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David Cameron: A lord unto himself

The former British prime minister, now a life peer, has made an unexpected return to 10 Downing Street after the sacking of Suella Braverman, but he totes a fair bit of baggage

David Cameron was elevated to the House of Lords to allow him to be welcomed back to government following the sacking of British home secretary Suella Braverman.

The sight of David Cameron entering the door of 10 Downing Street seven years after resigning as British prime minister certainly delivered the bombshell his successor Rishi Sunak intended.

Coinciding with the sacking of Suella Braverman, Cameron’s elevation to the House of Lords as a life peer (the mechanism to allow him to return to government) was aimed at creating sufficient distraction from her unpleasantness.

But many people have said the multimillionaire drug-taking, alleged pig-fucking, ...