The first rule of political office is that you should leave your party and country in better condition than you found them. That’s why there’s no question that David Cameron, prime minister of the United Kingdom between 2010 and 2016, was a failure. And that’s why it’s almost incomprehensible that, for all the trouble he’s caused, he’s been plucked from his lucrative post-political career by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, plopped into the House of Lords, and bestowed with the esteemed high office of foreign secretary.
The appointment smacks of desperation. Reinstating Cameron to government is an attempt to lend Sunak some much-needed credibility. It is also an attempt to distract from the unpleasant business of Suella Braverman, Sunak’s former home secretary, whom he fired last week after she penned an unauthorized op-ed for the Times of London criticizing the British police for their “double standards” in being soft on anti-Israel thugs yet harsh on others.
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