Rishi ‘rolls the dice’ with ex-PM’s return to Cabinet

PRIOR to the landmark 2014 Scottish referendum, then-prime minister David Cameron famously quipped: “If you don’t like me, I won’t be here forever. If you don’t like this government, it won’t last forever.”

Almost a decade later, with the Conservatives still in power, Cameron was asked on Monday (Nov 13) by his successor-but-four in 10 Downing Street, Rishi Sunak, to return to office as foreign secretary.

Cameron’s appointment, extraordinary in many respects, highlights why a general election is now so badly needed so that the country can decide its future course some four years after the last pre-pandemic ballot in 2019.