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Today in Focus

The return of David Cameron

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Former prime minister David Cameron has been installed as foreign secretary in Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle, in which Suella Braverman was also sacked from the cabinet. Pippa Crerar reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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This is the Guardian.

0:05.0

Today he's back.

0:08.0

Today he's back.

0:10.0

What the return of David Cameron says about the Tories and their future. Once upon a time in 2016, a Prime Minister named David Cameron made a fateful decision.

0:32.0

To put the question of the UK's membership in the EU to a referendum

0:36.6

hoping he could end it once and for all as a distraction for the Tories, so they could get on with governing.

0:45.6

On Monday, I will commence the process set out under our referendum act,

0:50.7

and I will go to Parliament and propose that the British people decide our future in Europe

0:57.0

through an in-out referendum on Thursday the 23rd of June.

1:02.0

The choice is in your hands. But his plan didn't work out.

1:07.0

The UK has voted to leave the European Union. Cameron decided he was done.

1:19.0

Cameron decided he was done.

1:21.0

On Wednesday I would attend the House Commons for Prime Minister's questions and then after

1:25.9

that I expect to go to the palace and offer my resignation so we'll have a new Prime Minister

1:30.9

in that building behind me by Wednesday evening. Thank you very much.

1:35.0

And he shuffled off into the political wilderness with a song in his step.

1:45.0

Right. The seven years since have been a roller coaster of different prime ministers.

1:53.0

A period of seemingly non-stop political turmoil

1:57.0

that's left the British government deeply unpopular

2:00.0

and politics feeling pretty broken.

2:02.0

And Rishi Sunak knows in the country's time of need

2:06.8

there's only one man who can fix it.

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