LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Former British Prime Minister David Cameron was named the country’s new foreign minister on Monday, in an unexpected appointment made as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s team undergoes a shake-up.
David Cameron, 57, was British Prime Minister from 2010 to 2016, stepping down following the result of the Brexit referendum, when Britain voted to leave the European Union.
His unexpected return to the forefront of British politics comes after he spent the last seven years writing his memoirs and being involved in various businesses, including Greensill Capital, a financial company that later went bankrupt.
Greensill’s collapse sparked debate over the extent to which former political leaders can use their status to influence government policy, after Cameron repeatedly contacted senior ministers in 2020 to lobby for the company.
Sunak’s office said on Monday that King Charles had agreed to give Cameron a seat in Britain’s upper house, the House of Lords, allowing him to return to government as a minister despite no longer being an elected member of Parliament.
(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; writing by Kate Holton; editing in Spanish by Benjamín Mejías Valencia and Tomás Cobos)
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