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OPINION - Be bold Keir Starmer — and keep my old boss David Cameron as foreign secretary

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At a time of unprecedented disconnection between public and politics, David Cameron’s appointment as Foreign Secretary was a rare moment that reached beyond Westminster.

The astonishment of Sky’s Kay Burley when she saw my former boss stepping out of his Land Rover in Downing Street in November was echoed by a fair number of those in the swelling ranks of The Sod The Lot Of ’Em party.

As he builds his plan to “revolutionise” the way Britain is governed with an executive might want to keep that moment in mind. And double-check that still has Lord Cameron’s number on her WhatsApp.

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