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For the Record
David Cameron

‘The political memoir of the decade’ Sunday Times The referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first time, the man who called that vote talks about the decision and its origins, as well as giving a candid account of his time at the top of British politics. David Cameron was Conservative Party leader during the largest financial crash in living memory. The Arab Spring and the Eurozone crisis both started during his first year as prime minister. The backdrop to his time in office included the advent of ISIS, surging migration and a rapidly changing EU. Here he talks about how he confronted those challenges, from modernising a party that had suffered three successive electoral defeats to forming the first coalition government for seventy years. He sets out how he helped turn around Britain’s economy, implementing a modern, compassionate agenda that included education and welfare reform, the legalisation of gay marriage, the referendum on Scottish independence and world-leading environmental policies. David Cameron is searingly honest about the key players from his time in politics. And he is frank about himself – the things he got right and the things he got wrong. He opens up about family life too, including the tragic loss of his eldest son. We learn why he kept Britain’s promise on overseas aid spending and what it was like to commit British troops to conflicts in Libya, Iraq and Syria. He sets out how he won the first outright Conservative majority in nearly a quarter of a century, and describes the events leading up to the EU referendum, the renegotiation, the campaign – and his thoughts on it all today. It is the most compelling record yet of what it’s like to lead in modern times and to live behind the most famous door in the world.

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William Collins

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This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2019

Copyright © David Cameron 2019

The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Cover photograph © Chris Floyd

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Source ISBN: 9780008239282

Ebook Edition: September 2019 ISBN: 9780008239305

Version: 2019-10-02

Dedication (#u789047ca-ff68-5fa2-b8c8-a01b5b90a4e0)

For Samantha

Contents

1  Cover (#u268c1c65-b6a2-514e-8daf-67fd1f042ae6)

2  Title Page

3  Copyright

4  Dedication

5  Contents (#u789047ca-ff68-5fa2-b8c8-a01b5b90a4e0)

6  List of Illustrations

7 Foreword

8  1 Five Days in May

9 2 A Berkshire Boy

10  3 Eton, Oxford … and the Soviet Union

11  4 Getting Started

12  5 Samantha

13  6 Into Parliament

14  7 Our Darling Ivan

15  8 Men or Mice?

16  9 Hoodies and Huskies

17  10 Cliff Edge, Collapse and Scandal

18  11 Going to the Polls

19  12 Cabinet Making

20  13 Special Relationships

21  14 Afghanistan and the Armed Forces

22  15 Budgets and Banks

23  16 Nos 10 and 11 – Neighbours, Friends and Families

24  17 Progressive Conservatism in Practice

25  18 Success and Failure

26  19 Party and Parliament

27  20 Leveson

28  21 Libya and the Arab Spring

29  22 Referendum and Riots

30  23 Better Together

31  24 Treaties and Treadmills

32  25 Omnishambles

33  26 Coalition and Other Blues

34  27 Wedding Rings, Olympic Rings

35  28 Resignations and Reshuffles

36  29 Bloomberg

37  30 The Gravest Threat

38  31 Sticking to ‘Plan A’

39  32 Love is Love

40  33 A Slow-Moving Tragedy

41  34 Leading for the Long Term

42  35 A Distinctive Foreign Policy

43  36 The Long Road to 2015

44  37 Junckernaut

45  38 A ‘Small Island’ in a Small World

46  39 Back to Iraq

47  40 Scotland Remains

48  41 The Sweetest Victory

49  42 A Conservative Future?

50  43 Rolling Back the Islamic State

51  44 Trouble Ahead

52  45 Renegotiation

53  46 Referendum

54  47 The End

55  Picture Section

56  Index

57  About the Author

58  About the Publisher

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List of Illustrations (#u789047ca-ff68-5fa2-b8c8-a01b5b90a4e0)

With John Major (Neil Libbert)

Norman Lamont gives a press conference on Black Wednesday (Bott/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

Campaign in Witney for leader of the Conservative Party (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

With Samantha, Ivan, Elwen, Nancy (Tom Stoddart/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Conservative party conference in Blackpool (Jeff Overs/BBC News & Current Affairs/Getty Images)

Press conference after the second ballot for the 2005 leadership contest (Bruno Vincent/Getty Images)

Leadership election win (Bruno Vincent/Getty Images)

Sudan visit (Andrew Parsons/PA Images)

With George Osborne (Andrew Parsons)

Dog sled in Svalbard, Norway (Andrew Parsons/PA Images)

Speaking on Big Society (Andrew Parsons)

In Balsall Heath with Abdullah Rehman (James Fletcher)

With Boris Johnson (Andrew Parsons)

Statement at St Stephen’s Club on the possibility of a hung Parliament (Lefteris Pitarakis/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Watching Gordon Brown’s resignation (Andrew Parsons)

Arrival in Downing Street with George Osborne and William Hague (Andrew Parsons)

First press conference with Nick Clegg after the coalition agreement (Andrew Parsons)

The door of Number 10 with Margaret Thatcher (Andrew Parsons)