David Cameron news, page 2


Leader: Batting for Britain, but what is the next step?

Today David Cameron showed he has some backbone. Caught between a rock and a hard place, he did what British voters and British MPs expect him to do – which is bat for Britain.


Shropshire Tory MPs back David Cameron on eurozone treaty vote

Shrewsbury MP Daniel Kawczynski today backed David Cameron’s decision to use the British veto to block eurozone treaty change.


Leader: David Cameron, remember you are British

The next 48 hours could be the defining period of David Cameron’s premiership.


Shropshire’s Tories step up referendum plea

The spectre of Conservative Party infighting over Europe returned today as David Cameron made final preparations for a crucial summit in Brussels aimed at sorting out the mounting debt crisis.


Shropshire MPs pile the pressure on David Cameron at PMQs

Shropshire MPs this afternoon piled the pressure on David Cameron as the Prime Minister came under renewed pressure on the eve of a crunch EU summit meeting.


Leader: EU Referendum never more essential

A central plank of the big European dream – a common currency for supposedly merged economies – has turned out to be a misconceived disaster which now lies in tatters.


Leader: Soft justice has become national joke

Want a joke? Try British justice. And while you may not find anything funny, violent criminals are laughing.


Anger grows over Fifa poppy ban

David Cameron has condemned the ban on England’s footballers wearing poppies on their kit as ‘outrageous’.


Leader: Things set to get worse for Britain

The saving grace of the whole Eurozone disaster has been that Britain is not in the Euro and has not been directly embroiled in the chaotic mess.


Leader: ‘Happiness survey’ an expensive waste of our money

As an exercise in the banal, futile, and pointless, the new “happiness survey” being championed by David Cameron will take some beating.


Letter: Charity begins at home, Mr Cameron

Letter: Having listened to David Cameron and his aid minister on Newsnight yesterday night, I feel compelled to give my view of this episode of financial ineptitude.


More misery for Clegg as Alternative Vote bid lost

Britain has rejected adopting a new electoral system after the No To AV campaign won a crushing victory in the referendum, including in Shropshire.


PM: Tory share of vote held up

David Cameron praises Conservative councils over election results.


David Cameron praises Shropshire-based Royal Irish Regiment welcome

David Cameron has praised Market Drayton for its “very successful” homecoming parade for Shropshire-based soldiers, who are recently back from a seven-month tour of Afghanistan.


Cameron accused of sexism

Labour has accused David Cameron of sexism after he told Angela Eagle to “calm down, dear”.


Blog: Should David Cameron have gone on The One Show?

Blog: David Cameron rated his own life just “six out of ten” when he appeared on BBC’s magazine programme The One Show last night.


Ryanair fly in to help Shropshire MP

Owen Paterson was thankful to be able to spend two nights in the same bed this week when last night’s vote on increasing university tuition fees kept him in London for the second night running, writes Westminster blogger John Hipwood.


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Blog: Measuring our happiness

So, the Government wants to measure our happiness, writes Jon Simcock.


David Cameron: ‘We’ll compete on the industries of the future’

Prime Minister David Cameron talks to the Shropshire Star about the impact of the Government’s spending cuts


Cameron congratulates Kate and Wills

Prime Minister David Cameron wishes Prince William and Kate Middleton all the best following the announcement of their engagement.


Letter: Do Cameron and Clegg really listen to this music?

Letter: Recently in the media there was a good deal of self-righteous indignation about Nick Clegg choosing as his luxury on Desert Island Discs “a stash of cigarettes”.


Prime Minister starts China trade mission

David Cameron has arrived in China at the start of a three day trip that aims to boost trade with the world’s second largest economy.


David Cameron takes a Churchillian stance

The headquarters of the Ministry of Defence in London is colloquially known as The Kremlin. For decades the West had little idea of what was going on in the Moscow version. Now we’re wondering what’s happening in the MoD Main Building opposite Downing Street and just off Whitehall. Defence Secretary Liam Fox appears to be [...]


Highlights of David Cameron’s speech to conference

Highlights of David Cameron’s first speech to a Conservative conference as prime minister.


Cameron family friend on Ian Cameron’s death

Giles Andreae says David Cameron will devastated at the death of his father Ian.


Westminster Blog: A Prime Minster who kept a promise

It looks as though Nick Clegg is going to have a few more days minding the shop at 10 Downing Street following the birth three weeks early this week of Florence Rose Endellion Cameron, writes London Editor John Hipwood.


David Cameron on holiday amid rift rumours

David Cameron takes a holiday in Cornwall as rumours of rifts in the coalition Government persist.


Shropshire war hero reflects on honour

A Shropshire war veteran was reflecting today after receiving France’s highest military honour for his bravery in World War Two.


David Cameron sends England team message

The Prime Minister has sent a good luck message to the England team ahead of their World Cup opener against the United States.

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