David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. He was Member of Parliament for Witney from 2001 to 2016 and leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to2016. He identifies as a one-nation conservative, and has been associated with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies. Cameron has been criticised for his decision to hold the referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU.
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David William Donald Cameron is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. He was Member of Parliament for Witney from 2001 to 2016 and leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to2016. He identifies as a one-nation conservative, and has been associated with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies. 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. He has a brother, Alexander Cameron QC, a barrister, and two sisters. Cameron was educated at Heatherdown School, Eton College, and Brasenose College, Oxford. He had three ‘A’ grades and a ‘1’ in Politics and Economics in the ‘1st’ grade. He is currently the President of Alzheimer’s Research UK. Cameron has been criticised for his decision to hold the referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU which led to a period of political instability in the UK during the late 2010s. His 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. Cameron’s great-great-grandfather, Alexander Geddes, made a fortune in the grain trade in Chicago, Illinois, before returning to Scotland in the 1880s.
He also referenced the German-Jewish ancestry of one of his great-grandmothers, Arthur Levita, a descendant of the Yiddish author Elia Levita. Cameron had three A-Levels and a ‘1’ grade in History, History, and History, which he then took in art. At the age of 12, he was caught smoking cannabis and was prevented from leaving the school on academic grounds, and given aGeorgic ‘Georgic’ ‘A’. At 13 he went on to top class top class almost two years later at Eton. At 16 he was admitted to Eton’s art and art history course. At 17 he was taught by Michael Kidson; he obtained three “A” grades in art, History and History. At 18 he was given a “B” grade in art and history, and then three ‘C’ levels in History and Economics. At 19 he was sent to Oxford to study at the University of Oxford, where he graduated with a � ‘B’ level in History. He then went to work for Carlton Communications in London, before becoming an MP in 2001. He served in the opposition shadow cabinet under Conservative leader Michael Howard, and succeeded Howard in 2005. His 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. His administration introduced large-scale changes to welfare, immigration policy, education, and healthcare.
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