David Cameron’s Twitter announcement as Foreign Secretary

Conservative Foreign Secretary (appointed)

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The Prime Minister has asked me to serve as his Foreign Secretary and I have gladly accepted.

David Cameron posted that Rishi Sunak had asked him to serve as foreign secretary and that he had accepted.

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Why it mattered

It was an unusual return to government by a former prime minister. Cameron joined the Cabinet through a peerage, and his post set out the international challenges he expected to face.

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