David Cameron's tenure as Foreign Secretary

David Cameron in his 2023 official portrait
David Cameron's tenure as Foreign Secretary 13 November 2023 – 5 July 2024
Party	Conservative
Nominated by	Rishi Sunak
Appointed by	Charles III
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Former Prime Minister David Cameron served as foreign secretary from 2023 until 2024. As a member of Rishi Sunak's Conservative government, Cameron was appointed to the role during the November 2023 cabinet reshuffle. His tenure as Foreign Secretary was dominated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Israel–Hamas war, and the Gaza–Israel conflict and humanitarian crisis. He visited 35 countries and territories during his tenure as Foreign Secretary, and was succeeded by David Lammy of the Labour Party.

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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.