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Cameron resigned as Prime Minister on the 13th of July 2016 after the UK voted approximately 52% to 48% to leave the European Union in a referendum he had called. He had campaigned for Remain and said it would not be right for him to steer the country toward a destination he had opposed.
Cameron was forty-three years old when he became Prime Minister on the 11th of May 2010, making him the youngest holder of the office since Lord Liverpool in 1812 and beating the record previously set by Tony Blair in May 1997.
After leaving as Prime Minister, Cameron maintained a low public profile and took up various advisory and charitable roles, including serving as president of Alzheimer's Research UK from 2017 to 2023. In November 2023, Rishi Sunak appointed him Foreign Secretary; he was made Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton to allow him to serve from the House of Lords. He held the post until the Conservatives lost the 2024 general election.
During Cameron's premiership, financier Lex Greensill served as an unpaid government advisor with access to eleven departments. After leaving office, Cameron became a paid advisor to Greensill Capital, reportedly holding share options worth as much as $60 million and earning over $1 million per year for twenty-five days' work. A Panorama investigation found he earned around $10 million before tax for thirty months of part-time work. In 2019, he arranged a private meeting between Greensill and Health Secretary Matt Hancock, after which several NHS trusts used Greensill Capital's Earnd app.
Cameron was educated at Heatherdown School in Berkshire from the age of seven, then at Eton College from thirteen, where he passed twelve O-levels and three A levels with top grades. He went on to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Brasenose College, Oxford, graduating in 1988 with a first-class BA degree. His Oxford tutor was Vernon Bogdanor, who described him as "one of the ablest" students he had taught.
Cameron's austerity programme involved sustained reductions in public spending of approximately 5% of GDP over the coalition period, while protecting day-to-day budgets for the NHS, education, and international development. It included a VAT rise from 17.5% to 20% and corporation tax cuts from 28% to 19%. By 2015, the structural deficit as a percentage of GDP had roughly halved, though national debt rose from approximately 71% of GDP in 2010 to around 84% by 2016.