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Copyright © David Cameron 2019
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Source ISBN: 9780008239282
Ebook Edition: September 2019 ISBN: 9780008239305
Version: 2019-10-02
For Samantha
Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Dedication
5 Contents
6 List of Illustrations
7 Foreword
8 1 Five Days in May
9 2 A Berkshire Boy
10 3 Eton, Oxford … and the Soviet Union
11 4 Getting Started
12 5 Samantha
13 6 Into Parliament
14 7 Our Darling Ivan
15 8 Men or Mice?
16 9 Hoodies and Huskies
17 10 Cliff Edge, Collapse and Scandal
18 11 Going to the Polls
19 12 Cabinet Making
20 13 Special Relationships
21 14 Afghanistan and the Armed Forces
22 15 Budgets and Banks
23 16 Nos 10 and 11 – Neighbours, Friends and Families
24 17 Progressive Conservatism in Practice
25 18 Success and Failure
26 19 Party and Parliament
27 20 Leveson
28 21 Libya and the Arab Spring
29 22 Referendum and Riots
30 23 Better Together
31 24 Treaties and Treadmills
32 25 Omnishambles
33 26 Coalition and Other Blues
34 27 Wedding Rings, Olympic Rings
35 28 Resignations and Reshuffles
36 29 Bloomberg
37 30 The Gravest Threat
38 31 Sticking to ‘Plan A’
39 32 Love is Love
40 33 A Slow-Moving Tragedy
41 34 Leading for the Long Term
42 35 A Distinctive Foreign Policy
43 36 The Long Road to 2015
44 37 Junckernaut
45 38 A ‘Small Island’ in a Small World
46 39 Back to Iraq
47 40 Scotland Remains
48 41 The Sweetest Victory
49 42 A Conservative Future?
50 43 Rolling Back the Islamic State
51 44 Trouble Ahead
52 45 Renegotiation
53 46 Referendum
54 47 The End
55 Picture Section
56 Index
57 About the Author
58 About the Publisher
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