominated interwar government. Baldwin, like Cameron pre-Brexit, benefited from a positive public image that associated...

    David Cameron’s political legacy might be immediately deduced from the declared aims of Theresa May, his successor. May has already delivered two speeches in which she has stated her intention to remove the inequalities and injustices that affect those who are poor, working-class, black or women. She claims that her government will serve the intere...

    In 1848, the French politician Ledru Rollin is reputed to have said: “There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.” David Cameron could be said to have done the same thing, with disastrous results. The decision to call a referendum was a narrow political one, motivated largely by the internal politics of the Conservative party, n...

    David Cameron became Conservative leader in 2005, determined to destroy the image of the “nasty party”. But, by the time he took office in 2010, Britain had undergone the credit crunch. In Britain, as on the continent, this weakened the power of the political centre – the centre-left and centre-right – to the benefit of the radical right and, in th...

  4. David Cameron, (born Oct. 9, 1966, London, Eng.), British politician and prime minister (2010–16). He was the United Kingdom’s youngest prime minister since 1812, and he led Britain’s first coalition government since World War II.

  5. David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, PC (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who has served as Foreign Secretary since 2023. He previously served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016, as Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016, and as Leader of the Opposition from 2005 to 2010, while serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for ...

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