The Chief of the General Staff of the British Armed Forces, General Nick Carter, warns: Moscow is preparing “hostile actions” against the United Kingdom. The general called on London to increase defense spending to catch up with Russia. The British military department notes that Moscow is a serious rival, possessing the latest weapons and the principles of conducting hybrid and hacker wars. However, experts believe that the talk of British senior officials about the “Russian threat” is just a way to justify increasing their own defense budget. RT figured out how much it might cost to revive the former military power of Foggy Albion.
Every year on the first Friday of October, World Smile Day is celebrated. We owe the appearance of this date in the holiday calendar to the American artist Harvey Bell, who in 1963 created a logo for an insurance company - a smiling face, or simply a smiley face. The Americans liked this symbol so much that it quickly spread first across the United States and then throughout the world. World Smile Day was first celebrated in 1999 on the initiative of Bell himself. Today RT recalls the brightest smiles of famous politicians.
Theresa May is in the Swiss Alps, Angela Merkel is on a walk in Tyrol, Justin Trudeau is on a kayak in Canada, Vladimir Putin is with a fishing rod on the shore of a lake in Tuva, and Donald Trump is on a golf course - this is how world leaders like to spend their holidays . On International Tourism Day, RT compiled a photo gallery of famous politicians on vacation.
The world unipolar order that emerged after the collapse of the USSR is ending its existence: whole line states declare their ambitions. The UK, which has decided to leave the EU, is seeking greater political independence. London intends to increase its influence in the world, restructuring relations not only with Brussels, but, in part, with Washington. RT was looking into whether the United Kingdom could regain its once lost greatness.
The International Football Federation (FIFA) published a report by Michael Garcia on the illegal activities of the bid committees that competed for the right to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. It contains facts about how England tried to win over members of the FIFA executive committee to win victory. Prince William and former Prime Minister David Cameron were involved in a corruption scandal.
Former US President Bill Clinton will write a thriller book, “The President Is Missing,” co-authored with American writer James Patterson. David Cameron, who left Downing Street, purchased a special van for writing his memoirs, and the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, immediately after leaving the White House, went on a surfing vacation and admitted that he was “addicted to selfies.” What else do former and current top officials of states do “in retirement” - in the RT material.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she will seek a second independence referendum in 2020. The first took place in 2014 and ended in the defeat of supporters of separation from Great Britain. Now the situation has changed: according to surveys public opinion, the majority of Scots support independence. Experts believe that holding a new referendum depends on the British authorities and their ability to solve the Brexit problem, as well as on the readiness of the European Union to accept Scotland into its membership.
The “madmen” of the New IRA are now using the theme of violence to derail Brexit, said Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Gregory Campbell. This is how he commented on the recent death of American journalist Lyra McKee during a shootout in Ulster. The reporter was fatally wounded during a clash between Irish radicals and the police. According to experts, the local population does not support forceful methods“New IRA”, but Brexit has raised the issue of a new division of the Irish, which provokes radicals to respond.
Prime Minister of Great Britain since May 2010. Leader of the UK Conservative Party since 2005, member of the House of Commons since 2001. From 1994 to 2001, he was director of corporate communications for television broadcaster Carlton Communications. From 1992 to 1994 he worked as a special adviser to the UK Treasury and Home Office.
David William Donald Cameron was born on October 9, 1966 in London into a rich and noble family. His father, Ian Donald Cameron, was a stockbroker and a direct descendant of King William IV of Great Britain (1765-1837). David's mother, Mary Fleur Mount, was the daughter of a baronet, and several of her grandfathers and great-grandfathers were Tory parliamentarians.
David Cameron attended the prestigious Hatherdown preparatory boarding school in Winkfield in Berkshire, where Queen Elizabeth II's sons Prince Andrew and Prince Edward studied, as well as the children of British billionaires. In 1979, David, according to family tradition, entered the elite Eton College. In May 1983, shortly before taking his first final exams, he was caught smoking marijuana, but since he admitted to his crime and did not distribute the drug among other students, he was not expelled, and for some time he was deprived of the right to leave the college walls. Despite this episode, David did well in his exams at Eton at the end of 1984 and entered Brazenose College at Oxford University. Before starting his studies at Oxford, Cameron was an assistant to a member of the British Parliament from the Conservative Party, Tim Rathbone, and worked in Hong Kong for about three months at the Jardine Matheson corporation. David returned to Europe from Hong Kong railway, having visited Moscow and Yalta, where, in his own words, they wanted to recruit him as an agent of the KGB of the USSR. At Brazenose, Cameron studied for a Bachelor of Arts in an interdisciplinary course in politics, philosophy and economics.
Cameron began his political career on September 26, 1988, taking a job in the UK Conservative Party's research department, developing party strategy and creating briefings for parliamentary debates. In 1991, Cameron headed the policy division of the research department.
After the Conservatives won the 1992 election, Cameron was transferred to work for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was then Norman Lamont. In June 1993, he was appointed as a special adviser to the UK Home Office, where he was responsible for briefing Minister Michael Howard, the future leader of the Conservative Party. In July 1994, Cameron resigned as special adviser to become director of corporate affairs for Carlton Communications. Cameron managed to secure digital satellite broadcasting rights for Carlton Communicatons. In February 2001, Cameron left the firm to contest the parliamentary elections.
After three unsuccessful attempts to be elected to the House of Commons (in 1994, 1997 and 2000), Cameron won a by-election in the 2001 constituency of Witney in Oxfordshire. Following his election to the House of Commons, Cameron chaired the Select Committee on internal affairs- a prominent position, especially for a young parliamentarian. Cameron actively participated in debates and became known as a good speaker. In July 2003, Cameron became a member of the “shadow cabinet”, taking over the post of shadow leader of the House of Commons, Eric Forth. In November 2003, following Smith's resignation as party chairman, Cameron became vice-chairman of the party under the new Conservative leader, Michael Howard. In May 2005, Cameron became shadow education secretary.
Following Labour's victory in the general election, Conservative Party leader Michael Howard announced his resignation. On September 29, 2005, Cameron officially announced that he would run for this post, went through qualifying rounds with voting among members of parliament, and on December 6 defeated David Davis in the all-party election, gaining 66 percent of the votes of fellow party members.
At the next election, in May 2010, the Conservatives won, after which Cameron headed the UK government, which was created jointly by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
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He worked as an assistant to British MP Tim Radbone. Attended debates in the House of Commons. Worked for about three months at Jardine Matterson Corporation in Hong Kong.
Cameron formed a government in coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party.
Prime Minister David Cameron announced in his keynote speech that Britain could hold a referendum on leaving the European Union at the end of this decade if his Conservative Party wins the 2015 elections.
As a result of the general elections held on May 7, 2015, the Conservatives won about 37% of the vote and secured an absolute majority in the House of Commons (lower house of parliament). Conservative Party of Great Britain David Cameron is the Prime Minister of the country.
A referendum on the country's exit from the EU, initiated by David Cameron, took place in the UK. About 52% of Britons voted for leaving the EU, 48% voted against.
British Prime Minister David Cameron announced his resignation following the results of the referendum on the country's membership in the European Union. Cameron, who opposed Brexit, was going to retain his post regardless of the outcome of the vote, but changed his mind.
Cameron intends to resign in October at the Conservative party conference, at which time the party will have to identify a new candidate for the post of prime minister.
David Cameron is married to Samantha Sheffield. The couple has three children - two daughters and a son. The Prime Minister's first child, Ivan, who suffered from epilepsy and cerebral palsy, died in 2009 at the age of 6.
The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources
Prime Minister of Great Britain since May 2010. Leader of the UK Conservative Party since 2005, member of the House of Commons since 2001. From 1994 to 2001, he was director of corporate communications for television broadcaster Carlton Communications. From 1992 to 1994 he worked as a special adviser to the UK Treasury and Home Office.
David William Donald Cameron was born on October 9, 1966 in London into a rich and noble family. His father, Ian Donald Cameron, was a stockbroker and a direct descendant of King William IV of Great Britain (1765-1837). David's mother, Mary Fleur Mount, was the daughter of a baronet, and several of her grandfathers and great-grandfathers were Tory parliamentarians.
David Cameron attended the prestigious Hatherdown preparatory boarding school in Winkfield in Berkshire, where Queen Elizabeth II's sons Prince Andrew and Prince Edward studied, as well as the children of British billionaires. In 1979, David, according to family tradition, entered the elite Eton College. In May 1983, shortly before taking his first final exams, he was caught smoking marijuana, but since he admitted to his crime and did not distribute the drug among other students, he was not expelled, and for some time he was deprived of the right to leave the college walls. Despite this episode, David did well in his exams at Eton at the end of 1984 and entered Brazenose College at Oxford University. Before starting his studies at Oxford, Cameron was an assistant to a member of the British Parliament from the Conservative Party, Tim Rathbone, and worked for about three months in Hong Kong at the Jardine Matheson corporation. David returned to Europe from Hong Kong by rail, visiting Moscow and Yalta, where, in his own words, they wanted to recruit him as an agent of the USSR KGB. At Brazenose, Cameron studied for a Bachelor of Arts in an interdisciplinary course in politics, philosophy and economics.
Cameron began his political career on September 26, 1988, taking a job in the UK Conservative Party's research department, developing party strategy and creating briefings for parliamentary debates. In 1991, Cameron headed the policy division of the research department.
After the Conservatives won the 1992 election, Cameron was transferred to work for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was then Norman Lamont. In June 1993, he was appointed as a special adviser to the UK Home Office, where he was responsible for briefing Minister Michael Howard, the future leader of the Conservative Party. In July 1994, Cameron resigned as special adviser to become director of corporate affairs for Carlton Communications. Cameron managed to secure digital satellite broadcasting rights for Carlton Communicatons. In February 2001, Cameron left the firm to contest the parliamentary elections.
After three unsuccessful attempts to be elected to the House of Commons (in 1994, 1997 and 2000), Cameron won a by-election in the 2001 constituency of Witney in Oxfordshire. Following his election to the House of Commons, Cameron chaired the Home Affairs Select Committee, a prominent post, especially for a young parliamentarian. Cameron actively participated in debates and became known as a good speaker. In July 2003, Cameron became a member of the “shadow cabinet”, taking over the post of shadow leader of the House of Commons, Eric Forth. In November 2003, following Smith's resignation as party chairman, Cameron became vice-chairman of the party under the new Conservative leader, Michael Howard. In May 2005, Cameron became shadow education secretary.
Following Labour's victory in the general election, Conservative Party leader Michael Howard announced his resignation. On September 29, 2005, Cameron officially announced that he would run for this post, went through qualifying rounds with voting among members of parliament, and on December 6 defeated David Davis in the all-party election, gaining 66 percent of the votes of fellow party members.
At the next election, in May 2010, the Conservatives won, after which Cameron headed the UK government, which was created jointly by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
Cameron was called a young, ambitious leader who wants to modernize British politics. Cameron was considered a good speaker and one of the likely contenders for the post of British Prime Minister after the parliamentary elections to be held in June 2009. However, the press has often criticized Cameron for the fact that his policies are based on the country's elite, graduates of Eton and Oxford, and he is poorly aware of the needs of ordinary people in the United Kingdom.
Cameron is married. He has two children. David loves to cook, enjoys tennis, horse riding, hunting and football.
David Cameron David Cameron since May 11, 2010
Leader of the UK Conservative Party since 2005
Member of Parliament for Witney since 7 June 2001
Religion: Church of England
Birth: October 9, 1966
London, Great Britain
Spouse: Samantha Sheffield
Children: Ivan Reginald Ian†, Nancy Gwen, Arthur Ilvan, Florence Rose Endellion
Party: Conservative
Education: Oxford University
David William Donald Cameron(Cameron) (English: David William Donald Cameron; born October 9, 1966, London) - British politician, leader of the Conservative Party, current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
David Cameron's childhood and education. The beginning of David Cameron's political career
Cameron born into the family of a broker of aristocratic origin, Ian Donald Cameron and his wife Mary Fleur (nee Mon), in London. His parents married on October 20, 1962. David Cameron has a brother, Alan Alexander, and two sisters, Tanya-Rachel (born 1965) and Claire-Louise (born 1971).
Ian Donald Cameron, born at Blairmore House, near Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Blairmore House was built by D. Cameron's great-great-grandfather, Alexander Geddes, who was engaged in business in America and returned to Scotland in the 1880s.
Great-great-grandfather Emil Levita (b. 1829, Morgenier) was a German-Jewish immigrant who came to Manchester in the 1850s and became a British citizen in 1871. He worked as a director of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. Among D. Cameron's relatives is also Sir Cecil Bingham Levit, chairman of the London District Council (1928).
Mary Flare is the daughter of William Mona. Cameron's ancestors trace their origins back to King William IV of England and his mistress Dorothy Jordan, and also have English, Scottish, German and Jewish roots.
From the age of seven, Cameron attended private school in Winkfield, Berkshire. Since childhood he was interested in art.
He graduated from Eton College and Oxford University (cum laude), where he studied politics, philosophy and economics. At Oxford, Cameron met Boris Johnson (currently Mayor of London), George Osborne (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Nat Rothschild and others.
After graduating from university, he began working in the research department of the Conservative Party, also preparing John Major's speeches and economic issues. He was an adviser to the British Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1993, Cameron began working at the UK Home Office. In the 1997 elections he was elected from the Stafford constituency, but was defeated. He served on the board of directors of one of the UK's largest media companies for seven years.
In the 2001 election he was elected Member of the House of Commons for Witney, Oxfordshire. In 2005, after the resignation of Michael Howard, under whose leadership the party lost the parliamentary elections, he was elected party leader in the third round. During his leadership of the party, there was a significant increase in support for the party among voters - against the backdrop of falling Labor ratings.
In the first round of election debates in the spring of 2010, according to polls, he lost to Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, but won the last.
In the House of Commons, Cameron voted for the start of the war in Iraq, for an investigation into the circumstances of the start of the war in Iraq (in 2006), strongly against the ban on hunting, for granting equal rights to representatives of sexual minorities, against the anti-terrorism laws proposed by Labour, against the exclusion of hereditary peers from the House Lords, for a fully elected House of Lords, against the smoking ban, against expanding integration into the European Union. Despite Cameron's criticism economic policy Labour, in 2008 he supported the Gordon Brown government's plan to combat the global economic crisis.
During the war in Georgia in 2008, he called for visa sanctions against Russia and the suspension of its membership in the G8.
Led by David Cameron's government
On the evening of 11 May 2010, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced his resignation as head of government and leader of the Labor Party and submitted his resignation as Prime Minister to the Queen. That same evening, the Queen's proposal to form a government was received by David Cameron, whose party won the largest number of seats in the general elections on May 6, 2010 (but did not receive an absolute majority in parliament); Cameron announced his intention to form a governing coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
On 12 May 2010, for the first time in Britain's post-war history, a coalition government was formed; Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg took over as deputy prime minister. Cameron, 43, became Britain's youngest prime minister since 1812, when the government was headed by the 42-year-old Earl of Liverpool.
October 5, 2010 Cameron apologized to his voters for failing to fully deliver on his campaign promise to provide child care benefits - which would cut benefits to around 1.2 million high-income people.
David Cameron family
Since 1996, Cameron has been married to a representative of the aristocratic family, Samantha Gwendolyn Sheffield (born April 18, 1971, London), daughter of Baronet Sir Reginald Adrian Barkeley of Sheffield and Annabelle Lucy Veronica Jones, actress. Samantha is a descendant of Charles II and his famous mistress Nell Gwyn. They married on 1 June 1996 at St Augustine's Church in Canterbury Oxfordshire. The couple has four children; their first child, Aven Reginald, born April 8, 2002, suffered from epilepsy and died at the age of seven in 2009. Cameron has two daughters, Nancy Gwen (born 2004) and Florence Rose Endellion (born August 24, 2010), and a son, Arthur Elven (born 2006). His second daughter's name includes the name of a village in the southern part of Britain where Cameron's family likes to holiday.
David Cameron's hobbies
David loves to cook, enjoys tennis, horse riding, hunting and football. He is a fan of Aston Villa football club. Before his premiership, he usually traveled to his place of work by bicycle; However, in 2006, he was caught having his belongings carried by a driver who was following Cameron's bicycle in a car.
In September 2012, according to the Prime Minister’s website, the head of the rodent security service, Larry the cat, was demoted for improper performance of his duties. During his six months in office, he caught only one mouse. Larry was transferred to a lower position, and his place was taken by the cat Freya, who previously served in a similar position for Chancellor George Osborne.
That same month, he was unable to answer basic questions from American host David Letterman about British history. Cameron, educated at Eton and Oxford, did not know who wrote the patriotic song "Rule, Britannia, the Seas!", or how "magna carta" is translated into English.
