Cameron at 10
Page 62
5. Interview, Liz Sugg
6. Interview, Laurence Mann
7. Interview, Tom Fletcher
8. Interview, Laurence Mann
9. Interview, Tom Fletcher
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Interview, Patrick McLoughlin
14. Interview, Laurence Mann
15. Ibid.
16. Interview, Ed Llewellyn
Chapter 2
1. Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge, Brown at 10 (2010), p. 144
2. Ibid., p. 151
3. Francis Elliott and James Hanning, Cameron: Practically a Conservative (third edition, 2012), pp. 53–72, 109–30
4. Interview, George Osborne
5. Ibid.
6. Interview, Ed Llewellyn
7. Interview, Oliver Letwin
8. Peter Snowdon, Back from the Brink: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of the Conservative Party (2010), p. 314
9. Reconstruction: Plan for a Strong Economy, Conservative Party conference, 11 September 2008
10. Interview, Rupert Harrison
11. Guardian website, 9 October 2008
12. Seldon and Lodge, Brown at 10, pp. 282–3; The Times, 27 December 2014
13. Interview, Matthew Hancock
14. Interview, Oliver Letwin
15. Interview, George Osborne
16. Hansard, 22 April 2009, column 243
17. Seldon and Lodge, Brown at 10, p. 258
18. Ibid., pp. 258–9
19. Interview, Rupert Harrison
20. Interview, Matthew Hancock
21. George Osborne, ‘It’s ridiculous to pretend that there won’t be cuts’, The Times, 15 June 2009
22. George Osborne, Conservative Party conference speech, 2009; Snowdon, Back from the Brink, pp. 372–4
23. Snowdon, Back from the Brink, p. 372
24. Interview, George Osborne
25. Janan Ganesh, George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor (2012), p. 221
26. Martin Kettle, ‘George Osborne’s speech did the business’, Guardian website, 6 October 2009
27. Telegraph website, 6 October 2009
28. Guardian, 7 January 2010
29. Snowdon, Back from the Brink, p. 389
30. Ibid., p. 390
31. Ibid., p. 389
32. George Osborne, Mais Lecture, ‘A New Economic Model’, February 2010
33. Conservative election poster, ‘We can’t go on like this. I’ll cut the deficit, not the NHS’, January 2010
Chapter 3
1. Interview, David Cameron
2. Interview, Liz Sugg
3. Interview, Nick Clegg
4. Interview, Oliver Letwin
5. Ibid.
6. Interview, Kate Fall
7. See Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge, Brown at 10 (2010), pp. 454–68
8. Interview, Lord O’Donnell
9. See David Laws, 22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem–Conservative Coalition (2010); Rob Wilson, 5 Days to Power (2010); Andrew Adonis, 5 Days in May: The Coalition and Beyond (2013)
10. Interview, William Hague
11. Interview, David Laws
12. Interview, William Hague
13. Interview, Lord O’Donnell
14. Interview, Kenneth Clarke
15. Interview, Oliver Letwin
16. Interview, George Osborne
17. Ibid.
18. Interview, William Hague
19. Interview, Nick Clegg
20. Interview, Lord O’Donnell
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Interview, Graham Brady
24. Interview, Laurence Mann
25. Interview, Lena Pietsch
26. Interview, Jonny Oates
27. Interview, Laurence Mann
28. Interview, Andrew Cooper
29. Interview, Lord O’Donnell
30. Interview, Oliver Letwin
Chapter 4
1. Interview, Paul Kirby
2. Interview, David Laws
3. Ibid.
4. Interview, Steve Hilton
5. Reconstruction: Plan for a Strong Economy, Conservative Party conference, 11 September 2008
6. BBC News, 24 May 2010
7. David Laws, 22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem–Conservative Coalition (2010), p. 232
8. Observer, 30 May 2010
9. Interview, Paul Tucker
10. Interview, Danny Alexander
11. Matthew d’Ancona, In it Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 47
12. Guardian website, 22 June 2010
13. See Chapter 24 for a full account of the battles between the Treasury and DWP
14. Interview, Sir David Richards
15. Hansard, 19 October 2010, Column 798
16. Securing Britain in an Age of Uncertainty: The Strategic Defence and Security Review, p. 32
17. BBC News, 20 October 2010
18. Hansard, 20 October 2010, column 949
19. BBC News, 21 October 2010
20. Hansard, 20 October 2010, column 965
21. Interview, Lena Pietsch
22. Ibid.
Chapter 5
1. Interview, Jonathan Caine
2. Interview, Owen Paterson
3. Interview, Tom Fletcher
4. Interview, Jonathan Caine
5. David Cameron speech to the Commons, Guardian, 15 June 2010
6. Interview, Tom Fletcher
7. Interview, Jonathan Caine
8. Ibid.
9. Hansard, 15 June 2010, columns 739–42
10. Guardian, 18 June 2010
11. Interview, Julian King
12. BBC News, 11 October 2011
Chapter 6
1. Interview, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles
2. Interview, James Fergusson
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Interview, Sir Nigel Sheinwald
6. Interview, Liam Fox
7. Interview, Sir Simon McDonald
8. Interview, Oliver Letwin
9. Interview, Sir Peter Ricketts
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Interview, Tom Fletcher
13. Diary, Sir Nick Parker, 11 June 2010
14. Interview, Liz Sugg
15. New Statesman, 4 December 2008
16. Rolling Stone, 22 June 2010
Chapter 7
1. Interview, Tom Fletcher
2. Guardian, 8 September 2010
3. Ben Brogan interview with David Cameron, Daily Telegraph, 25 September 2010
4. Interview, Tom Fletcher
5. Guardian website, 18 April 2010
6. Interview with ITV before 2010 election, quoted in the Guardian, 8 September 2010
7. Interview, Lord Feldman
8. Guardian website, 27 July 2010; ibid., 28 July 2010
9. Interview, Tom Fletcher
10. Guardian, 25 August 2010
11. Daily Mail, 24 August 2010
12. Guardian, 25 August 2010
13. Gordon Brown, House of Commons, 25 February 2009
14. Interview, Lord Feldman
15. Interview, David Cameron
16. Ibid.
Chapter 8
1. Telegraph website, 4 October 2010
2. Guardian, 27 January 2007
3. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 74.
4. Francis Elliott and James Hanning, Cameron: Practically a Conservative (third edition, 2012), p. 451
5. Guardian website, 9 July 2009
6. Guardian, 25 February 2010
7. Elliott and Hanning, Cameron: Practically a Conservative, pp. 452–3
8. Observer, 10 July 2011
9. New York Times, 5 September 2010
10. Daily Telegraph, 21 December 2010
11. Guardian website, 5 January 2011
12. Ibid., 21 January 2011
13. David Cameron, Andy
Coulson Resignation Statement, 21 January 2011
14. Interview, Lord Feldman
15. Independent, 22 January 2011
16. David Cameron, Twitter, 6 October 2012
17. New Statesman, ‘Cameron’s Ten Biggest U-turns’, 17 February 2011
18. BBC Panorama, 25 April 2012
19. Hansard, 30 June 2011, column 55WS
20. BBC News, 13 July 2011
21. Hansard, 20 July 2011, column 921
22. BBC News, 20 July 2011
23. Hansard, 13 July 2011, column 314
24. Guardian website, 25 April 2013
25. BBC News, 4 July 2014
26. Ibid., 24 July 2014
27. Daily Telegraph, 25 June 2012
28. Guardian website, 21 November 2014
Chapter 9
1. Interview, Liam Fox
2. BBC News, 21 February 2011
3. Guardian, 20 February 2011
4. Cabinet Secretary’s Review of papers relating to the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Cabinet Office, 7 February 2011
5. Anthony Bell and David Witter, The Libyan Revolution, Part 2: Escalation and Intervention (Institute for the Study of War, September 2011), p. 14
6. Guardian website, 22 February 2011
7. Guardian, 6 March 2011
8. Dell and Witter, p. 18
9. Interview, Sir David Richards
10. David Gardner, Last Chance, quoted in James Buchan, ‘On a Knife edge’, Guardian, 3 May 2009
11. Interview, Liam Fox
12. Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, Guardian, 2 October 2011
13. Interview, Sir Simon McDonald
14. Matthew d’Ancona, Sunday Telegraph, 20 March 2011
15. Wintour and Watt, Guardian, 2 October 2011
16. d’Ancona, Sunday Telegraph, 20 March 2011
17. Interview, Sir Peter Ricketts
18. Interview, Sir Peter Westmacott
19. Bell and Witter, The Libyan Revolution, Part 2, pp. 24–5
20. Sunday Telegraph, 26 March 2011
21. Guardian, 25 March 2011
22.Interview, Sir David Richards
23.Wintour and Watt, Guardian, 2 October 2011
24.Ibid.
25.Ibid.
26.Ibid.
27.Anthony Bell, Spencer Butts and David Witter, The Libyan Revolution, Part 4: The Tide Turns (Institute for the Study of War, November 2011), p. 17
28.Ibid., p. 21
29.Interview, Gabby Bertin
30.James Forsyth, Spectator blog, 20 September 2011
Chapter 10
1. Interview, Lord O’Donnell
2. Interview, Patrick McLoughlin
3. Interview, William Hague
4. Interview, Julian Astle
5. Interview, Nick Clegg
6. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 79
7. Interview, Matthew Elliott
8. Guardian/ICM poll, 3 December 2010
9. New Statesman, 11 May 2011
10. Reuters/Ipsos MORI Political Monitor – AV Questions, 25 February 2011
11. Janan Ganesh, George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor (2012), p. 273
12. ConservativeHome, 16 February 2011
13. Interview, Lord Feldman
14. Tim Montgomerie, ‘The Story of the AV Campaign’, http://conservativehomeblogs.com/avstory/, 5 July 2011
15. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12504935
16. Interview, Matthew Elliott
17. Guardian/ICM poll, 18 April 2011
18. Interview, Stephen Gilbert
19. Interview, Nick Clegg
20. BBC Radio 4, The Liberal Who Came to Power, 17 February 2014
21. Ibid.
22. Interview, David Willetts
23. Guardian, 3 March 2011
24. BBC Radio 4, Today, 3 May 2011
25. Interview, Nick Clegg
26. Interview, Oliver Letwin
27. BBC Radio 4, The Liberal Who Came to Power, 17 February 2014
28. Interview, Danny Alexander
29. Interview, Julian Astle
30. Interview, Oliver Letwin
31. Interview, Nick Clegg
Chapter 11
1. Neil Oliver, A History of Scotland (2009), p. 294
2. Interview, Ed Llewellyn
3. Severin Carrell, Nicholas Watt and Patrick Wintour, ‘The Real Story of the Scottish Referendum: Britain on the brink’, Guardian, 15 December 2014
4. Daily Mail, 19 August 2013; Ed Lowther, ‘How Scottish is David Cameron?’, BBC News website, 7 February 2014
5. BBC News, 14 May 2010
6. Ibid.
7. Interview, Danny Alexander
8. Ibid.
9. Interview, Andrew Dunlop
10. Carrell, Watt and Wintour, Guardian, 15 December 2014
11. Hansard, 10 January 2012, column 51
12. Carrell, Watt and Wintour, Guardian, 15 December 2014
13. Ibid.
14. Interview, Andrew Cooper
15. http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/prime-minister-david-cameron-gives-a-speech-at-the-apex-news-photo/139060650
16. ConservativeHome, 7 October 2011; interview, Julian Glover
17. Transcript of David Cameron’s Scotland speech, 16 February 2012
18. Ibid.
19. Sunday Times, 14 October 2012
20. Interview, Ed Llewellyn
Chapter 12
1. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 140
2. Interview, Liz Sugg
3. BBC Radio 4, Today, 9 August 2011
4. BBC News, 9 August 2011
5. Guardian website, 9 August 2011
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Boris Johnson, interviewed in Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise, BBC film, Michael Cockerell, 25 March 2013
11. d’Ancona, In It Together, p. 145
12. Guardian website, 10 August 2011
13. Ibid.
14. BBC Radio 4, The World at One, 10 August 2011
15. BBC News, 10 August 2011
16. Interview, Craig Oliver
17. Hansard, 11 August 2011, column 1,053
18. Ibid., column 1,131
19. Ibid., column 1,057
20. Interview, Steve Hilton
Chapter 13
1. Interview, Lord Feldman
2. Matthew d’Ancona, In it Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 188
3. Interview, David Cameron
4. Peter Snowdon, Back from the Brink: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of the Conservative Party (2010), pp. 224–42
5. Steve Hilton to Tim Chatwin, email, 21 December 2009
6. Interview, David Cameron
7. Interview, Steve Hilton
8. Ibid.
9. Interview, Tim Chatwin
10. Interview, Oliver Letwin
11. Interview, Francis Maude
12. Interview, Michael Lynas
13. Interview, Lord O’Donnell
14. Interview, Steve Hilton
15. David Cameron, Big Society Speech, 19 July 2010
16. Financial Times, 23 July 2010
17. Interview, Tim Colbourne
18. Guardian, 14 February 2011
19. Independent, 15 February 2011
20. Interview, Steve Hilton
21. BBC News online, 23 May 2011
22. Spectator, 25 May 2011
23. Daily Telegraph, 6 July 2011
24. Interview, Lord Kerslake
25. The Times, 20 January 2015
Chapter 14
1. Interview, David Cameron
2. Sun, 26 September 2007
3. David Laws, 22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem–Conservative Coalition (2010), p. 185
4. Liberal Democrat Manifesto (2010), p. 67
5. Interview, Nick Clegg
/> 6. BBC News, 8 September 2011
7. Guardian website, 24 October 2011
8. Interview, David Cameron
9. Guardian, 5 December 2011
10. EurActiv.com, 5 December 2011
11. Interview, Tim Colbourne
12. Nick Clegg, The Andrew Marr Show, 11 December 2011
13. Interview, Lena Pietsch
14. Hansard, 12 December 2011, column 519
15. Interview, Andrew Cooper
16. Spectator website, 14 December 2011
17. BBC News, 13 December 2011
18. http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2011/12/15/uk_insists_it_will_help_europes_new_fiscal_pact/
19. Daily Mail, ‘Day PM Put Britain First: Defiant Cameron Stands Up To Euro Bullies’, 10 December 2011
20. Interview, Tim Colbourne
Chapter 15
1. David Cameron, Conservative Party conference speech, 4 October 2006
2. Andrew Lansley, Conservative Party press release, 11 July 2007
3. David Cameron, speech to the Royal College of Nursing, 11 May 2009
4. David Cameron, speech to the Royal College of Pathologists, 2 November 2009
5. The Coalition: Our Programme for Government (2010), p. 24
6. Sir David Nicholson, NHS Alliance conference, 18 November 2010
7. David Cameron, Foreword to the Spring 2008 Conference Paper
8. Nicholas Timmins, Never Again, Institute for Government/King’s Fund (2012); Independent, 10 July 2012
9. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 99
10. Simon Stevens, Financial Times, 15 July 2010
11. d’Ancona, In It Together, p. 106
12. Timmins, Never Again, p. 96
13. Ibid.
14. Guardian website, 6 April 2011
15. Robert Hazell and Ben Yong, The Politics of Coalition: How the Conservative–Liberal Democrat Government Works (2012), p. 182
16. Observer, 10 March 2012
17. Interview, Lord Feldman
18. Interview, David Cameron
19. ‘NHS Five Year Forward View’, 23 October 2014
Chapter 16
1. ‘Statement by the President on the Passing of Leonard Nimoy’, the White House, 27 February 2015; Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge, Brown at 10 (2010), p. 229
2. Barack Obama, Westminster Hall, 25 May 2011
3. Guardian, 14 March 2012
4. Time website, 14 March 2012
5. BBC News, 13 March 2012
6. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 232
7. Interview, Sir Peter Westmacott
8. d’Ancona, In It Together, p. 232
9. Interview, Jonny Oates.
Chapter 17
1. Matthew d’Ancona, In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government (2013), p. 232
2. Interview, Rupert Harrison
3. Janan Ganesh, George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor (2012), p. 281