“On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.”

British politician

David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, is a British politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. He led the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016 and was Leader of the Opposition from 2005 to 2010. He represented Witney in Parliament from 2001 to 2016. After leaving Downing Street, he was made a life peer in November 2023 and later served as Foreign Secretary in the Sunak ministry until July 2024. Cameron describes himself as a one-nation conservative, and his politics have been linked with economically and socially liberal positions.