David Cameron: photo, biography

David Cameron is currently in the post of Prime Minister of Great Britain, and has been the leader of the Conservative Party since 2005. Throughout 1994-2001, he served as director of corporate communications at a well-known broadcasting company called Carlton Communications. It is also worth noting that from 1992 to 1994, David Cameron was a special adviser to the Interior Ministry. In addition, he was an advisor to the UK Treasury.

The growth of the British premier is 1.85 m.

Youth

David Cameron was born in 1966 on October 9 in London. His father, whose name is Jan Donald Cameron is a direct descendant of King William IV of England , and is also known in the business community as a major stockbroker. It is worth noting that among the close relatives of the current prime minister is quite a large number of various influential financiers.

David's mother was the daughter of a baronet, and several of her great-grandfathers and grandfathers held posts in the parliament from the Tory party. It is worth noting that the first few years of his life, David Cameron lived in the counties of Kensington and Chelsea, but over time, along with his parents moved to a small village called Pismor, which is next to Newbury.

Education

During the first years of his life, David Cameron (the photo of which was shown above) went to the prestigious preparatory school of Waterdoun, located in Winkfield. It is noteworthy that the sons of the current Queen Elizabeth II, as well as many children of British billionaires, were trained in the same school. For example, Peter Getty, a classmate and close friend of the British prime minister, is the son of a famous oil businessman, John Paul Getty.

According to the family tradition in 1979, David Cameron (photo number 2 at the university) decided to enter the elite college Eaton. At the same time in 1983, before he had to take the first final exams, he was caught in smoking marijuana. However, he confessed to the deed committed, and since he did not distribute the drug among other students, he was not expelled, but was forbidden to go outside the college for a certain time.

According to rumors, even before a turbulent political career, British Prime Minister David Cameron may have used heavy drugs, but these rumors are unconfirmed.

Despite the episode, David managed to pass the exams well enough, so he entered the Braznosis College at Oxford University, although he did not pass the philosophy well by going through the entrance exams. Before starting his studies in Oxford, British Prime Minister David Cameron had worked for nine months, three of whom he worked as an assistant to his godfather (then a member of parliament from the Conservative Party), and also took part in the debate in the House Communities. Then for three months, David lived and worked in Hong Kong for the company Jardine Matheson. From Hong Kong, he returned using railway transport, so he managed to visit Yalta and Moscow, where, according to him, he was offered to become an agent of the KGB of the USSR.

Further training

In Braznoz he studied for a bachelor of arts, listened to an interdisciplinary course on politics, economics and philosophy. It is worth noting the fact that the teachers spoke of David as one of the best students. In the process of teaching Cameron was a tennis team at the university, and also was an ordinary member of various closed elite clubs in Oxford. In 1988 he received a diploma of the first degree.

Carier start

September 26, 1988 on the political scene of England appears David Cameron. Politics for him began with a research department in which he was engaged in detailed development of his party's strategy, as well as the formation of various briefings for debates in parliament. Since 1991, Cameron was offered a post in the political department of the research department, and subsequently he was engaged in the immediate development of an economic strategy for his party, as well as writing speeches for Prime Minister Major, which he used during the 1992 elections, but Major himself spoke later , That he did not remember the young assistant.

After the Conservatives won the 1992 elections, David Cameron began working for the Chancellor of the Treasury, serving as his political adviser. The crisis that arose at the time led to a significant increase in taxes in the country, as well as a host of other negative consequences in the economy. It was the Chancellor of the Treasury who was then given full responsibility for these events, as a result of which he resigned, while Cameron, having retained his party trust, received the post of special adviser while working for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he was briefing the minister, who in the future became the leader of the Conservative Party .

Break

Next we'll look at the political break that David Cameron took (the biography briefly describes these events). In 1994, he left the post of special advisor and began working as director of corporate relations at the well-known company Carlton Communications, which at that time only acquired the rights of broadcasting in London. This position he received with the help of his bride Samantha Gwendolin. The fact that the mother of the bride personally knew the chairman of this company, so, at the request of his daughter, invited him to hire Cameron. In the course of his work, the future prime minister was able to provide the company with rights to digital satellite broadcasting, and also took direct part in the executive council. Subsequently, Green, who held the post of chairman of the company, said that Cameron was a worthy candidate for the board of directors, but instead decided to take part in the parliamentary elections.

Career in Parliament

It should be noted that before 2001, the name of "David Cameron" could also be on the list of candidates for parliament. Biography says that he tried to apply for participation in the elections in Ashford in 1994, but did not do so because of the late arrival of the train. In 1997, he could not win at the elections in Stafford, where at that time the candidate from the Labor Party won. It is also worth noting that in 2000, Cameron was not allowed to get on the list of candidates for the elections, and now he already wanted to be elected from Wilden.

In 2001, he won the election from the Whitney constituency, which took place after Sean Woodward decided to go to the Labor Party.

Work as an advisor

After Cameron was elected to the House of Commons. He headed a separate committee dealing with internal affairs. It was quite a prominent post, especially for a relatively young parliamentarian. David took an active part in the debate, which made him famous as an excellent speaker. It is known that Cameron made a proposal to reduce the responsibility for the sale and use of the drug "Ecstasy", and, as a hunter of the hunt, opposed the prohibition of hunting animals with dogs. Among other things, Cameron opposed the prohibition of smoking in restaurants, but he did not take part in voting on this issue, since at that time he had a child.

In March 2003, David Cameron actively supported an armed invasion of Iraq, but three years later he initiated the investigation of the validity of this action.

Becoming a Leader

Despite the fact that Cameron took an active part in the debate, the leader of the Conservative Party, Jan Duncan Smith, decided not to promote him to the forefront in 2002, as a result of which David opposed the fact that Smith remained the leader and even opposed the party's policy. In particular, he abstained from voting on the bill on the adoption of children by homosexual couples.

In 2003, Cameron was given the opportunity to enter the "shadow cabinet", where he became deputy shadow leader of the House of Eric Fort. In November of the same year, Smith resigned as chairman of the Conservative Party, as a result of which Cameron received the post of vice chairman at Michael Howard, who became the new leader. Occupying this post, he was responsible directly for coordinating the party's policy, and in 2005 he became the shadow minister of education.

Among other things, it should be noted that from 2002 until his rise to the post of leader of the Conservative Party, the future prime minister was also a non-executive director of the commercial company Urbium, which owned a large English network of bars called "Tiger Tiger".

Party leader

After the Labor Party won the general election, Michael Howard announced his resignation as leader of the party, as a result of which Cameron ran for this post and defeated his main opponent with a devastating result, gaining 66% of the vote. As leader of the opposition, he became a member of the Royal Privy Council of Great Britain the same year.

Already in the near future, after Cameron took over as leader of the opposition, according to the social polls of the population in 2007, he was rated higher than the then-current Prime Minister Tony Blair. After Blair announced his resignation the same year, the Laborites managed to retain their leadership by nominating new chairman Gordon Brown, but after 4 months, Cameron again had higher ratings, and support for conservatives among voters was the highest for the last 14 Years of existence of the party. It was then that Cameron called for early parliamentary elections, as well as repeatedly called Gordon Brown's old-fashioned policy, in every possible way criticizing the Labor's economic platform.

Active actions in the parliament

Cameron opposed the anti-terrorist law proposed by the Labor Party, as well as the introduction of specialized identification numbers. He always called himself a Eurosceptic and said that England is not obliged to submit to the foreign policy of the United States. In 2008, they made a proposal to increase the period of copyright for 20 years in exchange for the fact that the musicians would refuse to celebrate the misogyny, materialism and the cult of weapons.

In the conditions of the crisis that arose in 2008, the population of England decided that Labor's economic measures are effective, so that they again took the lead in social surveys.

Prime Minister

May 11, 2010, David Cameron is the Prime Minister of Great Britain. Experts have repeatedly said that his government is the first coalition since 1945, and the politician himself is the youngest prime minister in the past 200 years.

Becoming head of government, David Cameron began to actively promote the transfer of authority and power to the people from the center in order that local institutions and transport are controlled exclusively by local communities. Already in July, after his election to the post, he announced that such self-government was being established in only a few settlements.

Personal life

David Cameron (height and date of birth indicated at the beginning of the article) was engaged in active charitable work, and in particular, donated money for the rehabilitation of drug addicts, was the patron of a large number of charitable societies. It is worth noting that the prime minister goes to work on a bicycle, which even managed to steal in 2008.

In 1992, the future wife of the politician Samantha Gvendolin and David Cameron met. His wife appeared in 1996, when they decided to formally formalize relations. According to him, Samantha has a strong influence on her husband's political views.