David Cameron has struggled with some of his business initiatives since leaving Downing Street.
David Cameron, who aided Lex Greensill, is caught up in a lobbying scandal that will scotch any hope of restoring a reputation ruined by Brexit
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Prime minister for six years, then MP for 61 days—from the archive, how Cameron's legacy has been marred by Brexit
David Cameron's ruined legacy Mr Cameron’s tenure will be defined by a nation-changing misstep
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Radical Cameron - 100 days in, August 12th 2010
Britain has embarked on a great gamble, pitting conservatives and liberals together to form a new kind of government. Sooner or later, many other rich-world countries will have to take it too
http://www.economist.com/node/21521677 "The most disastrous premiership since Chamberlain is about to draw to a brutally abrupt end. Cameron is a failure on his own terms, as well as the terms of his opponents. The historical revisionists will one day come, and – for the sake of contrarianism – try to salvage Cameron from a wreckage of his own making. Don’t bother."
David Cameron’s premiership is a tragedy for which we will all pay He failed his own fiscal targets and leaves a bitterly divided country in crisis, with the union at risk of splitting, after gambling our future on the EU…
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He broke Britain
Goodbye David Cameron: The Worst Prime Minister in a Hundred Years INDEPENDENT.CO.UK
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...Although leaving Europe was not the path I recommended, I am the first to praise our incredible strengths.
I said before that Britain can survive outside the European Union and indeed that we could find a way.
Now the decision has been made to leave, we need to find the best way and I will do everything I can to help.
I love this country and I feel honoured to have served it and I will do everything I can in future to help this great country succeed.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36619446
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"Financial chaos, economic crisis, the likely breakaway of Scotland and possibly Northern Ireland: quite a morning’s work for the Bullingdon Club."
Cameron has lost his job – his Teflon cockiness has finally worn off As the pound plunges and the markets slide, remember that this entire…
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The Tories were in despair when David Cameron took over in 2005. In the eyes of voters the party was too curmudgeonly, exclusive and right-wing to be put in charge of Britain. Mr Cameron set about trying to change that. Emboldened and strengthened by his electoral triumph, the prime minister has set out to finish what he began a decade ago
http://econ.st/1Fi2CPr 
David Cameron’s big embrace Emboldened and strengthened by his electoral triumph, the prime minister sets out to finish what he began a decade ago
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Few people even in Conservative HQ thought that their party could possibly come out of Britain’s general election with a clearer mandate than it had going in. Yet that is what appears to have happened. But such is the ragged state of British politics that David Cameron looks condemned to preside over a government that will be weaker than the coalition he has run for the past five years, even as this election has deepened the problems Britain faces. The Tories must strengthen a fragile economy, manage the uncertainty of a referendum on Europe and salvage a union with Scotland that is falling apart
http://econ.st/1GSOkBq 
Cam again FEW people even in Conservative HQ thought that their party could possibly come out of Britain’s general election with a clearer...
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圖／英國首相卡麥隆倫敦街頭步行 送女兒上幼稚園
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政治領袖通常給人留下的都是滿臉嚴肅，不苟言笑的印象。近日，英國每日郵報網站刊發了一組英國首相卡麥隆送自己三歲的女兒上幼稚園的照片。
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政治領袖通常給人留下的都是滿臉嚴肅，不苟言笑的印象。近日，英國每日郵報網站刊發了一組英國首相卡麥隆送自己三歲的女兒上幼稚園的照片。
根據中國廣播網報導，在接受記者訪問時，卡麥隆稱，他希望自己在成為一個稱職的領導人的同時，也是一個和妻子共同分擔育兒責任的好丈夫以及孩子心中的好父 親。由於工作的特殊性，卡麥隆並沒有太多的時間和家人在一起。盡管如此，他還是會爭取每周都送一次女兒，有時候兩周一次，工作忙時可能是一月一次。而每次 送女兒去幼稚園，卡麥隆都會和女兒『腳踏實地』地穿行在倫敦的大街小巷。在將女兒送到幼稚園後，卡麥隆又會急匆匆地趕回首相府處理公務。
盡管有人認為這是一種政治作秀，但卡麥隆的這一舉動卻得到了岳母的認可。卡麥隆的岳母－－從事珠寶和室內設計的安娜貝爾·阿斯特女士認為做一個全職太太是 一件非常無聊的事情，她從沒想過要因為孩子的事情而放棄自己的工作，同樣她也不希望自己的孩子－－首相夫人成為一個全職媽媽。
英國首相卡梅倫步行送女兒上幼稚園。
英國首相卡梅倫步行送女兒上幼稚園。
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25 April 2012
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Murdoch says Gordon Brown declared war on his company, but was not 'in a very balanced state of mind'
Ex-Labour
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has denied News Corp chairman Rupert
Murdoch's claim that he threatened to "make war" on the media company.
Mr Murdoch told the Leveson Inquiry Mr Brown had phoned him in 2009 after the Sun moved to back the Conservatives.
He quoted Mr Brown as saying: "Well, your company has
declared war on my government and we have no alternative but to make war
on your company."
But later, Mr Brown responded by saying the allegation was "wholly wrong".
Mr Murdoch had claimed that Mr Brown had not been in a "balanced state of mind" when he made the phone call.
Mr Brown said he did not phone, meet, or write to Mr Murdoch about the Sun's decision to support the Conservatives.
"The only phone call I had with Mr Murdoch in the last year
of my time in office was a phone call specifically about Afghanistan and
his newspaper's coverage of the war," he said.
"I hope Mr Murdoch will have the good grace to correct his account."
In his written witness statement to the inquiry, Mr Murdoch
described attending breakfast and lunches with Mr Brown in which
politics and policy were discussed. He added: "I am afraid that my
personal relationship with Mr Brown suffered after the Sun no longer
supported him politically."
Mr Murdoch said he had frequently met Tony Blair when he was prime minister.
The media mogul said he regarded Mr Blair as a personal
friend and enjoyed speaking to him before, during and after his time as
prime minister.
In his written statement, he recalled the then-Labour leader
speaking "convincingly about the ability of a new Labour Party to
energise Britain" at a News Corp conference in 1995.
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This evidence session was an opportunity, Rupert Murdoch declared, "to put certain myths to bed".
High up on his list was the idea that he uses his papers and
his contact with politicians to further his commercial ambitions.
Hitting the desk at one point, he insisted, "In 10 years I never asked
Mr Blair for anything. Nor did I receive any favours".
Rupert Murdoch, according to Rupert Murdoch, is a man who
doesn't know many politicians and who has never asked a PM for anything.
His proudest achievement is clearly the success of the Sun newspaper -
ministers seeking an insight into his thinking should read the
tabloid's editorials.
The evidence of one Murdoch has already imperilled the
political future of one cabinet minister. The evidence of another, has
not so far badly damaged the standing of any others.
But there's always tomorrow.
Rupert Murdoch, after all, is a man who by his own admission, is not good at holding his tongue.
"Mr Blair did not expressly
request our support in 1995, 1997 or any other election, but he was a
politician and I had no doubt that he would welcome the support of our
newspapers and our readers," he said.
"I want to say that I, in 10 years of his power, never asked Mr Blair for anything.
"Nor indeed did I receive any favours. If you want to check that, I think you should call him."
Meanwhile, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's special adviser
Adam Smith has quit after Rupert Murdoch's son James on Tuesday revealed
details of contacts between Mr Smith and senior figures at News Corp,
while the firm was bidding to take control of BSkyB.
But Mr Hunt has rejected calls for him to resign, telling the
Commons he had "strictly followed due process" in overseeing the bid.
In his written statement, Mr Murdoch said he first met David
Cameron, who was then Leader of the Opposition, at a family picnic at
his daughter's country home.
They did not discuss politics as they were surrounded by
children, Mr Murdoch said. Mr Cameron visited him at his offices in
Wapping, east London, some time later at the Tory leader's request.
Mr Murdoch said: "Mr Cameron, since his election as prime
minister, I have met principally in social settings, where little of
substance was discussed."
The News Corp chairman said he could not remember meeting Mr
Cameron on a yacht near the Greek island of Santorini in August 2008,
but that his wife Wendi could.
'A complete myth'
Counsel to the inquiry Robert Jay QC asked Mr Murdoch if he
had discussed policy such as broadcasting regulations with Mr Cameron.
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"Mr Jay, you keep inferring that
endorsements were motivated by business motives and if that had been the
case we would have endorsed the Conservative Party in every election,"
he said. "But I didn't. I was interested in issues."
"I want to put it to bed once and for all, that that is a
complete myth… that I used the influence of the Sun or the supposed
political power to get favourable treatment."
He said the perception of his influence over politicians irritated him.
"Because I think it's a myth. And, everything I do every day I
think proves it to be such. Have a look at - well it's not a problem -
but how I treat Mayor Bloomberg in New York - sends him crazy. But, we
support him every time he runs for re-election."
Mr Murdoch also denied ever discussing with Mr Cameron News Corp's bid for the 61% of UK broadcaster BSkyB it did not own.
He said there was no link in his mind between his support for the Conservatives and News Corp's bid.
'Amusing guy'
Mr Murdoch said he had no strong feelings over the Scottish
National Party (SNP) - despite The Sun in Scotland backing them in the
last general election.
Rupert Murdoch on Mrs Thatcher: "I didn't expect any help from her, nor did I ask for any"
He denied that any deal had been done with the party's leader,
Alex Salmond, who he said was "an amusing guy" with whom he had a warm
relationship.
The inquiry yesterday considered claims made in an email from
a senior News Corp figure suggesting Mr Salmond would call Culture
Secretary Jeremy Hunt "whenever we need him to".
Mr Salmond denied any wrong-doing over the BSkyB takeover
bid, saying he would be "delighted" to appear before the Leveson
Inquiry.
Earlier, Mr Murdoch denied asking or being offered any
favours when he met then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at a lunch in
1981, at the same time his company was buying The Times and Sunday Times
newspapers.
He admitted he was a "great admirer" of Baroness Thatcher, whom the Sun supported in the 1979 general election.
Counsel Robert Jay QC suggested Mr Murdoch wanted to show Mrs
Thatcher he had the will to take on the unions over his bid for the
Times and Sunday Times.
But the media mogul replied: "I didn't have the will to crush
the unions, I might have had the desire, but that took several years."
'Lazy reporters'
Asked about the News of the World, which was forced to close
in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, Mr Murdoch said he was "sorry
to say" he "never much interfered" with it.
Mr Murdoch said he tried very hard to set an example of ethical behaviour and made it clear he expected it.
He said he did not believe in using hacking or private detectives because it was a "lazy way of reporters not doing their job".
But he added: "I think it is fair when people have themselves held up as iconic figures or great actors that they be looked at."
In his witness statement to the inquiry, Mr Murdoch also
confirmed that News Corporation's Management and Standards Committee was
co-operating with the US Department of Justice.
The news comes after reports that investigations into phone-hacking allegations could extend to the US authorities.
Row over Salmond BSkyB 'offer'