David Cameron has made a brief re-entry into British politics as he takes up post as President of Alzheimer Research UK, and he’s urging his successor, Theresa May, to keep his promise to fully fund research into a cure.
It’s a worthy cause, but it speaks directly to an underreported headache for the government. Cameron’s premiership will be remembered for its ending, and his unwanted epitaph will be that of the Prime Minister who took Britain out of Europe by accident. But most of its life was defined by cuts to public sector spending: austerity, in other words. Now, in retirement, he’s decided that his political priority is campaigning for extra funding: anti-austerity.
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