From hugging huskies to meeting One Direction: David Cameron’s life as PM in pictures
After six years in office Cameron has a lot of nice memories to look back on
AS DAVID Cameron bids farewell to No10 and his life as Prime Minister he has a lot of memories to look back on.
Away from the serious business of debating policy in the House of Commons there have been a lot of fun times for him in the top job.
From hugging a husky, being upstaged by a schoolgirl and meeting One Direction, here at The Sun we’ve selected a few of our favourites.
Who could forget when, as leader of the opposition, he hugged a husky to show people the Tory Party’s green credentials?
He was out in Norway to visit a glacier to see first hand the effects of global warming so a carbon neutral sled was definitely the only way to travel.
What will papers do now there won’t be the obligatory shots of David Cameron on holiday sipping a beer or pointing at fish? Summer simply won’t be summer without him pictured on a beach in Cornwall or “chillaxing” abroad.
Don’t believe the polls was the lesson learned last year when David Cameron led the Tory Party to an outright majority in the general election.
It came after five years of a coalition with the Lib Dems and another hung parliament had been predicted.
They didn’t always see eye to eye but David Cameron and Nick Clegg took Britain into the political unknown when they brought their parties together in 2010 for the first coalition government since 1945. It lasted the full five years but voters punished the Lib Dems in the next general election, and they went from 57 to eight seats.
Millions of girls across the world wished they were David Cameron when he met pop sensations One Direction.
He made a cameo appearance in their music video for One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks), their charity single for Comic Relief.
The first pictures of David Cameron’s daughter Florence melted everyone’s hearts after she was born during a family holiday in Cornwall in August 2010.
As they touched noses Cameron’s love for his baby was clear to see.
People were left wondering whether Cameron had formed a new bizarre boyband after this picture emerged on Twitter of him with Man City striker Sergio Aguero and the Chinese president Xi Jinping. Luckily though Cameron was just on a tour and went back to the serious business of running the country.
Part of being a good constituency MP is getting involved with the community and as these pictures show David Cameron definitely did that.
The water must have been freezing when he did the Great Brook Run in Chadlington, Oxfordshire, in December 2014.
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It’s impossible to predict how Boris Johnson and David Cameron’s relationship will work out in time, after the former Mayor of London backed the opposing side in the EU referendum campaign. But as this picture shows the pair, who have known each other since they were boys, were good at poking fun at each other.
David Cameron and Barack Obama have become firm friends during the outgoing PM’s time in the top job.
Back in 2011 they joined forces to take on a pair of teenagers at a secondary school in south London. It’s a shame their special relationship couldn’t help them win the match.
Television presenters always say never work with animals but, as this picture shows, David Cameron nailed this kind of photocall. On the campaign trail in his Witney constituency he snuggled up to this orphaned lamb and after giving it a bottle even kissed it on the nose.
After his success with the lamb David Cameron was undoubtedly hoping for a similarly positive reception when he read to some children at a school near Bolton. But reading Robert Munsch’s The Paper Bag Princess he failed to win over six-year-old Lucy Howarth.
She made her feelings known by putting her head on her desk.
Announcing his resignation at No10 Downing Street David Cameron was very emotional as he said he could not be the one to lead Britain out of the EU.
It came on June 24, the day after Britain decided to vote for Brexit, instead of trusting him and wanting to remain.
