David Cameron’s “Big Society” is still very much with us
As the UK braces for Liz Truss’s austerity 2.0, charities are still picking up the welfare slack from the first…
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What Tory leadership candidate would dare make David Cameron’s pitch today?
Revisiting the former prime minister’s original message in 2005 shows how much the Tories have changed for the worse.
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The rise and fall of Lex Greensill
How David Cameron’s favourite banker became the focus of a billion-dollar scandal.
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David Cameron’s naivety left Putin free to act as he pleased
The former prime minister assumed that he could separate Putin’s acts of aggression in eastern Europe from Russia and the…
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The “green crap” cut by David Cameron has added £2.5bn to UK energy bills
Energy bills are significantly higher than they would have been had the Conservatives not cut green measures.
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Was David Cameron a good prime minister?
From May to Thatcher, Stephen Bush and Jonn Elledge explore the tenures of previous leaders in a six-part series from…
We should be more generous to our former prime ministers – and, yes, that includes David Cameron
The US reveres its past presidents, while we banish our leaders into a purgatory of forced retirement.
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Greensill: how far will the lobbying scandal go?
Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss the latest in UK politics on the New Statesman podcast
What the David Cameron lobbying scandal reveals about UK politics
Exploring the hidden underbelly of the Westminster machine
Grown-up European or hero to the backbenchers? Cameron can’t be both
It does Britain no good to look like the sulky teenager of Europe.
ByCameron has outsourced worrying about compassion. He’ll regret it
Iain Duncan Smith’s fretting about poverty is no replacement for an empathetic prime minister.
ByKing David struggles to control his cabinet of wayward barons
While the New Labour project was staffed with card-carrying Blairites, it is hard to identify ardent
ByFull transcript | David Cameron | Statement on public disorder | House of Commons | 11 August 2011
“This is not about poverty, it’s about culture. A culture that glorifies violence, shows disrespect
ByCameron’s Murdoch missteps
There are only so many times that a prime minister can afford to be completely wrong.
ByLoser: Danny Alexander
The scene: 10 Downing Street, every week or so Cameron: So, this new policy of ours is going to reeeally annoy…
ByWinner: David Cameron
Okay, so he didn’t actually win anything. Even with Labour’s polls flatlining from the end of 2007, the backing of…
ByCameron promises crackdown on benefit fraud
PM promises new measures to tackle “outrageous” £5.2bn cost of fraud and error.
ByCouncil homes for life could go, says Cameron
Prime Minister signals the end of lifetime tenancy, as he warns that impact of cuts is here to stay.
ByTory lead cut to just one point in new poll
Latest ComRes poll puts Tories down two to 32 per cent, just a point ahead of the Lib Dems.
ByBarack Obama attacks David Cameron. Well, almost
Have you seen his ally John Podesta’s critique of the Tories’ EU policy?
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