David Cameron
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• He served as the Leader of the Conservative Party from December 2005 to July 2016, and was Member of Parliament for Witney from June 2001 to September 2016
• Cameron identifies as a One-Nation Conservative, and has been associated with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies
• Born in London to wealthy upper middle-class parents, 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, s쳮ding 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
• 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, and legalised same-sex marriage