David Cameron
British politician and former Prime Minister
David Cameron is a British politician who led the Conservative Party and was UK Prime Minister from 2010 to 2016. He tells his own story in the memoir For the Record.
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British Born 1966 in The London Clinic, United Kingdom
About David Cameron
David Cameron studied at Eton College and then at Brasenose College, Oxford. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney in 2001 and was Conservative Party leader from 2005 to 2016. After the 2010 general election he became prime minister, heading a coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. He resigned in 2016 after the Brexit referendum on EU membership, which he had introduced. In 2023 he returned to government as Foreign Secretary under Rishi Sunak, serving until July 2024. He published his memoir, For the Record, in 2019.