The desperate return of the Cameroons
The adults are back in the room. It’s a shame they trashed it last time.
ByDavid Cameron
David Cameron is “a poster boy for elite capture by Beijing”
Bob Pickard, a whistleblower from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, says the new Foreign Secretary is a mark of British…
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Restoration of a loser
David Cameron’s appointment is a bafflingly inept move and a symptom of Tory exhaustion.
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Reshuffle special: (Lord) Cameron returns
Suella Braverman is out of government, and a shock appointment rocks Westminster.
Rishi Sunak has remembered he needs centrist voters too
David Cameron’s return shows the Prime Minister is no longer just pandering to the Brexiteer right.
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Mehdi Hasan on 110 years of the New Statesman: “David Cameron didn’t like me”
The MSNBC host recalls his time as the magazine’s senior editor (politics), 2009-2012.
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Martin Wolf: “Austerity and Brexit made everything worse”
The chief economics commentator of the Financial Times reflects on the failures of globalisation and how the UK became the…
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Sunak is finding Tory MPs ungovernable
The party has forced its latest victim of a prime minister into a succession of U-turns.
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Can anyone save the Tory party?
Many Conservative MPs seem either not to have noticed or not to care about the impending doom facing the party.
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Under Rishi Sunak the Tories have a mountain to climb – but they have a plan
If the PM can stop his party from collapsing and reduce the cost of living, then perhaps the next election…
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Sally Davies: “Anti-microbial resistance could kill us before the climate crisis does”
The former chief medical officer for England warns about the threat AMR poses to humanity – and why we need…
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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