Anthony seldon david cameron biography

Anthony Seldon may be a "peerless biographer", but his latest work, Cameron at 10, is not the "definitive" account of his first term, says Clare Foges in The Times history "cannot be fully written while the drama is still being played out".

History has "delivered a contrary verdict on many political decisions that seemed good or bad at the time", from the 1990 decision to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism (disastrous) to devolution, laughably heralded at the time as a way of killing off Scottish nationalism.

When it comes to David Cameron's big decisions the pace of deficit reduction, welfare reform, action in Libya and Syria, the EU referendum it is "far too early to judge".

So what does Seldon's biography tell us? It explores the tensions between Cameron and senior colleagues, including Boris Johnson, once the favourite to succeed him but now lagging in fifth place, with George Osborne comfortably in the lead, according to this week's poll by Conservative Home.

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