Cameron is an occasional jogger and in 2009 raised funds for charities by taking part in the Oxford 5K and the Great Brook Run. [388]

Parker, George (6 March 2015). "The reinvention of George Osborne". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022 . Retrieved 28 March 2015. In January 2023, Cameron was assigned to teach politics in a three-week course at New York University Abu Dhabi. He was to lecture students on "practising politics and government in the age of disruption", which included topics like the Ukraine war and migration crisis. [353] Migrant crisis It was simultaneously announced that Cameron would receive a life peerage, making him a member of the House of Lords, and the first former prime minister to be created a peer since Margaret Thatcher. [356] On 17 November 2023, he was created Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, of Chipping Norton in the County of Oxfordshire. [357] [358] Lord Carrington, a hereditary peer, was the last peer to hold the office of Foreign Secretary, from 1979 until his resignation in 1982. [359] He was introduced to the House of Lords on 20 November, supported by Lord True and Baroness Williams of Trafford. [360] [361]On 19 June 2023, Cameron gave evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. [327] Cameron speaking at a World Travel and Tourism Council meeting in April 2017 Positions It’s very hard to answer why that’s the case. And I’m sure this public inquiry is going to spend a lot of time on that.” ‘Mistake was made not looking at range of pandemics’ Beale, Jonathan (16 January 2014). "David Cameron dismisses Robert Gates' defence cuts warning". BBC News. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014 . Retrieved 16 January 2014. While stating that he did not regret calling the 2016 referendum, he has told The Times it had left him ‘hugely depressed’ and understands that ‘some people will never forgive me’. Sherman, Jill (11 October 1996). "Clarke challenged to show gains of economic recovery". The Times (London).

In April 2009, The Independent reported that in 1989, while Nelson Mandela remained imprisoned under the apartheid regime, Cameron had accepted a trip to South Africa paid for by an anti-sanctions lobby firm. A spokesperson for Cameron responded by saying that the Conservative Party was at that time opposed to sanctions against South Africa and that his trip was a fact-finding mission. However, the newspaper reported that Cameron's then superior at Conservative Research Department called the trip "jolly", saying that "it was all terribly relaxed, just a little treat, a perk of the job. The Botha regime was attempting to make itself look less horrible, but I don't regard it as having been of the faintest political consequence." Cameron distanced himself from his party's history of opposing sanctions against the regime. He was criticised by Labour MP Peter Hain, himself an anti-apartheid campaigner. [127] Raising teaching standards Ehrenberg, Billy (5 January 2015). "Have the Conservatives really halved the deficit". City AM. London. Archived from the original on 19 October 2015 . Retrieved 12 October 2015. Cameron and Davis top Tory poll". BBC News. 20 October 2005. Archived from the original on 15 December 2006 . Retrieved 6 November 2006. a b Wheeler, Brian (6 December 2005). "The David Cameron Story". BBC News . Retrieved 27 March 2007. NUS comments on David Cameron's proposals to create 'Good University' shortlist" (Press release). National Union of Students. 19 January 2010 . Retrieved 6 June 2014. [ permanent dead link]Residents in Jaffna have hopes raised with Cameron's visit to the North". The Sunday Times. Colombo. Agence France-Presse. 16 November 2013. Archived from the original on 18 November 2013 . Retrieved 16 November 2013. Parliamentary candidacies Stafford, the constituency Cameron contested at the 1997 General Election In June 2003, Cameron was appointed a shadow minister in the Privy Council Office as a deputy to Eric Forth, then Shadow Leader of the House. He also became a vice- chairman of the Conservative Party when Michael Howard took over the leadership in November of that year. He was appointed Opposition frontbench local government spokesman in 2004, before being promoted to the Shadow Cabinet that June as head of policy co-ordination. Later, he became Shadow Education Secretary in the post-election reshuffle. [92] Swinford, Steven (23 July 2013). "David Cameron: 'Immigration is constant drain on public services' ". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022. Cameron Kasky (born 2000), Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor and gun control activist