David Cameron
Posted by: Bev39 - 9/10/2010
Position: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Country: United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Affiliation: Other
Website: http://pm-davidcameron.com
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron
Bio
David William Donald Cameron ( born 9 October 1966) is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, and Leader of the Conservative Party. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney.
Cameron studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree. He then joined the Conservative Research Department and became Special Adviser to Norman Lamont, and then to Michael Howard. He was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications for seven years.
A first candidacy for Parliament at Stafford in 1997 ended in defeat, but Cameron was elected in 2001 as the Member of Parliament for the Oxfordshire constituency of Witney. He was promoted to the Opposition front bench two years later, and rose rapidly to become head of policy co-ordination during the 2005 general election campaign. With a public image of a young, moderate candidate who would appeal to young voters, he won the Conservative leadership election in 2005.
In the 2010 general election held on 6 May, the Conservatives gained a plurality of seats in a hung parliament and Cameron was appointed Prime Minister on 11 May 2010, at the head of a coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. At the age of 43, Cameron became the youngest British Prime Minister since the Earl of Liverpool 198 years earlier. The Cameron Ministry is the first coalition government in the United Kingdom since the Second World War.
David Cameron is the younger son of retired stockbroker Ian Donald Cameron and his wife Mary Fleur (née Mount, born 1934, a retired JP, daughter of Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet). Cameron's parents married on 20 October 1962 and are both alive. He was born in London, and brought up in Peasemore, Berkshire. Cameron has a brother, Allan Alexander (born 1963, a barrister and QC) and two sisters, Tania Rachel (born 1965) and Clare Louise (born 1971). His father was born at Blairmore House near Huntly in Scotland. Blairmore was built by his great-great-grandfather, Alexander Geddes, who had made a fortune in the grain business in Chicago, and had returned to Scotland in the 1880s. The Cameron family is a member of the ancient Scottish Clan Cameron seated in the Inverness area of the Scottish Highlands. Cameron has English, Scottish, and, more distantly, German and Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.
Key Beliefs
- Tax cuts
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Justice
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Policy making
Key Accomplishments
- Cameron led the Conservatives to their best performance since the 1992 election
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At age 43, Cameron became the youngest British Prime Minister
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Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications