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    For the Record: David Cameron's memoir is honest but still wrong

    The former prime minister gives a truthful account of errors – but unknowingly makes a few more
    by Jonathan Freedland Sep 19, 2019 5 minutes
    The autobiography of Britain’s former prime minister is, like him, smooth and efficient, but loses its charm. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

    For the Record by David Cameron, William Collins, £25

    A spectre haunts this book – the spectre of Europe. Just as the 700 pages of Tony Blair’s autobiography could not escape the shadow of Iraq, so the 700 pages of David Cameron’s memoir are destined to be read through a single lens: Brexit.

    For all its detailed accounts of coalition talks with Nick Clegg or anxious Syria debates with Barack Obama, Brexit is the story. Cameron acknowledges as much, writing several times that he goes over the events that led to the leave vote of 2016 every day, “over and over again. Reliving and rethinking the decisions, rerunning alternatives and what-might-have-beens.” Later he writes: “My regrets about what had happened went deep. I knew then that they would never leave me. And they never have.”

    It’s this which gives the book

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