Davos 2024: David Cameron on Israel, Ukraine, and return to front-line Conservative politics
Power Play
POLITICO
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🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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In this episode, U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron sits down with Anne McElvoy at the World Economic Forum to discuss the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, Britain's role in the Israel-Hamas war, as well as Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine — which he says is his "absolute number one priority." Cameron adds, "One thing we can do is demonstrate during the course of this year that Putin isn't winning."
Cameron also addresses U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's controversial policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda to process their applications (known as the Rwanda policy) and reveals more about his return to front-line Conservative party politics, reflects on what it's like to be a former prime minister returning in a different role. "I say that being prime minister for six years was a good apprenticeship for being foreign secretary," he tells Anne.
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| 0:15.0 | slash governance. |
| 0:15.8 | One of the political big beasts at Davos this week is David Cameron, the UK's Foreign Secretary, |
| 0:25.7 | and as a former Prime Minister, he's no stranger to the annual Jamboree in the Swiss Alps. |
| 0:31.6 | Seven and a half years before the now ennobled Lord Cameron |
| 0:35.0 | departed the world stage in the wake of the Brexit vote for a quieter life |
| 0:39.2 | he's back and in just over two short months he's contended with two wars raging in Europe and the Middle East |
| 0:46.4 | and a new crisis in the Red Sea, threatening to drag the US and its allies, Britain |
| 0:51.7 | foremost among them, into a wider regional conflict. |
| 0:55.0 | I think the argument you sometimes get that there's nothing you can do, that all action |
| 1:00.8 | ends in failure. |
| 1:02.3 | I don't think that's the right answer. |
| 1:04.0 | Welcome to Power Play, |
| 1:08.0 | Politico's Transatlantic Podcast, |
| 1:10.0 | where we talk to some of the world's most influential people on either side of the Atlantic. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm Anne McElvoy and this week we're coming to you from the World Economic Forum. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm with the Foreign Secretary in an apartment looking out over those magisterial mountains. |
| 1:25.4 | Not too shabby. |
| 1:26.4 | Welcome to the show, David Cameron. |
| 1:28.8 | Great to be with you. |
| 1:31.2 | Back at Davos, but this time as Foreign Secretary, eventful a couple of months, he seemed to |
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