Sunday 20 February 2011

David Cameron


David Cameron is the prime minister of the United Kingdom. This is the highest job in the UK government. He has done this job since May 2010, when the conservatives won an extra 100 seats in the general election.He was born in 1966 in London but was brought up in Berkshire. He went to the famous Eton school and then Oxford University where he studied philosophy politics and economics. Since 2000 David Cameron has been the MP for Witney in Oxfordshire. He held many senior posts in the Conservative part and became a member of the shadow cabinet in 2004.  After a cabinet reshuffle he became the Shadow Education Secretary. He became Leader of the Opposition in 2005 and this meant that if the conservatives were elected he would become the Prime Minister.  At the age of 43, after the General Election in 2010 became Prime Minister, the youngest PM for almost two centuries.  His first aim was to cut the British debt which was very high. David Cameron married his wife Samantha in 1996 and they have 3 children.