David Cameron

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## Politics

### Political party

(formerly) United DemocratsNew Union Party

### Ranks held

Foreign Minister 2009-2011Transport Minister 2011-2014 Education Minister 2005-2008

**David William Donald Cameron** is a British politician and businessman who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Britain from 2009 to 2011, and as Minister of Transport from 2011 to 2014. Previously he had served as Minister of Education from 2005 to 2008. Formerly a member of the United Democrats, he was a ringleader of the defections to the breakaway New Union Party in 2008. He was Member of the Common Assembly for Stafford from 2000 to 2017.

Born in 1966 to a comfortable background as the son of a Maximist judiciary official, Cameron studied Politics, Ideology and Economics at Oxford State University. His professors have recalled him an able and sensible student well-versed in syndicalist philosophies; Cameron himself claims that his studies convinced him early on of the ideology's flaws. Six weeks before his Finals, he was suspended from the University for several days - the reporter Tom Bower in 2015 claimed this was because a pamphlet written by Cameron highly critical of syndicalism was discovered by university staff. According to Bower, only an intervention by Cameron's mother, a senior judge, saved him from expulsion. Instead, the suspension was blamed on recreational drug usage, and Cameron graduated in 1987.

After leaving university he spent a year in the United Socialist States, working as a researcher in Congress. His stay there, coinciding with a period of political instability sparked by the death of Henry M. Jackson by heart attack, further convinced him of the flaws in the syndicalist system, according to a 2017 autobiography. From 1988 to 1992 he worked at the Ministry of Truth's Information Department, having risen to head of the political section by 1991. As the 1991-93 BSE epidemic began to gather pace, he was seconded to Chairman Arthur Scargill as a political advisor. By 1992, he was hired full time to work as a special advisor.

In 1994, the death of John Smith prompted a scramble for power as new leader of the Parliamentarian wing Tony Blair attempted to force a no-confidence vote in Scargill's leadership. In the weeks leading up to the vote, Cameron worked between 12 and 20 hours a day, sleeping at the house of Alan Duncan, an oil union executive and Scargill ally with a house in central London. Blair ultimately won the vote, forcing out Scargill in favour of himself; in a move that surprised Cameron, the new Chairman opted to retain his services as special advisor. Though initially sceptical, he was soon won over by the charm that Blair had deployed on so many other members of the politburo - Cameron found he supported much of the economic and political reforms Blair sought to implement, and so sought to aid the older man in his Third Way program.

The honeymoon period did not however last very long. Cameron soon found that, despite giving every sign of listening to what he had to say and understanding his advice, Blair almost never acted on his recommendations. The relationship between the two grew increasingly dysfunctional as he came to realise that the Chairman only kept him around for the sense of continuity he represented and the affirmation it gave to Blair of his own benevolence. Having never been privy to the regular talks of his inner circle, Blair began to freeze Cameron out of meetings entirely. Finally in 1996 he dismissed him, arranging for Cameron to be appointed a board member of Britelecom, one of the new state corporations set up by Blair as part of his 'regeneration' economic program.

Despite his exile from Govt, Cameron remained politically active, and by 1998 he had joined the nascent United Democrats as a campaign advisor to Kenny Ashdown. In the 1999 election he stood and won as the UD candidate for Stafford, thereafter entering the Common Assembly. He was appointed Minister for Immigration in Ashdown's first ministry, rising to become Deputy Home Minister in 2002 under Simon Hughes. Hughes later alleged that Cameron took advantage of the rivalry between his boss and Charles Kennedy, the then-Foreign Minister and Hughes' rival to succeed Ashdown, by offering his services to Kennedy as a mole in the Home Office; the result being that after Kennedy beat Hughes to succeed Ashdown in 2005, Cameron was elevated to the Cabinet as Minister of Education.

Though initially an ally of Kennedy, Cameron quickly began to drift away, and he was one of a number of Cabinet ministers reportedly involved in discussions to oust Kennedy in January 2006 after it was revealed he was receiving treatment for alcoholism. From the onset of the 2008 financial crisis, Cameron was amongst the more right-leaning members of the United Democrats who grew increasingly dissatisfied with the Govt's response to the recession. As a Cabinet minister, he assumed a leading role amongst the faction, though it was the charismatic junior minister Alan Duncan, Cameron's old associate, who was recognised as the group's leader. Ultimately, together with Duncan, Health Minister Theresa May and the Millennium Party's Philip Hammond, Cameron left the United Democrats to form the New Union Party. A stronger media performer than either May or Hammond, Cameron became Duncan's right-hand man; the latter trusted Cameron to deliver a crucial keynote speech at the 2008 CBI conference, which pundits recognise as having secured the vital support of the markets, and elevated him to Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs in his shadow cabinet. Following the results of the 2009 general election, Cameron was a key deal-broker in coalition talks with the Millennium Party, and he subsequently assumed the post of Foreign Minister in the new NU-MIL govt.

As Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cameron's tenure was dominated by events in Europe, amidst the Syndicalist Autumn. He led an unsuccessful international mission in 2009 to broker an end to the Second Spanish Civil War, and in 2010 he played a high-profile role as intermediary between the French and Russians in negotiating the dissolution of the IWAF. Yet as the coalition govt remained paralysed in the face of continued economic crisis, Duncan increasingly began to use his foreign minister as a human shield. Where his eminent self-confidence and slick presentation skills once inspired confidence from the electorate, they now more-and-more began to play on its nerves. Cameron saw his personal approval ratings dive alongside those of the coalition, whilst others in the Cabinet such as Financial Minister George Osborne and the now-Home Minister Theresa May began to eclipse him. For all his faults with the electorate, however, Cameron remained an effective campaigner, and when Duncan took to the polls in 2011 in an attempt to break the electoral deadlock, the foreign minister was a major part of the campaign.

The election's results, when they came, put Alan Duncan and Cameron in an extremely weak position. He took a role again in the formation of a coalition, this time with the United Democrats, but his enemies quickly began to circle. The UD called for Cameron's head as part of their terms, whilst Theresa May, increasingly powerful in the party, also sought to remove Cameron, her main rival for succeeding Duncan in the increasingly-likely event of his resignation. Eventually, worried that the UD might walk out of negotiations with the NU and instead form a coalition with Labour, Duncan acquiesced to their demands. Appointing the new coalition's Cabinet, the Minister-President replaced Cameron with Philip Hammond, an ally of May; yet unwilling to lose him completely, he moved his former right-hand man to the position of Minister of Transport.

Cameron as Transport Minister did not implement policies radically different from those of his predecessors - he presided over the continued rapid expansion of Britain's rail networks, as well as the construction of London City Airport on the site of the old London Docks. The 2013 December 20th disaster however is what ultimately defined his time in the office, and what brought his political career to an end. The scale of the disaster, which brought the entire country to standstill for hours and left 360 people dead, left the public hungry for a scapegoat and the government desperately searching for one. Already unpopular with the electorate, and with a credible share of the responsibility as Minister of Transport, Cameron was duly thrown to the wolves. Despite declaring he would remain in his role to offer continuity in the response to the disaster, in March 2014 the day after the announcement of a date for the inquiry into the events of December 20th, Cameron resigned. His stint on the backbenches thereafter was low-profile, and he announced ahead of the 2017 general election that he would not seek reelection to the Common Assembly.