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Cameron at 10: From Election to Brexit
Anthony Seldon
Peter Snowdon
The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron’s government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, George Osborne and Boris Johnson.Spanning the early days of the coalition to a bitterly contested general election, and ending with the astonishing EU Referendum story, ‘Cameron at 10’ tells the full story of a momentous premiership. From riots in London to the withdrawal from Afghanistan to the gambles of two seismic referenda – the youngest prime minister since 1812 faced an exceptionally turbulent period in British politics. With insights into his relationships with EU leaders, the Brexit camp and Barack Obama, this is the essential blueprint for understanding the rise and fall of the Cameron government.
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Version: 2016-07-05
Dedication (#uba0a51dd-dc28-5d4d-a78f-deb473deec82)
To Julia Snowdon and Joanna Seldon
Contents
Cover (#u15b0b51f-42d9-5c13-a914-7f681247f251)
Title Page (#ulink_b0fc5015-e4e3-5076-a45b-32fce6250b28)
Copyright (#ulink_744bbb31-aa43-5839-8f8e-8dee637ecb6d)
Frontispiece (#ulink_22a06c74-a4b7-50e0-9837-a64f8932e01c)
Dedication (#ulink_a5e75c64-6790-5766-9d30-10c26274269e)
List of Illustrations (#ulink_65e1ff32-950c-57d2-acad-2d6109f9eac3)
Dramatis Personae (#ulink_63ccf29c-ede5-5389-aed3-4cadc6c16117)
Introduction to the Paperback Edition: Cameron at 10: 2010–16: The Verdict (#ulink_103fb19b-9ef0-5109-b422-097852e86375)
1 First Night in Downing Street: 11 May 2010 (#ulink_c0ddc897-0393-5ea5-9700-2b2c555a5adf)
2 Origin of ‘Plan A’: September 2008– February 2010 (#ulink_7080ea0a-3fa7-5ce9-83f2-3a664ccbe4cc)
3 ‘If we win’: 6–12 May 2010 (#ulink_0e1d353e-5d87-533c-8bdb-b5dfe375574a)
4 Delivering Plan A: May–October 2010 (#ulink_89d536a5-9691-54cd-ab4f-968e7e1051f3)
5 Bloody Sunday Statement: 15 June 2010
6 Chequers Summit on Afghanistan: June 2010
7 Life and Death in the Cameron Family: February 2009–September 2010
8 Coulson Departure: May 2010–February 2011
9 Taking on Gaddafi: February–September 2011
10 AV Referendum: Coalition Buckles: January–May 2011
11 Scottish Referendum Call: May 2011–February 2012
12 London Riots: August 2011
13 The Big Society and Beyond: May 2010–April 2012
14 The EU: Back Burner to Veto: May 2010–December 2011
15 The NHS Debacle: November 2009–September 2012
16 Cameron and Obama: March 2012
17 Omnishambles Budget: March 2012
18 Olympian Summer, Olympian Difficulties: May–September 2012
19 Lords and Boundaries: January–December 2012
20 Halfway Point: Autumn Blues: September–December 2012
21 Cameron Pledges a Referendum: April 2012–February 2013
22 Gay Marriage Saga: October 2011–July 2013
23 Lynton to the Rescue?: January 2013–October 2014
24 Warfare Over Welfare: May 2010–December 2014
25 The Darkest Hour Before Dawn: January–June 2013
26 The Iron Lady’s Long Shadow: April 2013
27 Maximum Danger: Syria Vote: August 2013
28 Essay Crisis Autumn: September 2013–February 2014
29 China Warms, Russia Cools: October 2013–March 2014
30 2014 Budget: Powering the North: March 2014–February 2015
31 The UKIP Challenge: 2013–2014
32 The Gove Reshuffle: July 2014
33 Scotland Decides: September 2014
34 EU Tribulations: January–June 2014
35 Final Autumn: September–December 2014
36 Controlling Immigration: November 2014
37 Farewell Washington: January 2015
38 A Diminished Britain?: September 2014–March 2015
39 The Coalition Endures: November 2014–March 2015
40 ‘If we lose’: March–May 2015
41 ‘The sweetest victory’: 7–8 May 2015
42 Road to Nowhere: May 2015–June 2016
43 Full Circle: 23–24 June 2016 (#u7356df6e-2c25-5c61-aba9-c507e33f9258)
Acknowledgements (#ulink_8542ca33-174a-5315-8cbd-d479f20d98bd)
Bibliography (#ulink_848c3db9-6cbc-5325-9d53-a3fb9439c7f6)
Notes (#ulink_21d8c87a-4780-576d-a3f9-8f90448c8380)
Index (#ulink_1aef7cff-aa73-5148-ae20-f246b23ec69a)
By Anthony Seldon and Peter Snowdon (#ulink_18ff9625-bc89-58b0-a4dc-a8281ee28c4a)
About the Publisher (#uc95f985c-539c-5dfc-8255-2fd8183f8aa6)
List of Illustrations (#uba0a51dd-dc28-5d4d-a78f-deb473deec82)
Frontispiece: Cameron and his team inside Number 10 on the morning after the Scottish Referendum, 19 September 2014. Craig Oliver and Kate Fall are on the left of the picture (© Crown Copyright/Arron Hoare)
Chapter 1: David and Samantha Cameron enter Number 10 after winning the general election, 11 May 2010 (© Andrew Parsons/i-Images)
Chapter 2: David Cameron and William Hague at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, 30 September 2008 (© Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Chapter 3: David Cameron and Nick Clegg inside Number 10 (© Andrew Parsons/i-Images)
Chapter 4: George Osborne leaves 11 Downing Street to deliver his first Budget as chancellor, 22 June 2010 (© ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy)
Chapter 5: People cheer outside the Guild Hall in Londonderry, Northern Ireland as David Cameron reads a statement on the Bloody Sunday inquiry, 15 June 2010 (© Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty Images)
Chapter 6: David Cameron addresses British soldiers at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province on 11 June 2010 (© Stefan Rousseau/AFP/Getty Images)
Chapter 7: David Cameron embraces his father Ian in Swindon, 18 April 2010 (© Toby Melville/WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Chapter 8: Andy Coulson leaves Number 10 following his resignation on 21 January 2011 (© Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
Chapter 9 : Nicolas Sarkozy speaks to the crowd in Benghazi as David Cameron listens, 15 September 2011 (© Philippe Wojazer/AFP/Getty Images)
Chapter 10: David Cameron before delivering a speech against a proposed change to the UK voting system on 18 April 2011 (© Oli Scarff/WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Chapter 11: David Cameron meets Alex Salmond during talks on the Scottish independence referendum in St Andrews House in Edinburgh, 16 February 2012 (© David Cheskin/WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Chapter 12: David Cameron talks to Acting Borough Commander Police Superintendent Jo Oakley in Croydon on 9 August 2011, following the London riots (© Stefan Rousseau/AFP/Getty Images)
Chapter 13: Steve Hilton arrives in Downing Street on 21 February 2012 (© Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
Chapter 14: David Cameron greets Angela Merkel outside Chequers, 30 October 2010 (© Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images)
Chapter 15: David Cameron, press officer Gabby Bertin and operations head Liz Sugg leave after meeting workers at Dudley Ambulance Station on 5 May 2010 (© Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
