Cameron at 10

by Anthony Seldon

Malaysian airliner, shooting down of, 369

  Malthouse, Kit, 140

  Manchester, and Northern Powerhouse, 377–9

  Mandela, Nelson, 352

  Mandelson, Peter, 25, 37

  Mann, Laurence, 3, 7, 27, 278, 342

  ‘mansion tax’, 205–6, 446

  Marr, Andrew, 18, 129, 176, 277–8, 292, 329, 355, 389–90, 453, 460

  Martin, Chris, 36, 130, 246, 317, 498, 530–1

  Maude, Francis, 83, 150–1, 159–60, 187, 211, 302

  and Thatcher’s funeral, 320–1

  May, Theresa, 29, 37, 43, 62, 220, 223, 228, 265, 279, 388, 474

  and immigration, 385, 454, 456, 458, 540

  leadership ambitions, 520–1

  and riots, 138–9, 142

  spat with Gove, 404

  Mayall, Rik, 119

  mayors, elected, 155, 160, 540

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 325

  Mediterranean refugee crisis, 460–1, 488

  Medvedev, Dmitry, 363

  Meese, Ed, 321

  al-Megrahi, Abdelbaset, 68, 99

  Menin Gate, 436

  mental health services, 495, 502

  Mercer, Patrick, 387

  Merkel, Angela, 5, 67, 196, 331, 344, 457, 475, 542

  addresses Parliament, 429–30

  and EU negotiations, 165, 169–78

  and EU referendum, 261–5, 267–9

  and Juncker vote, 425, 427–34, 436, 438

  and Libyan intervention, 103–5, 113

  relationship with Cameron, 105, 170–2, 265, 490–1

  and Ukraine crisis, 368–70

  Messina, Jim, 508, 511

  Metropolitan Police Authority, 140

  Meyer-Landrut, Nikolaus, 173, 268

  Middle East Peace Process, 62, 112

  Milburn, Alan, 183

  Miliband, David, 10, 81, 383, 535

  Miliband, Ed, 25, 218, 235, 247, 442, 448

  attacks Cameron on foreign policy, 370

  and Budget (2012), 210

  and Budget (2014), 376

  and economy, 249, 310, 315, 322, 347–8

  and ‘Ed stone’, 513

  elected party leader, 72, 81, 535

  and election (2015), 285, 290, 445, 488, 495–6, 505, 507–8, 511–19, 523, 527, 529–30, 532–5, 537

  and EU referendum, 266–7

  and fight against ISIS, 469

  and health reforms, 193

  omits to mention deficit, 443

  perceived weakness, 495, 514, 535

  and phone-hacking scandal, 88–90, 93

  and ‘Plebgate’ affair, 251

  relations with Obama, 463–4

  and riots, 139, 142–3

  and Scottish referendum, 133, 415–16, 418

  and Syria, 334–9, 341, 344, 463

  tribute to Thatcher, 320

  and welfare cap, 299

  Miliband, Justine, 523

  Millar, Fiona, 394

  Millennium Development Goals, 481

  Millennium Dome, 223

  Miller, Maria, 228, 279

  Mitchell, Andrew, 109, 227–8, 353, 393, 479–82

  ‘Plebgate’ affair, 245–7, 250–2

  Mitting, Mr Justice, 245

  Mondale, Walter, 291

  Montgomerie, Tim, 297, 403

  Monti, Mario, 175, 265, 321

  Moore, Charles, 319

  Moore, Michael, 128–9, 131–3, 410, 420, 482

  Morgan, Nicky, 406, 539

  Morgan, Sally, 402

  Morris, Colonel Jim, 60

  Moss, Kate, 411

  Moussa, Amr, 104

  Mubarak, Hosni, 97–8

  Mumbai terror attack, 471–2

  Mumford & Sons, 195

  Munich Security Conference, 472

  Murdoch, James, 88–9

  Murdoch, Rupert, 82–3, 86, 88–91, 93, 227, 385, 415

  Murray, Andy, 224

  Muslim Brotherhood, 98, 474

  National Association of Head Teachers, 401

  National Audit Office (NAO), 295, 300, 302, 304

  National Citizen Service (NCS), 154, 162, 443

  National Housing Federation, 301

  National Insurance, 310

  National Security Council (NSC), 42–3, 61–2, 487–8, 541

  and defence spending, 484

  and energy co-operation, 364

  and Libyan intervention, 101–2, 106, 109–10

  and Syria, 327–8, 335, 337, 340, 345

  and Ukraine crisis, 368–9

  National Union of Teachers, 400

  Nawaz, Maajid, 472

  Nelson, Fraser, 286, 298, 445

  Netanyahu, Benjamin, 196, 198, 466

  Neville-Jones, Pauline, 56, 58, 61

  New Labour, 11, 29, 34, 221, 402

  Newark by-election, 386–7, 502

  News International, 85–6, 88–92

  NHS, 14, 41, 43, 78, 291, 300, 348, 540

  and Budget (2015), 496–7

  and Cameron conference speech, 443–5

  and election (2015), 516–17

  and ‘health tourism’, 455, 460

  Lansley reforms, 24, 92, 181–93, 213, 221, 296–7, 304, 399, 540

  and Olympic opening ceremony, 223–4

  and Scottish referendum, 413

  winter crisis, 494

  NHS England, 182, 185, 187, 192–3

  Nicholson, David, 193

  1922 Committee, 26, 117, 219, 236, 251, 280, 290, 293, 502

  election (2015) and party leadership, 518–19, 521–2, 533

  and rise of UKIP, 382, 386

  threatens to end coalition, 386, 502

  Nixon, Tom, 377

  No Turning Back group, 457

  Nord Stream gas pipeline, 364

  Norgrove, Linda, 470

  Norman, Jesse, 233, 236, 239, 341

  Norris, Steven, 217

  North, Lord, 409

  Northern Futures Plan, 378

  Northern Ireland, 47–53, 126, 139, 321, 540

  Northern Line, 220

  Northern Powerhouse, 377–9, 493, 500, 538

  nuclear power, 24

  Oates, Jonny, 84, 176, 200, 235, 238

  Obama, Barack, 149, 203, 234, 321, 359

  and Afghanistan, 58–9

  congratulates Cameron, 4–6

  and defence spending, 479, 485

  and Ebola outbreak, 482

  and fight against ISIS, 468–9

  and killing of bin Laden, 471

  and Libyan intervention, 101, 103–4, 106, 108, 112–13

  and personal friendships, 196

  relations with Conservatives, 463–8

  relations with Putin, 366–8

  relationship with Cameron, 64–8, 76, 195–200, 489–90, 542

  and Scottish referendum, 413, 422

  ‘selfie’ with Cameron, 352

  and Syria, 327–8, 330–2, 334, 337, 342–4

  visits Britain, 196–7

  Obama, Michelle, 196–7

  Oborne, Peter, 298, 303, 343

  O’Brien, Neil, 377

  Odierno, General Raymond, 486

  O’Donnell, Gus, 3, 34, 38, 99, 129, 137, 151

  and AV referendum, 115, 122

  and formation of coalition, 23–6, 29

  and health reforms, 184, 187

  and phone-hacking scandal, 85, 90

  and ‘Plan B’, 208–9

  and welfare reforms, 297

  Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), 36, 253, 311, 379, 447, 494, 500

  Office for National Statistics (ONS), 314–15, 495

  Office of Fair Trading, 156

  Ofsted, 401–2

  oil prices, falling, 494

  Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election, 122

  Oliver, Craig, 130, 213, 226, 248, 286, 317

  and Budget (2012), 211–13

  conference planning, 441–2, 445

  and Crosby’s arrival, 289, 292

  and election (2015), 505–6, 508–11, 516, 518, 528–9

 
and health reforms, 188–9

  and immigration, 452, 458

  loyalty, 542

  and Olympics, 223

  and phone-hacking scandal, 87, 89, 92

  relations with Hilton, 155, 158, 161–2

  and riots, 137–8, 140, 142

  and rise of UKIP, 388–9

  and Scottish referendum, 415–16, 419

  supports gay marriage, 276

  and Syria, 334, 344

  and US visit, 198, 200, 207

  onshore wind industry, 234

  Open Data Institute, 151

  Open Europe, 457

  Opium Wars, 358

  Orbán, Viktor, 425, 436

  Orde, Sir Hugh, 141

  Osborne, George

  and Afghanistan, 59

  assessment as chancellor, 499–501, 538

  and AV referendum, 117–21

  and Bank of England appointment, 312–14

  booed at Olympics, 225

  and Boris Johnson, 217–20, 247, 520

  and Cabinet reshuffle, 226–9

  and China, 357, 359–60, 489

  and coalition crisis, 240

  compared with Cameron, 487

  conference planning, 441–2

  and Crosby’s arrival, 287–8, 290–1, 312

  daily routine, 498

  and defence spending, 484–5, 490

  and development spending, 480–2

  and economic recovery, 307–15

  and election (2010), 4, 7

  and election (2015), 507, 509–10, 515–18, 522, 527, 529, 533

  and EU, 166–7, 169, 172, 257–8, 260, 438

  and formation of coalition, 21–3, 25, 29

  and gay marriage, 276–9, 282

  and Gove reshuffle, 393–5

  and health reforms, 181–6, 189–90

  and immigration, 452, 457–8

  and implementation of Plan A, 9–19, 33–45, 149, 252–4, 379, 499–500, 538

  inexperience, 10–11

  and infrastructure projects, 349–52

  and Libyan intervention, 101

  and Northern Powerhouse, 377–9

  and phone-hacking scandal, 81–5, 87, 89

  and ‘Plebgate’ affair, 247

  and the Quad, 38, 240

  relationship with Cameron, 10–12, 35, 79, 211, 257–8, 286, 498–9, 538–9

  relationship with Hilton, 153–5, 158, 161–2

  relationship with IDS, 296, 299–301, 303–4

  and Scottish referendum, 126–8, 130, 132, 410, 412, 415, 418, 422

  and Syria, 333, 337, 339–41, 343

  and train ticket embarrassment, 252

  US visit, 195, 199–200, 203, 206

  O’Shaughnessy, James, 151, 274

  Owen, David, 191

  Oxfam, 300

  Pakistan, 58, 75, 195

  Parker, Andrew, 473, 475

  Parker, General Nick, 63, 223

  Parris, Matthew, 390

  Paterson, Owen, 48–50, 52–3, 228, 269, 300, 340, 382, 421

  and Cabinet reshuffle, 405–6, 441

  and floods, 353, 355

  and gay marriage, 279–80

  Patey, William, 59

  Patten, Chris, 56, 322

  Paxman, Jeremy, 121, 512–13

  Pearson, Lord, 382

  Peasemore, Berkshire, 74–5

  Pedelty, Tristan, 91

  Pelham, Henry, 496

  pension reforms, 373–5, 379, 495–6

  pensioners, 39, 207, 241

  personal allowances, see income tax

  Personal Independence Payments (PIPs), 295, 297

  Petraeus, David, 64

  petroleum revenue tax, 495

  phone-hacking scandal, 72, 81–94, 100

  Pickles, Eric, 44, 155, 355, 405

  Pietsch, Lena, 44, 84, 238

  Pink News, 276

  Pitchford, David, 302

  Plaid Cymru, 239, 511

  ‘Plan A’, 22, 25, 68, 82, 115, 205, 214, 240, 286, 348, 521

  explained to Merkel, 268

  implementation of, 9–19, 33–45, 149, 252–4, 379, 499–500, 537–8

  survives triple dip threat, 307–8, 314

  ‘Plan B’, 209, 252, 499

  Police and Crime Commissioners, 160

  Policy Exchange, 377

  Policy Unit, size of, 29–30, 151

  Populus, 133, 291

  Portes, Jonathan, 208–9

  Portillo, Michael, 531

  Powell, Charles, 109

  Powell, Hugh, 109–10, 327, 365

  Powell, Jonathan, 29, 109

  Press Complaints Commission, 89

  press regulation, 92–4

  ‘Prevent’ strategy, 404

  prisoner rights, 228

  private education, Gove’s attack on, 403

  privatisations, 43

  Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), 426–8, 431

  Project Umubano, 353

  Prudential Regulation Authority, 17

  Public Accounts Committee, 295, 302

  ‘pupil premium’, 24, 400

  Putin, Vladimir, 224, 329–31, 343, 362–70, 463, 482, 485, 488–9, 542

  al-Qaeda, 60

  Qatar, 98–9, 111–12

  Quad, the, 38–9

  and Budget (2012), 205–6, 214

  and Budget (2013), 309–10

  and Budget (2015), 494

  and coalition crisis, 240–1

  and development spending, 480–1

  exclusion of Hilton, 153–4

  final meeting, 502

  and health reforms, 190–1

  and ‘Plan A’ crisis, 252

  and Scottish referendum, 127–9, 132

  and welfare cuts, 501

  and welfare reforms, 304

  quantitative easing, 313

  Queen Mother, 321

  Quilliam Foundation, 472

  Rajoy, Mariano, 317, 422

  Randall, John, 251

  Rawnsley, Andrew, 425

  RBS, 9, 314, 415

  Reagan, Ronald, 11, 196, 291, 321, 489

  Reckless, Mark, 23, 168, 260, 389–91, 443–4, 451

  red boxes, 71, 517

  Redwood, John, 457

  Rees-Mogg, Jacob, 482

  Reeves, Richard, 143, 156

  Reeves’ furniture store, 140

  Reid, John, 119–20, 132

  Reinfeldt, Frederik, 170, 265, 427–8, 431, 433–4, 436

  Renzi, Matteo, 368, 460

  retirement age, rise in, 44

  Rice, Susan, 104

  Richards, David, 43, 49–50, 55, 60, 62, 64, 223

  criticisms of foreign policy, 487–8

  and Lee Rigby killing, 473

  and Libyan intervention, 101, 108, 110–11, 113

  and Syria, 327–8, 332–3

  and Ukraine crisis, 369

  Ricketts, Peter, 61, 67, 104, 107, 109, 170

  Rigby, Fusilier Lee, 473, 540

  riots, 137–44, 158, 331

  road pricing, 214

  Roberts, Andrew, 60

  Robertson, George, 483

  Robinson, James A., 481

  Robinson, Nick, 16, 87, 198, 229, 341, 420, 445, 519, 527

  Rochester and Strood by-election, 391, 451, 456

  Rogers, Ivan, 268, 426, 498

  Rogers, Thea, 377

  Rogoff, Professor Kenneth, 36

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 60

  Rowling, J. K., 413

  Roxburgh, Charles, 312

  Royal College of General Practitioners, 187

  Royal College of Nursing, 181

  Royal College of Pathologists, 181

  Royal United Services Institute, 486

  Rudd, Kevin, 481

  Russell, Beth, 313

  Russia, 58, 62, 105, 221, 362–70

  and Syria, 326, 329–32, 335–6, 338, 344

  and Ukraine, 196, 362, 366–70, 431, 436–7, 463, 465, 483, 489, 542

  Rutte, Mark, 170, 261, 265, 428, 431, 433–4, 436

 
Rwanda, 353, 479–80

  Saatchi & Saatchi, 148, 509

  Sadat, Anwar, 97

  St Paul’s Cathedral, 320–2, 358

  St Stephen’s Club speech, 166–6

  Saleem, Mohammed, 474

  Salmond, Alex, 123, 125–31, 133–4, 409–13, 417

  and election (2015), 514–15, 517

  Salter, Michael, 275–6

  Sants, Hector, 11

  Sarkozy, Nicolas, 5–6, 72–5, 169–76, 178, 267, 369

  and Libyan intervention, 101, 103–4, 107, 111–13, 173

  Sassoon, James, 312–13

  Saudi Arabia, 326

  Sauer, Professor Joachim, 171

  Saville Report, see Bloody Sunday inquiry

  Sawers, John, 62, 97, 101, 103, 108

  Schmidt, Helmut, 171

  Scholar, Tom, 312, 457, 498

  school sport initiative, 226

  Schulz, Martin, 427–9, 431–2

  science budget, 44, 500

  Scotland, Conservative representation in, 126, 132

  Scott, Derek, 498

  Scottish National Party (SNP), 123, 125, 128–9, 131–2, 239, 409, 543

  and election (2015), 507, 511, 513–19, 522, 529, 537

  and ‘English Question’, 420–2

  Scottish referendum, 125–34, 409–23, 441–2, 458, 467–8, 497, 513, 543

  Scottish Widows, 415–16

  Seddon, Nick, 192

  Sevastopol, 367–8

  sex trafficking, 157

  Seymour, Julian, 317

  Shadbolt, Nigel, 151

  Shafik, Ahmed, 98

  Shapps, Grant, 227, 390, 508

  Shawcross, Eleanor, 13

  Shawcross, William, 402

  Sheffield Forgemasters, 36

  Sheinwald, Nigel, 59, 67, 104, 109

  Shiplee, Howard, 303

  Shirreff, Richard, 487

  Short, Clare, 105

  Sierra Leone, 482

  Silva, Rohan, 13, 29, 150–1, 157, 159–60, 208

  Silver Jubilee, 414

  Simmonds, Ellie, 225

  Singh, Manmohan, 6

  Skelton, David, 378

  slavery, modern, 289

  Smith, Chris, 355

  Smith, Godric, 226

  Smith, Simon, 367

  Snow, Dan, 415

  Snowden, Edward, 345

  Soames, Nicholas, 441

  Sochi Winter Olympics, 363, 365

  social care, 241

  social mobility, 397, 539

  Somalia, 199, 481

  Somerset Levels, 354

  Sotloff, Steven, 471

  South Sea Bubble, 496

  South Shields by-election, 383

  Spacey, Kevin, 196

  Spectator, 93, 286, 298, 343, 369, 378, 445

  Spelman, Caroline, 44

  spending cuts, 14–16, 33–45, 442, 446–8, 496–7

  Spending Review, 40–4, 55, 299, 350, 480, 484, 500

  Spicer, Michael, 219

  Springer, Axel, 432

  Srebrenica massacre, 101

  stamp duty reform, 446

  Standard Life, 415

  Stanhope, Mark, 55

  Star Trek, 196

  Stehling, Thomas Bernd, 165

  Stevens, Simon, 187, 192–3