What could Cameron learn from his little-known predecessor?
David Cameron’s story shares some odd similarities with a politician who was in power more than 100 years ago He’s the Conservative prime minister who resigned due to serious splits in his party, only to return as foreign secretary a few years later in the midst of a major European war. Yes, of course I’m talking about mustachioed Scotsman Arthur Balfour, who served as PM between 1902 and 1905, and who is regarded as one of the less impactful British leaders of the 20th century.
Balfour, meanwhile, lost his seat in the Tories’ calamitous defeat at the 1906 election a month after his own resignation – but was back in the Commons a month later thanks to a well-timed by-election. However, it’s worth taking a look at some similarities. Balfour’s moody face was back in the cabinet less than a decade after his humiliating downfall, when Herbert Asquith appointed him First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915 .
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