Sir Rowan and the Camerian Conquest: 06 (The Knights of Arrethtrae)

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Mr Cameron dismissed concerns that austerity had contributed to failures to respond to the pandemic saying he does not accept that the health budget over the time of his government was “inadequate” and led to a “depletion in its ability to provide an adequate service”. 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. He also became a vice- chairman of the Conservative Party when Michael Howard took over the leadership in November of that year. He was appointed Opposition frontbench local government spokesman in 2004, before being promoted to the Shadow Cabinet that June as head of policy co-ordination. Later, he became Shadow Education Secretary in the post-election reshuffle. [92] In 1996, Cameron married Samantha Sheffield, the daughter of Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet, and Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones (later Viscountess Astor). A Marlborough College school friend of Cameron's sister Clare, Samantha accepted Clare's invitation to accompany the Cameron family on holiday in Tuscany, Italy, after graduating from the Bristol School of Creative Arts. It was then David and Samantha's romance started. In response to the Great Recession, Cameron undertook the austerity programme. This was a deficit reduction programme consisting of sustained reductions in public spending, intended to reduce the government budget deficit and the welfare state in the United Kingdom. The National Health Service [152] and education [153] have been " ringfenced" and protected from direct spending cuts. [154] Together with Chancellor George Osborne, Cameron aimed to eliminate the structural deficit (i.e. deficit on current spending as opposed to investment), and to have government debt falling as a percentage of GDP. [155] By 2015, the deficit as a percentage of GDP had been reduced to half what it was in 2010, and the sale of government assets (mostly the shares of banks nationalised in the 2000s) had resulted in government debt as a proportion of GDP falling. [155] Immigration As a former prime minister, he will be a high-profile figure on the international stage. But it is highly unusual for a senior cabinet minister to come from the House of Lords rather than the Commons.

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Cameron was educated at two private schools. From the age of seven, he was taught at Heatherdown School in Winkfield, Berkshire. The school counts Prince Andrew and Prince Edward among its old boys. Owing to good grades, he entered its top academic class almost two years early. [24] At the age of 13, he went on to Eton College in Berkshire, following his father and elder brother. [25] His early interest was in art. Six weeks before taking his O-Levels, he was caught smoking cannabis. [26] He 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" (a punishment that involved copying 500 lines of Latin text). [27] In September 2020, Cameron became the fifth former prime minister to criticise the UK Internal Market Bill, over which he said he had "misgivings". Cameron said the "bigger picture" was about trying to get a trade deal with the EU, urging the government to "keep that context [and] that big prize in mind." [335] Memoir It’s very hard to answer why that’s the case. And I’m sure this public inquiry is going to spend a lot of time on that.” ‘Mistake was made not looking at range of pandemics’ In early May 2008, the Camerons decided to enroll their daughter Nancy at a state primary school. For three years before that, they had been attending its associated church, St Mary Abbots, [375] near the Cameron family home in North Kensington. [376] Cameron's constituency home is in Dean, Oxfordshire, and the Camerons have been described as key members of the Chipping Norton set. [377] Mr Cameron also admitted that there were “failures to follow through” on findings during an Exercise Alice modelling operation in response to the Mers virus outbreak in February 2016.

In July 2015, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Reprieve revealed that, without the knowledge of UK parliamentarians, RAF pilots had, in fact, been bombing targets in Syria, and that Cameron knew of this. [209] [210] The prime minister, along with Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, faced strong criticism, including from Conservative MPs, for not informing the Commons about this deployment; the Ministry of Defence said that the pilots concerned were "embedded" with foreign military forces, and so were "effectively" operating as such, while Fallon denied that MPs had been, as he put it, "kept in the dark". [211] [212] [213] The Reprieve FoI request also revealed that British drone pilots had been embedded, almost continuously, with American forces at Creech Air Force Base since 2008. These drone operators, who were "a gift of services", meaning the UK still paid their salaries and covered their expenses, had been carrying out operations that included reconnaissance in Syria to assist American strikes against IS. [214] Cameron and Russian President Putin at the G20 Antalya summit, Turkey, 16 November 2015 At the end of May 2011, Cameron stepped down as patron of the Jewish National Fund, [197] [198] becoming the first British prime minister not to be patron of the charity in the 110 years of its existence. [199]Britain should be proud of role in Libya" (Press release). Ministry of Defence. 2 September 2011. Archived from the original on 8 April 2016 . Retrieved 24 March 2016. Cameron is a given name in the English language. It is a popular unisex name in North America, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Cameron is ranked as a top 50 name for boys in Scotland.

Cameron's relative youth and inexperience before becoming leader invited satirical comparison with Tony Blair. Private Eye soon published a picture of both leaders on its front cover, with the caption "World's first face transplant a success". [104] On the left, the New Statesman unfavourably likened his "new style of politics" to Tony Blair's early leadership years. [105] 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. [106] In his column for The Guardian, comedy writer and broadcaster Charlie Brooker described the Conservative leader as "a hollow Easter egg with no bag of sweets inside" in April 2007. [107] According to WikiLeaks, Cameron initiated a secret deal with Saudi Arabia, ensuring both countries were elected onto the U.N. Human Rights Council. [175] In 2015, Cameron's government announced "firm political support" for the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen against the Shi'a Houthis, [176] re-supplying the Saudi military with weapons and providing them with training. [177] [178] [179] Sri Lanka a b c Hough, Andrew (11 May 2010). "David Cameron becomes youngest Prime Minister in almost 200 years". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 13 May 2010 . Retrieved 11 May 2010.David Cameron: Jewish Care". SayIt. Archived from the original on 9 March 2017 . Retrieved 11 November 2015. Before he became Conservative leader, Cameron was reportedly known to friends and family as "Dave", though his preference is "David" in public. [112] [113] Labour used the slogan Dave the Chameleon in their 2006 local elections party broadcast to portray Cameron as an ever-changing populist, which was criticised as negative campaigning by the Conservative press, including The Daily Telegraph, [114] though Cameron asserted the broadcast had become his daughter's "favourite video". [115] Allegations of recreational drug use Cameron attended a gathering at Warsaw's Palladium cinema celebrating the foundation of the alliance. [123] In the first ballot of Conservative MPs on 18 October 2005, Cameron came second, with 56 votes, slightly more than expected; David Davis had fewer than predicted at 62 votes; Liam Fox came third with 42 votes; and Kenneth Clarke was eliminated with 38 votes. In the second ballot on 20 October 2005, Cameron came first with 90 votes; David Davis was second, with 57; and Liam Fox was eliminated with 51 votes. [100] All 198 Conservative MPs voted in both ballots. See also: Operation Ellamy Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague speaking to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (left) at the London Conference on Libya, 29 March 2011