David Cameron
Who is David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician and lobbyist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney from 2001 to 2016 and leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016. He identifies as a one-nation conservative, and has been associated with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies.
Born in London to an upper-middle-class family, Cameron was educated at Heatherdown School, Eton College, and Brasenose College, Oxford. From 1988 to 1993 he worked at the Conservative Research Department, latterly assisting the Conservative Prime Minister John Major, before leaving politics to work for Carlton Communications in 1994. Becoming an MP in 2001, he served in the opposit...
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I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.
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Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
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There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.
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I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.
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We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.
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- Hector_drummond: it reminds me of when david cameron said that the conservative party was surprisingly easy to take over.
- Sdrizin: david r. cameron: ct bill rightly aims to prevent false confessions from those under 18
- Patrickstrud: 7/ paul o'grady on david cameron:
- Drfrancesryan: paul o’grady was passionately anti-austerity and the tory party. years before this morning grinned with boris johnson, chat show host o’grady made headlines for wanting david cameron and george osborne’s “heads on spikes on tower bridge” over cuts to the poorest and sick.
- Vurbmoto: 5 guys: aldon baker on training: big e of yoshimura; jamie at twisted development talks engine building and cameron mcadoo and david pulley.
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