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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron 00:02:50 1 Early life and career 00:03:00 1.1 Early family life 00:04:40 1.2 Education 00:08:19 1.3 Early political career 00:08:27 1.3.1 Conservative Research Department 00:10:43 1.3.2 Special Adviser to the Chancellor 00:13:41 1.3.3 Special Adviser to the Home Secretary 00:15:43 1.3.4 Carlton 00:17:07 1.3.5 Parliamentary candidacies 00:21:21 2 In office 00:21:30 2.1 Member of Parliament, 2001–05 00:25:11 2.2 Conservative Party leadership 00:25:21 2.2.1 2005 leadership election 00:28:08 2.2.2 Reaction to Cameron as Leader 00:30:39 2.2.3 Allegations of recreational drug use 00:31:21 2.3 Shadow Cabinet appointments 00:32:38 2.3.1 European Conservatives and Reformists 00:34:18 2.3.2 Shortlists for Parliamentary candidates 00:34:57 2.3.3 South Africa 00:36:06 2.3.4 Raising teaching standards 00:37:02 2.3.5 Expenses 00:38:53 2.4 2010 general election 00:39:59 3 Prime Minister (2010–2016) 00:42:52 3.1 Economy 00:43:54 3.2 Immigration 00:44:48 3.3 Defence and foreign affairs 00:44:58 3.3.1 Defence cuts 00:45:31 3.3.2 NATO military intervention in Libya 00:47:38 3.3.3 Falklands 00:48:27 3.3.4 Saudi Arabia 00:49:13 3.3.5 Sri Lanka 00:50:12 3.3.6 Turkey 00:51:16 3.3.7 Israel 00:53:15 3.3.8 Military intervention in Iraq and Syria 00:56:17 3.4 2015 general election 00:57:34 3.5 2016 referendum and resignation 01:00:47 4 Political views and image 01:00:57 4.1 Self-description of views 01:05:11 4.2 Home affairs 01:05:19 4.2.1 Poverty 01:06:21 4.2.2 LGBT rights 01:08:38 4.2.3 Comments on other parties and politicians 01:11:08 4.3 Foreign affairs 01:11:17 4.3.1 Iraq War 01:12:03 4.3.2 India 01:12:54 4.4 Political image 01:13:03 4.4.1 Allegations of social elitism 01:14:11 4.4.2 Plots against leadership 01:15:45 4.4.3 Cameron and Andy Coulson 01:17:48 4.4.4 Cameron and Lord Ashcroft 01:20:18 4.4.5 Standing in opinion polls 01:21:40 4.4.6 Evaluations of premiership 01:22:25 5 Post-premiership 01:22:35 5.1 Positions 01:23:39 5.2 Brexit 01:25:03 5.3 Memoir 01:25:53 6 In popular culture 01:26:11 7 Personal life 01:26:21 7.1 Family 01:29:33 7.2 Inheritance and family wealth 01:31:20 7.3 Leisure 01:32:07 7.4 Faith 01:32:38 8 Titles, honours and awards 01:33:05 9 Bibliography 01:34:06 10 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.892646385420115 Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-B "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= David William Donald Cameron (born 9 October 1966) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney from 2001 to 2016 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016. He identifies as a one-nation conservative, and has been associated with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies. Born in London to an upper-middle-class family, Cameron was educated at Heatherdown School, Eton College, and Brasenose College, Oxford. From 1988 to 1993 he worked at the Conservative Research Department, assisting the Conservative Prime Minister John Major, before leaving politics to work for Carlton Communications in 1994. Becoming an MP in 2001, he served in the opposition shadow cabinet under Conservative leader Michael Howard, and succeeded Howard in 2005. Cameron sought to rebrand the Conservatives, embracing an increasingly socially liberal position. The 2010 general election led to Cameron becoming Prime Minister as the head of a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats – the youngest holder of the office since the 1810s. His premiership was marked by the ongoing effects of the late-2000s financial crisis; these involved a large deficit in government finances that his government sought to reduce through austerity measures. His administration introduced large-scale changes to welfare, immigration policy, education, and healthcare. It privatised the Royal Mail and some other state assets, ... |