Biography of David Cameron

Renovations across the channel

October 9, 1966
David William Donald Cameron was born in London in the United Kingdom, on 9 October 1966. The new centre-right British political performer among young people in Europe, becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on day 11 May 2010. Reconstruct the origins of his family and tell its ties with the British aristocracy and, above all, with the same English Crown, is no easy feat, given the past centuries and various family plots. However, David Cameron needs to know that it certainly isn't from a humble background, as they say in some cases.
Her father is Ian Donald Cameron, who died in 2010, and for years stock-broker in the City of London, business savvy not insignificant and that allowed his four children to live in a more than wealthy. In addition, he himself comes from a family of large traders, led by his great-grandfather, who after having made a fortune by selling the grain in the United States, in the late nineteenth century had returned to Scotland, homeland of Cameron, building their residence there.
His wife, David's mother, her name is Mary Fleur Mount and is also a respectable professional, Justice of the peace and in turn daughter of Sir William Mount, known as "2nd Baronet Mount". But that's not all. According to sources, David Cameron is a direct descendant of King William IV of England, by his mistress Dorothea Jordan, which throws a further link between him and Queen Elizabeth II, although illegitimately, which does not, of course, no right of succession to dynastic level. Even between maternal and paternal grandparents, has many ties with the English aristocracy that most conservative wing of Parliament, policy area from which all of his family, even to the most distant ancestors. Young David spends his childhood and youth in the neighbourhood of Peasemore in Berkshire, together with his brother Alexander, Attorney for three years older than him, and the two sisters, Tania and Clare.
After the two senior figures from institutes and Winkfield Heatherdown where he started his education, David studying in prestigious private school Eton College, also in Berkshire, and became noted for the brilliant results. However at this time the teenager Cameron was also fined for an incident related to cannabis, of which he made use in those years, along with other classmates. The areas in which it excels are art, economics and, above all, politics. Thanks to the ability that shows these last two fields, it gains entrance exam at Oxford, which passes with flying colors.
He graduated in 1984, choosing to take almost a year off before beginning his college career in the most renowned British University. During this time, the young student earns a sort of apprenticeship with Congressman Tim Rathbone, getting access to some work in the House of Commons. Following this experience, a short stay in Hong Kong, this time following the father's colleague, Jardine Matheson. Returning from the Orient, stops in Moscow and in Yalta, during Soviet times. Oxford then studied at Brasenose College, under the leadership of liberal Vernon Bogdanor, who describes his years of apprenticeship academic as brilliant and rowdy. During the University period indeed David Cameron binds to the exclusive club of Bullingdon, appearing, together with the future Mayor of London Boris Johnson as one of the protagonists of some episodes of violence and devastation town, denounced and arrested for damage to private property. In 1988, despite these acts not really peaceful, Cameron graduated with full marks and honours. Soon after his graduation, he worked for the conservative Research Department, until 1993. Political strategists is among young people in the wake of the winning party in the elections of 1992, but lives also various vicissitudes not quite clear, with some internal disagreements which makes his protagonist.
For these reasons, the year after its release by the Department, in 1994, takes a job as Director of Carlton Communications. The experience lasts until 2001, and sees the future British Prime Minister lead a young and rampant media society among the first places in the field of digital communications, one of the founders of British Digital Broadcasting. The lure of politics though, coupled with a need for renewal of programs and generational conservative wing, leads him to "return to the field." These were the years of supremacy of the uk labour party, with Tony Blair to act as master of British politics. Meanwhile marries Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield, the day June 1, 1996 at Ginge Manor, Oxfordshire. From his wife the future head of British Government will have four children. On 6 December 2005, David Cameron is elected as the new leader of the Tory, following the resignation from its antecedent, Michael Howard. After five years, at 6 May 2010 general election, Cameron leads his party to the best result since 1992, the last year that earned him the Tory the English Parliament.
His work leads the conservatives to a relative majority, with 306 seats received: many, but not enough to get an absolute majority. In fact 20 seats are missing and unaccounted for this reason Cameron decides to agree to a coalition Government, which in England is called a "hung Parliament", or "hung Parliament". The agreement is entered into by the Prime Minister with the party of Liberal Democrats led by Nick Clegg. The day May 11, 2010 therefore, following the resignation of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, Queen Elizabeth II formally invites David Cameron to form a new Government. Just 43 years, Cameron is the youngest Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since Lord Liverpool, dating back to 1812. Confirming its intention to observe post-election agreements, which earned him the appointment as head of Government, the Prime Minister appoints, as one of its first Government initiatives, the leader of the liberal Democrats Nick Clegg as Deputy Chief Officer. During the riots in London in the summer of 2011, the exponent of the Tory is confirmed as an authoritarian leader, determined not to compromise with the criminals in the city, committed to set fire to homes and shops in London in July and August.
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