The Times view on David Cameron’s return: Back to the Future
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Rishi Sunak has taken a bold but calculated gamble. His new team must now prove that government can be a stabiliser in British public life
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“The King has been pleased to approve the ­appointment of the Rt Hon David Cameron as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs.” So read the sentence that nobody in Westminster expected this week, or indeed ever. The instability of British politics since the Brexit referendum called by the man we shall soon have to call Lord Cameron has been so pronounced that shock and surprise are devalued currencies. But Rishi Sunak’s appointment of the former prime minister to his government in a sweeping and ambitious cabinet reshuffle was both unpredictable and unpredicted.

It was a media coup, sprung by Mr Sunak on a wholly unsuspecting public and parliamentary Conservative Party, just as Gordon Brown recalled his old adversary Lord Mandelson from exile