With the changing political environment in the UK, the country’s foreign policy push needed a top shot. In an unusual return to high office for an ex-leader, former UK PM David Cameron has been appointed as the new foreign secretary.
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00:00 With the changing political environment in the UK, the country's foreign policy push
00:07 needed a top shot.
00:08 In an unusual return to high office for an ex-leader, former UK Prime Minister David
00:13 Cameron has been appointed as the new Foreign Secretary.
00:16 Downing Street announced his return to the British political sphere.
00:19 The unexpected appointment of the former PM comes after Suella Braverman was dismissed
00:24 as Home Secretary and James Cleverley was appointed to replace her, leaving the top
00:30 job open at the Foreign Office.
00:31 David Cameron was Britain's leader from 2010 to 2016 before quitting after losing the Brexit
00:38 referendum.
00:39 In an unexpected move, he now replaces James Cleverley, who was appointed Interior Minister.
00:44 David Cameron's return to UK politics has now opened discourse about his activities
00:49 in the last seven years.
00:51 His unexpected return to the front line of British politics comes after he spent the
00:54 last seven years writing his memoirs and involving himself in business, including Greensill Capital.
01:01 Greensill Capital was a finance firm which later collapsed.
01:05 The firm has collapsed fuelling questions about the extent to which former leaders can
01:09 use their status to influence government policy, as David Cameron repeatedly contacted senior
01:14 ministers back in 2020 to lobby for the firm, as per reports.
01:19 On Monday, UK Prime Minister Nishish Tanak's office said that King Charles had approved
01:23 giving Cameron a seat in the House of Lords, allowing him to return to government as a
01:27 minister despite no longer being an elected member of the Parliament.
01:30 The government said that Cameron will be appointed to Parliament's unelected upper chamber.
01:35 It marks the return to government of a leader brought down by Britain's decision to leave
01:39 the European Union.
01:40 Cameron called the 2016 EU membership referendum confident the country would vote to stay in
01:45 the bloc.
01:46 On the following day, after voters opted to leave, Tanak was a strong backer of the winning
01:51 Leave side in the referendum.
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