For the Record. David Cameron

      

Copyright

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2019

      Copyright © David Cameron 2019

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      Source ISBN: 9780008239282

      Ebook Edition: September 2019 ISBN: 9780008239305

      Version: 2019-10-02

Dedication

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      Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Dedication

      5  Contents

      6  List of Illustrations

      7 Foreword

      8  1 Five Days in May

      9 2 A Berkshire Boy

      10  3 Eton, Oxford … and the Soviet Union

      11  4 Getting Started

      12  5 Samantha

      13  6 Into Parliament

      14  7 Our Darling Ivan

      15  8 Men or Mice?

      16  9 Hoodies and Huskies

      17  10 Cliff Edge, Collapse and Scandal

      18  11 Going to the Polls

      19  12 Cabinet Making

      20  13 Special Relationships

      21  14 Afghanistan and the Armed Forces

      22  15 Budgets and Banks

      23  16 Nos 10 and 11 – Neighbours, Friends and Families

      24  17 Progressive Conservatism in Practice

      25  18 Success and Failure

      26  19 Party and Parliament

      27  20 Leveson

      28  21 Libya and the Arab Spring

      29  22 Referendum and Riots

      30  23 Better Together

      31  24 Treaties and Treadmills

      32  25 Omnishambles

      33  26 Coalition and Other Blues

      34  27 Wedding Rings, Olympic Rings

      35  28 Resignations and Reshuffles

      36  29 Bloomberg

      37  30 The Gravest Threat

      38  31 Sticking to ‘Plan A’

      39  32 Love is Love

      40  33 A Slow-Moving Tragedy

      41  34 Leading for the Long Term

      42  35 A Distinctive Foreign Policy

      43  36 The Long Road to 2015

      44  37 Junckernaut

      45  38 A ‘Small Island’ in a Small World

      46  39 Back to Iraq

      47  40 Scotland Remains

      48  41 The Sweetest Victory

      49  42 A Conservative Future?

      50  43 Rolling Back the Islamic State

      51  44 Trouble Ahead

      52  45 Renegotiation

      53  46 Referendum

      54  47 The End

      55  Picture Section

      56  Index

      57  About the Author

      58  About the Publisher

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