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David Cameron is a Conservative party politician and has been MP for Witney since June 2001. As of July 2009, Cameron is the Leader of the Opposition having assumed office in December 2005 following the resignation of previous leader Michael Howard. After being elected to parliament in 2001, Cameron served on the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, before in 2003 being appointed as shadow minister, and becoming vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party. In June 2005, Cameron was appointed Shadow Education Secretary, and in December of the same year, he won the Conservative Party leadership election. Under Cameron’s leadership, throughout 2008 to July 2009, the Conservatives have been ahead of the Labour Party consistently in the polls.

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Stabbed boy had speech for Cameron

09.07.08

Friends of David Idowu, stabbed to death apparently for wearing the wrong school uniform, say he was desperate to deliver an anti-knife speech he had written to David Cameron... more

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Cameron attended Eaton College where he attained 12 O-Levels, three A-Levels (all received grade A) and an S-Level. His Eton career has proven controversial, where it emerged he had been found to have smoked cannabis
Cameron is a graduate of Brasenose College, Oxford, receiving a first class honours degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)
Cameron is married to Samantha, who has given birth to three children. Their first child Ivan was born with the rare ‘Ohtahara syndrome,’ a combination of cerebral palsy and severe epilepsy, and died aged six years old in 2009
Cameron spent part of his gap year before Oxford in Russia (then the Soviet Union), where he was allegedly the subject of an attempted recruitment by the KGB, the Soviet Secret Service.
Cameron is the 5th cousin, twice removed of Queen Elizabeth II, as he is a direct descendant to King William IV and the King’s mistress, Dorothea Jordan

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