The Foreign Secretary admitted that he was “worried” Israel had broken international law.
He’s a class act,” one grinning Tory MP effused when I asked for their two cents on David Cameron ahead of his first interrogation by MPs since becoming foreign secretary. Rishi Sunak’s decision to appoint his predecessor to the cabinet led to grumbles from those on the party’s right while delighting the party’s liberals. “[Barack] Obama got John Kerry in as secretary of state in a similar fashion,” one admiring MP wistfully remembered at the time.
Cameron’s return from the wilderness (also known as the Cotswolds) was made possible by a prompt ennoblement into the House of Lords. He was handed some ermine and told to deal with the unfolding war between Israel and Hamas to allow, some speculate, Sunak to devote more time to winning over voters at home.
The controversy that day – as conflict erupted in the Middle East and churned up eastern Europe – was how Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton would be held to account by the elected representatives of the British people. The salve that mollified some staunch believers in the supremacy of the Commons was that Cameron would still have to appear before MPs on the foreign affairs select committee.
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