156 Facts About Prime Minister David Cameron

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Prime Minister David Cameron was Member of Parliament for Witney from 2001 to 2016.

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Prime Minister David Cameron identifies as a one-nation conservative, and has been associated with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies.

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Prime Minister David Cameron sought to rebrand the Conservatives, embracing an increasingly socially liberal position, and introducing the "A-List" to increase the number of female and minority ethnic Conservative MPs.

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Prime Minister David Cameron's premiership was marked by the ongoing effects of the late-2000s financial crisis; these involved a large deficit in government finances that his government sought to reduce through austerity measures.

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Prime Minister David Cameron's administration passed the Health and Social Care Act and the Welfare Reform Act, which introduced large-scale changes to healthcare and welfare.

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Internationally, Prime Minister David Cameron's government intervened militarily in the First Libyan Civil War and authorised the bombing of the Islamic State.

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Cameron supported continued membership; following the success of the Leave vote, he resigned as prime minister and was succeeded by Theresa May Cameron has been the president of Alzheimer's Research UK since 2017.

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Prime Minister David Cameron has been praised for modernising the Conservative Party and for decreasing the United Kingdom's national deficit.

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Prime Minister David Cameron has been accused of elitism and political opportunism.

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David William Donald Cameron was born on 9 October 1966 in Marylebone, London, and raised at Peasemore in Berkshire.

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Prime Minister David Cameron has a brother, Alexander Cameron KC was born on 1963, and a barrister, and two sisters.

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Prime Minister David Cameron is the younger son of Ian Donald Cameron a stockbroker, and his wife Mary Fleur, a retired Justice of the Peace and a daughter of Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet.

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Prime Minister David Cameron's father, Ian, was born at Blairmore House near Huntly, Aberdeenshire, and died near Toulon, France, on 8 September 2010; Ian was born with both legs deformed, and underwent repeated operations to correct this.

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Prime Minister David Cameron admitted the offence and had not been involved in selling drugs, so he was not expelled; instead he was fined, prevented from leaving the school grounds, and given a "Georgic".

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Prime Minister David Cameron passed twelve O-Levels and then three A-levels: History of art; History, in which he was taught by Michael Kidson; and Economics with Politics.

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Prime Minister David Cameron obtained three 'A' grades and a '1' grade in the Scholarship Level exam in Economics and Politics.

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Prime Minister David Cameron was later told by one of his professors that it was "definitely an attempt" by the KGB to recruit him.

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In October 1985, Prime Minister David Cameron began his Bachelor of Arts course in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Brasenose College, Oxford.

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Prime Minister David Cameron would be integrating them with the way the British political system is put together.

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Prime Minister David Cameron could have lectured me on it, and I would have sat there and taken notes.

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21.

Prime Minister David Cameron graduated in 1988 with a first-class honours BA degree.

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Prime Minister David Cameron became head of the political section of the Conservative Research Department, and in August 1991 was tipped to follow Judith Chaplin as political secretary to the prime minister.

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However, Prime Minister David Cameron lost to Jonathan Hill, who was appointed in March 1992.

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Prime Minister David Cameron headed the economic section; it was while working on this campaign that Prime Minister David Cameron first worked closely with and befriended Steve Hilton, who was later to become Director of Strategy during his party leadership.

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The strain of getting up at 04:45 every day was reported to have led Prime Minister David Cameron to decide to leave politics in favour of journalism.

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Conservatives' unexpected success in the 1992 election led Prime Minister David Cameron to hit back at older party members who had criticised him and his colleagues, saying "whatever people say about us, we got the campaign right", and that they had listened to their campaign workers on the ground rather than the newspapers.

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Prime Minister David Cameron revealed he had led other members of the team across Smith Square to jeer at Transport House, the former Labour headquarters.

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Prime Minister David Cameron was rewarded with a promotion to Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont.

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Prime Minister David Cameron was working for Lamont at the time of Black Wednesday, when pressure from currency speculators forced the pound sterling out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

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At the 1992 Conservative Party conference, Prime Minister David Cameron had difficulty trying to arrange to brief the speakers in the economic debate, having to resort to putting messages on the internal television system imploring the mover of the motion, Patricia Morris, to contact him.

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Later that month, Prime Minister David Cameron joined a delegation of Special Advisers who visited Germany to build better relations with the Christian Democratic Union; he was reported to be "still smarting" over the Bundesbank's contribution to the economic crisis.

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Taxes needed to be raised in the 1993 Budget, and Prime Minister David Cameron fed the options Lamont was considering through to Conservative Campaign Headquarters for their political acceptability to be assessed.

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However, Lamont's unpopularity did not necessarily affect Prime Minister David Cameron, who was considered as a potential "kamikaze" candidate for the Newbury by-election, which includes the area where he grew up.

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Lamont was sacked at the end of May 1993, and decided not to write the usual letter of resignation; Prime Minister David Cameron was given the responsibility to issue to the press a statement of self-justification.

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At the beginning of September 1993, Prime Minister David Cameron applied to go on Conservative Central Office's list of prospective parliamentary candidates.

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Prime Minister David Cameron was much more socially liberal than Howard but enjoyed working for him.

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37.

In defending Sandra Howard and insisting that she made no such proposal, the journalist Bruce Anderson wrote that Prime Minister David Cameron had proposed a much shorter definition on prison catering which revolved around the phrase "balanced diet", and that Lewis had written thanking Prime Minister David Cameron for a valuable contribution.

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In July 1994, Prime Minister David Cameron left his role as Special Adviser to work as the Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications.

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Prime Minister David Cameron left Carlton to run for Parliament in 1997, returning to his job after his defeat.

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In 1997, Prime Minister David Cameron played up the company's prospects for digital terrestrial television, for which it joined with ITV Granada and Sky to form British Digital Broadcasting.

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Prime Minister David Cameron resigned as Director of Corporate Affairs in February 2001 in order to run for Parliament for a second time, although he remained on the payroll as a consultant.

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Prime Minister David Cameron was reported to have missed out on selection for Ashford in December 1994, after failing to get to the selection meeting as a result of train delays.

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In January 1996, when two shortlisted contenders dropped out, Prime Minister David Cameron was interviewed and subsequently selected for Stafford, a constituency revised in boundary changes, which was projected to have a Conservative majority.

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At the 1996 Conservative Party Conference, Prime Minister David Cameron called for tax cuts in the forthcoming Budget to be targeted at the low-paid and to "small businesses where people took money out of their own pockets to put into companies to keep them going".

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45.

When writing his election address, Prime Minister David Cameron made his own opposition to British membership of the single European currency clear, pledging not to support it.

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Prime Minister David Cameron campaigned using the claim that a Labour government would increase the cost of a pint of beer by 24p; however, the Labour candidate, David Kidney, portrayed Cameron as "a right-wing Tory".

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Prime Minister David Cameron tried for the Kensington and Chelsea seat after the death of Alan Clark, but did not make the shortlist.

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48.

Prime Minister David Cameron was in the final two but narrowly lost at Wealden in March 2000, a loss ascribed by Samantha Cameron to his lack of spontaneity when speaking.

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Prime Minister David Cameron, advised in his strategy by friend Catherine Fall, put a great deal of effort into "nursing" his potential constituency, turning up at social functions, and attacking Woodward for changing his mind on fox hunting to support a ban.

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50.

Prime Minister David Cameron proposed that the Committee launch an inquiry into the law on drugs, and urged the consideration of "radical options".

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51.

Prime Minister David Cameron endorsed Iain Duncan Smith in the 2001 Conservative Party leadership election and organised an event in Witney for party supporters to hear John Bercow speaking for him.

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Prime Minister David Cameron correctly identified the problem of Islamist extremism, the inadequacy of our response both domestically and internationally, and supported – quite rightly in my view – the action to remove the Taliban regime from Afghanistan.

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Prime Minister David Cameron determinedly attempted to increase his public visibility, offering quotations on matters of public controversy.

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54.

Prime Minister David Cameron opposed the payment of compensation to Gurbux Singh, who had resigned as head of the Commission for Racial Equality after a confrontation with the police; and commented that the Home Affairs Select Committee had taken a long time to discuss whether the phrase "black market" should be used.

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The next week, Prime Minister David Cameron deliberately abstained in a vote on allowing same-sex and unmarried couples to adopt children jointly, against a whip to oppose; his abstention was noted.

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In June 2003, Cameron was appointed a shadow minister in the Privy Council Office as a deputy to Eric Forth, then Shadow Leader of the House.

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Prime Minister David Cameron was appointed Opposition frontbench local government spokesman in 2004, before being promoted to the Shadow Cabinet that June as head of policy co-ordination.

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Cameron's relationship with Osborne is regarded as particularly close; Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi suggested the closeness of Osborne's relationship with Cameron meant the two effectively shared power during Cameron's time as prime minister.

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59.

Prime Minister David Cameron announced on 29 September 2005 that he would be a candidate.

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Prime Minister David Cameron's campaign did not gain wide support until his speech, delivered without notes, at the 2005 Conservative party conference.

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Prime Minister David Cameron was accused of paying excessive attention to appearance: ITV News broadcast footage from the 2006 Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth showing him wearing four different sets of clothes within a few hours.

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Quentin Davies MP, who defected from the Conservatives to Labour on 26 June 2007, branded him "superficial, unreliable and [with] an apparent lack of any clear convictions" and stated that David Cameron had turned the Conservative Party's mission into a "PR agenda".

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Traditionalist conservative columnist and author Peter Hitchens wrote, "Mr Prime Minister David Cameron has abandoned the last significant difference between his party and the established left", by embracing social liberalism.

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The Daily Telegraph correspondent and blogger Gerald Warner was particularly scathing about Prime Minister David Cameron's leadership, saying that it alienated traditionalist conservative elements from the Conservative Party.

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Former leader William Hague was appointed to the Foreign Affairs brief, while both George Osborne and Prime Minister David Cameron Davis were retained, as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Shadow Home Secretary respectively.

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Once elected Prime Minister David Cameron began discussions with right-wing and Eurosceptic parties in other European countries, mainly in eastern Europe, and in July 2006 he concluded an agreement to form the Movement for European Reform with the Czech Civic Democratic Party, leading to the formation of a new European Parliament group, the European Conservatives and Reformists, in 2009 after the European Parliament elections.

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Prime Minister David Cameron attended a gathering at Warsaw's Palladium cinema celebrating the foundation of the alliance.

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In forming the caucus, which had 54 MEPs drawn from eight of the 27 EU member states, Prime Minister David Cameron reportedly broke with two decades of Conservative co-operation with the centre-right Christian Democrats, the European People's Party, on the grounds that they are dominated by European federalists and supporters of the Lisbon treaty.

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Prime Minister David Cameron was criticised by Labour MP Peter Hain, himself an anti-apartheid campaigner.

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At the launch of the Conservative Party's education manifesto in January 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron declared an admiration for the "brazenly elite" approach to education of countries such as Singapore and South Korea and expressed a desire to "elevate the status of teaching in our country".

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Prime Minister David Cameron suggested the adoption of more stringent criteria for entry to teaching and offered repayment of the loans of maths and science graduates obtaining first or 2.

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Prime Minister David Cameron repaid £680 claimed for repairs to his constituency home.

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Prime Minister David Cameron said that doing things differently would not have saved the taxpayer any money, as he was paying more on mortgage interest than he was able to reclaim as expenses anyway He spoke out in favour of laws giving voters the power to "recall" or "sack" MPs accused of wrongdoing.

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At age 43, Cameron became the youngest prime minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812, beating the record previously set by Tony Blair in May 1997.

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In June 2010 Prime Minister David Cameron described the economic situation as he came to power as "even worse than we thought" and warned of "difficult decisions" to be made over spending cuts.

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In December 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron attended a meeting with FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-joon in which a vote-trading deal for the right to host the 2018 World Cup in England was discussed.

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Prime Minister David Cameron agreed to holding the 2014 Scottish independence referendum and eliminated the "devomax" option from the ballot for a straight out yes or no vote.

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Prime Minister David Cameron had backed a successful campaign to retain the status quo in a referendum on changing the voting system held at the request of his coalition partners.

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Prime Minister David Cameron supported the introduction of gay marriage despite more of his own Conservative MPs voting against the move than for it, meaning the support of Lib Dem MPs in government and Labour MPs in opposition was required to allow it to pass.

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Prime Minister David Cameron said immigration from outside the EU should be subject to annual limits.

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81.

In 2014, Prime Minister David Cameron dismissed warnings that his cuts to the UK defence budget had left it less than a "first class-player in terms of defence" and no longer a "full partner" to the United States.

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Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the violence used against anti-Gaddafi protesters at the beginning of the Libyan Civil War After weeks of lobbying by the UK and its allies, on 17 March 2011 the United Nations Security Council approved a no-fly zone to prevent government forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi from carrying out air attacks on anti-Gaddafi rebels.

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Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "proud" of the role United Kingdom played in the overthrow of Gaddafi's government.

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US President Barack Obama acknowledged there had been issues with following up the conflict planning, commenting in an interview with The Atlantic magazine that Prime Minister David Cameron had allowed himself to be "distracted by a range of other things".

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In January 2015, Prime Minister David Cameron travelled to the Saudi capital Riyadh to pay his respects following the death of the nation's King Abdullah.

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In 2015, Prime Minister David Cameron's government announced "firm political support" for the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen against the Shi'a Houthis, re-supplying the Saudi military with weapons and providing them with training.

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Prime Minister David Cameron reiterated calls for an independent investigation into the alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War.

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Prime Minister David Cameron stated that, if this investigation was not completed by March 2014, he would press for an independent international inquiry.

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Prime Minister David Cameron was mobbed by demonstrators, mostly women, seeking his assistance in tracing missing relatives.

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The Prime Minister David Cameron government declined to formally recognise the Ottoman Empire's massacres of Armenians as a "genocide".

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Prime Minister David Cameron said he wanted to reaffirm his "unshakable" belief in Israel within the same message.

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Prime Minister David Cameron voiced his opposition to the Goldstone Report, claiming it had been biased against Israel and not enough blame had been placed on Hamas.

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In March 2014, during his first visit to Israel as prime minister, Cameron addressed Israel's Knesset in Jerusalem, where he offered his full support for peace efforts between Israelis and Palestinians, hoping a two-state solution might be achieved.

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Prime Minister David Cameron promised that, before expanding UK air strikes to include IS units in Syria, he would seek parliamentary approval.

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On 7 May 2015, Cameron was re-elected UK prime minister with a majority in the Commons.

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On 24 June, a few hours after the results became known, Cameron announced that he would resign the office of prime minister by the start of the Conservative Party Conference in October 2016.

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Prime Minister David Cameron then submitted his resignation to the Queen later that day.

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Prime Minister David Cameron was succeeded as MP for Witney by fellow Conservative Robert Courts.

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Prime Minister David Cameron described himself in December 2005 as a "modern compassionate conservative" and spoke of a need for a new style of politics, saying that he was "fed up with the Punch and Judy politics of Westminster".

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Prime Minister David Cameron has urged politicians to concentrate more on improving people's happiness and "general well-being", instead of focusing solely on "financial wealth".

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Prime Minister David Cameron said that he believed in "spreading freedom and democracy, and supporting humanitarian intervention" in cases such as the genocide in Darfur, Sudan.

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Prime Minister David Cameron resigned in August 2014 over the government's handling of the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict.

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Whilst urging members of his party to support the coalition's proposals for same-sex marriage, Prime Minister David Cameron said that he backed gay marriage not in spite of his conservatism but because he is a conservative, and claimed it was about equality.

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In 2012, Prime Minister David Cameron publicly apologised for Thatcher-era policies on homosexuality, specifically the introduction of the controversial Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, which he described as "a mistake".

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In 2006 Prime Minister David Cameron described poverty as a "moral disgrace" and promised to tackle relative poverty.

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106.

In 2007 Prime Minister David Cameron promised, "We can make British poverty history, and we will make British poverty history".

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107.

Prime Minister David Cameron denied that austerity had contributed to the 2011 England riots, instead blaming street gangs and opportunistic looters.

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Prime Minister David Cameron is recorded by Hansard as having voted against same-sex adoption rights in 2002, but he denies this, claiming he abstained from the three-line whip imposed on him by his party.

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However, Prime Minister David Cameron supported commitment for gay couples in a 2005 speech, and in October 2011 urged Conservative MPs to support gay marriage.

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Prime Minister David Cameron stated that he wanted to give religious groups the ability to host gay marriage ceremonies, and that he did not want to exclude gay people from a "great institution".

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Prime Minister David Cameron subsequently appointed two women who had voted against same-sex marriage as ministers in the Government Equalities Office, Nicky Morgan and Caroline Dinenage following the 2015 general election.

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In 2009 Prime Minister David Cameron said "the restoration of family values and a new commitment to economic and social responsibility" were "key to repairing 'broken Britain'".

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113.

Prime Minister David Cameron criticised Gordon Brown for being "an analogue politician in a digital age" and referred to him as "the roadblock to reform".

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Prime Minister David Cameron said that John Prescott "clearly looks a fool" after Prescott's personal indiscretions were revealed in spring 2006, and wondered if the Deputy Prime Minister had broken the ministerial code.

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In January 2007, Prime Minister David Cameron made a speech in which he described extremist Islamic organisations and the British National Party as "mirror images" to each other, both preaching "creeds of pure hatred".

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Prime Minister David Cameron is listed as being a supporter of Unite Against Fascism.

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117.

In September 2015, after the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, Prime Minister David Cameron called the party a "threat" to British national and economic security, on the basis of Corbyn's defence and fiscal policies.

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Prime Minister David Cameron supported a motion brought by the SNP and Plaid Cymru in 2006 calling for an inquiry into the government's conduct of the Iraq war.

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Prime Minister David Cameron repeatedly called for the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war to conclude and publish its findings, saying "People want to know the truth".

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120.

Prime Minister David Cameron was a strong advocate of increased ties between India and the United Kingdom, describing Indian–British relations as the "New Special Relationship" in 2010.

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Modi was later elected as prime minister in a landslide majority, leading to Cameron calling Modi and congratulating him on the "election success", one of the first Western leaders to do so.

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122.

Later that year, Conservative MP Brian Binley openly said that Prime Minister David Cameron's leadership was like being a "maid" to the Liberal Democrats, and accused him of leading the party to defeat.

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123.

Andrew Bridgen openly called for a vote of confidence in Cameron's leadership and claimed that the Prime Minister had a "credibility problem" but he dropped his bid for a contest a year later.

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124.

In 2007 Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Andy Coulson, former editor of the News of the World, as his director of communications.

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125.

In 2015 Ashcroft released Call Me Dave, an unauthorised biography of Prime Minister David Cameron written with journalist Isabel Oakeshott, which attracted significant media attention for various lurid allegations about Prime Minister David Cameron's time at university.

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126.

The book includes an anonymous anecdote about Prime Minister David Cameron, now referred to as Piggate, in which he allegedly inserted his penis into a dead pig's head.

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127.

Prime Minister David Cameron later went on to deny these allegations and stated that Ashcroft's reasons for writing the book were clear and the public could see clearly through it.

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128.

An ICM poll in September 2007 saw Prime Minister David Cameron rated the least popular of the three main party leaders.

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129.

In October 2016, Prime Minister David Cameron became chairman of the National Citizen Service Patrons.

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130.

In January 2019, following Theresa May's defeat in the House of Commons over her draft withdrawal agreement, Prime Minister David Cameron gave a rare interview to reporters outside his house in Notting Hill, saying he backed May's Brexit deal with the EU and did not regret calling the 2016 referendum.

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Prime Minister David Cameron confessed "Every single day I think about it, and the fact that we lost, and the consequences, and the things that could have been done differently, and I worry desperately".

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132.

In September 2020, Cameron became the fifth former prime minister to criticise the UK Internal Market Bill, over which he said he had "misgivings".

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133.

On 19 September 2019, Prime Minister David Cameron published a memoir, For the Record, through HarperCollins.

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134.

Prime Minister David Cameron was reported to have signed an £800,000 contract for the book.

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135.

In 2018, Prime Minister David Cameron became an advisor to Greensill Capital and held share options in the company reportedly worth as much as $60 million as well as being paid over $1 million each year for 25 days work per year.

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In 2019, Prime Minister David Cameron arranged for a private meeting with Lex Greensill and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock; under Hancock, several NHS trusts went on to use Greensill Capital's Earnd app.

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In 2020, a few months before Greensill Capital collapsed, Prime Minister David Cameron lobbied the government to bend the rules to allow it to receive Covid Corporate Financing Facility loans.

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138.

Prime Minister David Cameron sent several text messages to Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, who ultimately declined to help Greensill; Cameron held ten virtual meetings with permanent secretaries Tom Scholar and Charles Roxburgh to try to obtain money for Greensill.

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139.

Prime Minister David Cameron later stated through his aides that he did not like the special that he cameoed in, and that he had the "utmost respect" for the people of India.

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140.

Prime Minister David Cameron had a cameo in a One Direction video as part of the 2013 Comic Relief.

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141.

Prime Minister David Cameron was portrayed by comedian Jon Culshaw in ITV's satirical sketch show Newzoids.

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Prime Minister David Cameron was portrayed by Mark Dexter in the Channel 4 television films Coalition and Brexit: The Uncivil War.

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143.

Prime Minister David Cameron was interviewed for a BBC mini-documentary series on his Premiership in 2019, The Prime Minister David Cameron Years.

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144.

Prime Minister David Cameron is married to Samantha Prime Minister David Cameron, the daughter of Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet, and Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones.

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145.

Prime Minister David Cameron took paternity leave when Arthur was born, and this decision received broad coverage.

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146.

Prime Minister David Cameron was born at the Royal Cornwall Hospital on 24 August 2010, three weeks prematurely, while the family was on holiday in Cornwall.

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147.

Prime Minister David Cameron's third given name, Endellion, is taken from the village of St Endellion near where the Camerons were holidaying.

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148.

On 17 September 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron attended a private ceremony for the funeral of his father in Berkshire, which prevented him from hearing the address of Pope Benedict XVI in Westminster Hall, an occasion he would otherwise have attended.

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Ian Prime Minister David Cameron, who had worked as a stockbroker in the City of London, used multimillion-pound investment funds based in offshore tax havens, such as Jersey, Panama City, and Geneva, to increase the family wealth.

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150.

Prime Minister David Cameron owned £31,500 of shares in the fund and sold them for a profit of £19,000 shortly before becoming prime minister in 2010, which he paid full UK tax on.

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151.

David Cameron argued that the fund was set up in Panama so that people who wanted to invest in dollar-denominated shares and companies could do so, and because full UK tax was paid on all profits he made there was no impropriety.

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152.

In 2009, the New Statesman estimated his wealth at, adding that Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to inherit "million-pound legacies" from both sides of his family.

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153.

Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party spokesperson subsequently said that this was a regular arrangement for Cameron at the time.

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154.

Prime Minister David Cameron is an occasional jogger and in 2009 raised funds for charities by taking part in the Oxford 5K and the Great Brook Run.

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Prime Minister David Cameron is a keen cricket fan and has appeared on Test Match Special.

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Prime Minister David Cameron viewed Britain as a "Christian country" and aimed to put faith back into politics.

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