Following his recall to the government on Tuesday, David Cameron took the cabinet table seat again for the first time in almost seven years.
Following a significant change on Monday, which saw the former prime minister return to the forefront of politics, Rishi Sunak met with his new cabinet.
James Cleverly, who was promoted to home secretary to succeed Suella Braverman, is replaced by him.
After Mrs. Braverman criticized the Metropolitan Police, she was fired.
The prime minister greeted his newly appointed government by saying, “A warm welcome to those for whom it’s their first cabinet and also a welcome to those for whom it may not be their first time.”
With the release of new inflation data and the court’s expected ruling on the government’s Rwanda policy on Wednesday, he went on to say that the coming week would be “an important week”.
After resigning as prime minister in 2016, Lord Cameron, as he is now called after being appointed to the House of Lords on Monday, had not been in Parliament.
Even though the job offer was made just last week, Downing Street was able to stop any rumors about his unexpected comeback to politics from spreading.
With one swift move, No 10 announced that the former prime minister would be joining the House of Lords and assuming one of the highest positions in the government.
As Westminster was still processing the news, Lord Cameron was attending to official business, which included a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Both “reiterated the strength and depth of the relationship between the UK and the US” and discussed the situation in Ukraine, according to the Foreign Office.
“They discussed the Middle East conflict, Israel’s right to self-defense, and the need for humanitarian pauses to allow the safe passage of aid into Gaza,” the Foreign Office said in a statement.
Speaking on Monday night at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet in London, Mr. Sunak expressed his satisfaction at the appointment of a new foreign secretary and described the new government as “a united team.”
According to BBC Breakfast, Lord Cameron returned to the Conservative Party “out of a sense of duty” and would add expertise to the position, according to recently appointed Conservative Party head Richard Holden.
However, not everyone in the Conservative Party is happy with Lord Cameron’s comeback and the updated cabinet.
Dame Andrea Jenkyns, a backbencher, has already sent the prime minister a letter of no confidence, citing Mrs. Braverman’s dismissal. 53 would be required before his leadership is in jeopardy.
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Additionally, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, a former cabinet minister for the Conservative party, stated that the Tories were “in danger of losing votes to the Reform party”.
After seeing him earlier, Reform leader Richard Tice told BBC Newsnight he was “as happy as can be” and that “the champagne will be flowing in the Reform party headquarters tonight after what’s been done today.”
The question of whether Mr. Sunak is truly offering a fresh start by bringing back a prime minister who departed office seven years ago has been immediately raised by the opposition parties.
Voters, according to shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, will be “wondering how David Cameron coming back into government will help them pay for their weekly shop”.
The Conservatives, she continued, were “out of ideas” and unable to bring forth “the change our country is crying out for”.
Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, remarked that it “sounds like desperation”.
In addition, the Liberal Democrats want Lord Cameron’s peerage to be revoked due to his support of the bankrupt banking firm Greensill Capital.
Following his resignation as prime minister, Lord Cameron announced his resignation from a number of corporate and philanthropic positions, including president of Alzheimer’s Research UK.
“I have one job – to be foreign secretary and work with the prime minister for the UK to be as secure and prosperous as possible in a difficult and dangerous world,” he stated.
He asserted that the Greensill incident had been “dealt with” and was “in the past”.
Since Lord Cameron would be sitting as a lord rather than in the Commons, opposition parties and Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle have expressed concerns about how MPs will be able to hold him accountable.
The new foreign secretary, Andrew Mitchell, the minister of the foreign office and Lord Cameron’s Commons deputy, stated that he thought it was “essential” that the department’s work be adequately examined.
He further stated that Lord Cameron would frequently appear before pertinent committees and the House of Lords.
Following the cabinet reshuffle on Monday, Lord Cameron is not the only well-known figure returning to the administration.
Andrea Leadsom, the former business secretary, is now a junior official at the Department of Health and Social Care, while Damian Hinds, the former head of the Department for Education, is now a minister.
Esther McVey, a former secretary of work and pensions, rejoins the government as a minister in the Cabinet Office.