{"id":135326,"date":"2023-11-23T07:49:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T07:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmybiznews.com\/?p=135326"},"modified":"2023-11-23T07:49:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T07:49:33","slug":"david-cameron-appointment-is-the-final-insult-says-ann-widdecombe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmybiznews.com\/politics\/david-cameron-appointment-is-the-final-insult-says-ann-widdecombe\/","title":{"rendered":"David Cameron appointment is \u2018the final insult\u2019, says Ann Widdecombe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The appointment of David Cameron as Foreign Secretary represents the \u201cfinal insult\u201d for all those who believe in Brexit, Ann Widdecombe has said.<\/p>\n

The former Tory minister, more recently a Brexit Party MEP, was speaking barely a week on from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak\u2019s shock decision to hand a crucial role at the heart of his Government to the man who himself occupied Number 10 from 2010 to 2015.<\/p>\n

A long-term Eurosceptic even when she was in government, Ms Widdecombe, ex-MP for Maidstone in Kent, has little in common politically with the now Lord Cameron – a fact she readily admitted when asked what she made of the news.<\/p>\n

She told Express.co.uk: \u201cI find it insulting – the final insult to the Brexiteers in fact.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the man who was the architect of Project Fear.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSomebody who resigned because the nation had voted for Brexit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho has consistently opposed Brexit-type measures, and now he’s in charge of foreign policy, and therefore by definition of EU policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether she, like many others, had believed Lord Cameron\u2019s political career was behind him, Ms Widdecombe added: \u201cI wish it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

MPs are launching an inquiry into how ministers sitting in the House of Lords can be held accountable by elected members.<\/p>\n

It comes after David Cameron was appointed Foreign Secretary, with Rishi Sunak appointing the former prime minister to the Lords.<\/p>\n

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