For the Record
‘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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Source ISBN: 9780008239282
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Version: 2019-10-02
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Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Dedication
5 Contents
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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