News about David Cameron

Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the latest proposal for a truce 'extraordinarily generous,' and urged Hamas to act on it 'quickly.' He is in Saudi Arabia for meetings Monday.

David Cameron has been accused of 'swanning around like a Kardashian sister' at taxpayers' expense after hiring a £42million private jet for his latest trip. The Foreign Secretary undertook a five-day tour of central Asia last week as he visited Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. But Labour have blasted the former PM for 'unacceptable extravagance' over his choice of taxpayer-funded transport. It has emerged how Lord Cameron chartered an Embraer Lineage 1000 for his trip, which has been described as 'one of the best luxury private jets money can buy'. The luxurious aircreft is estimated to cost $52.5million (£41.8million) if bought new, or $14,850 per hour (£11,850) to hire. Last year, James Cleverly - Lord Cameron's predecessor as Foreign Secretary - was revealed to have spent £422,747 on hiring the same type of plane for a week-long tour of the Caribbean and Latin America.

It's one of those great British unifiers: that sinking feeling at the supermarket checkout when you realise you've forgotten your reusable shopping bag. Short of making a quick dash home - rarely a realistic option - there's nothing for it but to fork out for yet another 'bag for life'. The trade in these bags, which range in price from 30p for a reusable plastic number to £25 for a designer tote, is now big business for Britain's grocery giants. And - as the Mail can reveal today - behind the boom is an unseemly tale of corporate greed and profiteering, disingenuously presented as a campaign to help save the planet.

Bennett has kept birds at the bottom of his garden for 25 years where they have been providing the H/Advisors Maitland co-chief executive with eggs. But to his horror, Bennett has to register them or face a £5,000 fine for each one he fails to declare. It is the latest decree from the Department for Food and Rural Affairs and as he points out yet another example of Bureaucracy Britain gone mad.

The London Clinic has been the go-to for the royal family over many decades - and also counts Liz Taylor and John F Kennedy among its former patients. In January the King, 75, was admitted to the private clinic in Marylebone to undergo 'routine treatment' for an enlarged prostate. Doctors here, however, discovered an unspecified form of cancer after tests in February. Buckingham Palace confirmed it was not prostate cancer. But the royal is no stranger to the hospital. As the then-Prince of Wales, he opened the London Clinic's physiotherapy department in 1989.

Old habits die hard. When things go wrong in this country (as they do with monotonous regularity these days), it is still the default position of diehard Remainers - eight years on from the referendum they lost - to blame Brexit for all our ills. It's an addiction they can't seem to shake even as time makes so many of the arguments for and against Brexit increasingly irrelevant. So, when confronted yesterday with Britain's inability to stop tens of thousands of migrants landing on our shores in small boats via the English Channel, not only did Foreign Secretary David Cameron appear less than enthusiastic about his own government's Rwanda policy - of which he is clearly a sceptic - he also seemed to blame Brexit for the flood of illegal migrants.

Britain is on track for another referendum on whether to be in the EU, according to a polling guru. Professor Sir John Curtice pointed to the overwhelmingly anti-Brexit views of Labour voters and younger generations as he argued the issue has not been settled. At a think-tank event, Sir John said he 'would not be surprised' if there was a re-run of the ballot by 2040.

Downing Street today insisted a migrant returns deal with France was 'not possible' because Britain would have to accept a quota of refugees from the EU in exchange. Any such agreement is 'not on the table' because the Government 'would not agree to any kind of deal that would require quotas in return', a No10 spokeswoman said. It came after Foreign Secretary David Cameron praised the pre-Brexit arrangements for sending Channel migrants back to France. 'I'd love that situation to be the case again, that's the most sensible thing,' the former PM said, as he stressed it was 'not available at the moment'. Rishi Sunak this week saw his Rwanda Bill finally approved by Parliament as he pushes ahead with plans to deport Channel migrants to the east African country. Just hours after the PM had his new laws approved by both the Commons and Lords, 402 migrants arrived in Britain after crossing the Channel in seven boats on Tuesday. Five people, including a child, died while trying to make the perilous journey to Britain the same day.

David Cameron has - playfully - taken aim at his former chancellor George Osborne over the latter's praise for Labour finance chief Rachel Reeves. Last month Mr Osborne, who is now a businessman and postcaster, praised her fiscal conservatism and suggested she was the 'heir to Cameron/Osborne'. This caused a bit of a stir, as Lord Cameron is the Foreign Secretary in a Conservative Government trailing Labour badly in the polls. And it has earned Mr Osborne a gentle rebuke from his friend and former boss. Speaking to ITV on a tour of Asian states Lord Cameron was asked about the analogy.

QUENTIN LETTS: Should politicians be allowed to campaign on NHS premises? Lee Anderson (Reform, Ashfield) caused a kerfuffle in the Commons by complaining about a recent election event at his constituency's hospital. It featured Sir Keir Starmer and Labour's health spokesman Wes Streeting, plus a Labour mayoral candidate. Mr Anderson said the event amounted to 'gutter politics' and that the Labour mayoral hopeful, who happens to chair that hospital trust, was using the place as 'a campaign prop'.

David Cameron has admitted Russia is using central Asia to dodge Western sanctions following Vladimir Putin 's invasion of Ukraine. The Foreign Secretary used a visit to countries in the region, known as 'The Stans', to urge them to work with Britain to halt Russia's ability to 'feed its war machine'. Lord Cameron's trip will see him become the first British Foreign Secretary to visit Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan and the first to visit Uzbekistan since 1997. His will also be the first visit to Mongolia by such a senior UK minister in over a decade. The Foreign Secretary's tour comes amid concerns about a recent spike in sales of drone equipment and heavy machinery from Britain to countries such as Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. British exports to Kyrgyzstan, the small former Soviet satellite state, were found to have risen by more than 1,100 per cent.

The Mail on Sunday has learned that former minister Ed Vaizey's names appear on the official document recording the birth of Saudi Arabian political analyst Najah Al-Otaibi's daughter. In a move guaranteed to set Westminster tongues wagging, Najah, 41, who split from newsreader Tim Willcox after two years of marriage, named her Victoria Vaizey Edward Al-Otaibi - containing a reversed version of Edward Vaizey. It should be noted that the former MP for Wantage, Oxfordshire, is not specifically named as the father. Adding to the mystery, that box was left blank by Najah, who often appears on BBC news programmes.

Seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) were killed by Israeli forces while their convoy was moving to deliver aid in what the UN chief labelled an 'unconscionable' attack. The Polish aid worker, Damian Sobol, from south-eastern Poland, took part in delivering aid to Ukrainian refugees following the Russia-Ukraine war and also helped during Turkiye's massive earthquake. Today, over two weeks since his killing, a memorial event honouring his life began at the Przemysl train station, where in 2022 he started his aid career after thousands of Ukrainians arrived. The procession then ended with a funeral ceremony at the cemetery in his home town of Przemysl.

Israel listened to its allies. Yesterday's retaliation for Iran's mass missile and drone attack last weekend was limited and ­carefully calibrated, just as its friends had urged. Even Iran doesn't regard it as a cause for further escalation. This is all to the good but, it is far from the end of the ­matter, for Israel and its allies have much work to do if they are to build a united front which can thwart Iran's determination to dominate the Middle East and bring about the speedy demise of the medieval mullahs who rule from Tehran and spread such misery and bloodshed.

On the 48,000-acre estate Mr Moran acquired, almost 60 turbines form the Dorenell wind farm whose operators pay rent estimated at more than £1million a year to the landowner.

Lord Cameron, Foreign Secretary, was in Italy for a G7 foreign ministers' meeting. These meetings have to be held in sun-kissed resorts. It's a security requirement. Back in the House of Commons, MPs were complaining that the government had dead-batted a suggestion from the procedure committee. Its not entirely cerebral supremo Dame Karen Bradley had proposed that parliamentary convention be bent to allow his lordship to be quizzed at the bar of the Commons. The Government's response, not quite in full: 'You must be joking. Get stuffed.'

Today at her neat bungalow in genteel Lytham St Annes, the lifelong Tory activist said she did not want to talk about the incident, which she is understood to have found 'deeply distressing'. But constituency sources told Mail Online that as 'a devout Christian and a very devout Conservative', Ms Fieldhouse was 'very sad' that the MP for the seaside resort had allegedly put himself in that position. She told one: 'I'm a Christian woman with morals and principles and I think that says everything.' Ms Fieldhouse was awoken last December by an 'angry' Mr Menzies demanding thousands of pounds from local campaign funds in order for the 'bad people' holding him hostage to release him, saying it was 'a matter of life and death'.

With its L-shaped lawn and rose beds commissioned by Margaret Thatcher (inset), the garden at Number 10 Downing Street has played host to some historic moments. In recent years, they have ranged from David Cameron's love-in with Nick Clegg in 2010 (top right) to Dominic Cummings' defiance (bottom right) after his lockdown drive to Durham. Now, ordinary Britons have the chance to tour the historic garden, which dates in its current form back to 1736.The tour is being run as part of the London Open Gardens weekend, during which more than 100 normally private gardens will open their doors. During the Second World War, prime minister Winston Churchill (left) had brief moments of respite in the garden as Britain fought against Nazi Germany.

The Foreign Secretary is set to visit Israel today just hours after Rishi Sunak warned the country's Prime Minister that 'calm heads must prevail' in the wake of Iran's unprecedented missile and drone barrage over the weekend. Lord Cameron is expected to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu and foreign minister Israel Katz, the Times of Israel reports, as well as war cabinet minister Benny Gantz, though this is said to have not yet been finalised. He has previously urged Tel Aviv to be 'smart as well as tough' by not escalating the conflict with Iran, while Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday pledged his support for Israel, but said that an escalation in the Middle East was in nobody's interest. As well as meetings with Israeli officials on Wednesday, Lord Cameron is expected to visit senior Palestinian Authority officials in the West Bank city of Ramallah, it has been reported.

The budget airline said it would not reopen routes to Tel Aviv until October 27 - with any customers who already have tickets offered the choice of a refund. A spokesperson for the airline said: 'As a result of the continued evolving situation in Israel, easyJet has now taken the decision to suspend its flights to Tel Aviv for the remainder of the summer season. Customers booked to fly on this route up to this date are being offered options, including a full refund.'

BBC presenter Nick Robinson today admitted he 'should have been clearer' after sparking a 'bias' row by saying Israel 'murders' Palestinians. The Radio 4 Today programme host issued a statement to clarify he was 'not expressing my own view, let alone that of the BBC when I used the words 'murders''. It followed Tory outrage at Robinson's remarks, which he made during an interview with Foreign Secretary David Cameron this morning. Downing Street stressed that BBC impartiality was 'absolutely paramount' and said PM Rishi Sunak would not use the term 'murder' to describe Israel's actions in Gaza . No10 also issued a plea for all Britons to 'be careful with our words at this time'.

The seven-day search for gunman Raoul Moat (left, middle and left inset) in July 2010 was the biggest manhunt in modern British history and made headlines around the world. After killing one person and wounding two others in a two-day shooting spree, Moat managed to evade the police for days by camping out in the Northumbrian countryside. The pursuit was turned into a controversial new ITV drama series The Hunt For Raoul Moat last year. Here is how the drama that gripped the nation unfolded.

Britons flying abroad on long-distance routes were today warned of disruption as airlines rerouted or cancelled services after Iran 's unprecedented attack on Israel. Iran's missile and drone assault on Israel has caused 'chaos' in the aviation industry after further narrowing options for planes navigating between Europe and Asia. More than ten airlines have had to cancel or reroute flights over the last two days, including easyJet, Qantas , KLM, Lufthansa, WizzAir, United Airlines and Air India . Experts claimed this made it the biggest single disruption to air travel since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11, 2001. German airline Lufthansa has suspended its flights to and from Iran, while others including Australia's Qantas and Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) have rerouted planes to avoid Iran's airspace. EasyJet and WizzAir have also cancelled flights to Tel Aviv .

Veteran MP Tim Loughton (left) has become the latest to join the Tory exodus from Parliament after he today announced (his letter to his local party right) he will will stand down at the next general election. The long-serving backbencher, who has represented East Worthing & Shoreham since 1997, said it was 'wiser to leave five minutes too soon than to continue for five years too long'. The former children's minister, who served in Lord David Cameron's government, joins a growing number of Conservative MPs planning to quit Parliament - including ex-PM Theresa May who announced in March she would not stand again.