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Editorial: David Cameron, a former British PM, makes a surprise return as Suella Braverman gets the chop. Is there a lesson here for the US?

Britain's former Prime Minister, David Cameron, leaves 10, Downing Street after being appointed Foreign Secretary in a Cabinet reshuffle on Nov. 13, 2023, in London.

The British media labeled Monday’s news a “sensational comeback”: David Cameron, British prime minister from 2010 to 2016, is to return as foreign secretary in the Conservative government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Amazingly, none of Britain’s vaunted pack of political journalists saw this one coming.

That was partly because Cameron is not a member of Parliament. In order for him to become foreign secretary, Sunak had to essentially order an express peerage from King Charles III. Who knew that such things could be arranged so expeditiously? But in this case, that new membership in the House

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