David Cameron's tenure as Foreign Secretary 13 November 2023 – present | |
Party | Conservative |
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Nominated by | Rishi Sunak |
Appointed by | Charles III |
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Former Prime Minister David Cameron has served as foreign secretary since 2023. As a member of Rishi Sunak's government, Cameron was appointed to the role during the November 2023 cabinet reshuffle. His tenure as Foreign Secretary has been dominated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war, and the Gaza–Israel conflict and humanitarian crisis. He has visited 35 countries and territories during his tenure as Foreign Secretary.
As Cameron was not a sitting MP at the time of his appointment, he received a life peerage, thus making him a member of the House of Lords. Cameron is the first former prime minister to be appointed to a ministerial post since Alec Douglas-Home in 1970, and the first former prime minister to be raised to the peerage since Margaret Thatcher.[1] He was created Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, of Chipping Norton in the County of Oxfordshire on 17 November 2023. Cameron has been deputised in the House of Commons by Andrew Mitchell, who was appointed to the honorific title of Deputy Foreign Secretary on 12 April 2024.
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