Minister Smith Says PM Cameron Won’t Serve Full Second Term if Reelected

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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One of Prime Minister David Cameron’s senior Cabinet ministers, Iain Duncan Smith, has mentioned in his remarks that he does not foresee David Cameron serving a full second term as Prime Minister if he wins the General Election. According to Smith, i.e. one of Mr. Cameron’s predecessors as Tory leader, Mr. Cameron would stand down as Prime Minister before the 2020 election.

Smith’s comments contradict Mr. Cameron’s claim last weekend in a BBC interview, when he alleged that he was “putting myself forward for the full five years.” Quite evidently, Smith’s remarks unveil the confusion among Mr. Cameron’s top ministers in the wake of the Prime Minister’s surprise admission in an interview with the corporation’s deputy political editor James Landale. The Work and Pensions secretary, Mr. Duncan Smith, revealed on BBC1 that “he will do what he says which is essentially to serve a full term if and when that date is fixed.”

Upon inquiry if he would have to stand down before the election, Mr. Duncan Smith replied that “of course there will be a competition at some point, but I have tell you that will be a competition on the back of a successful Prime Minister doing something that most prime ministers have never done before [by] ‘saying I know when it is time to go’.” Upon further inquire about a possible leadership election in 2018, Mr. Duncan Smith alleged that “I don’t think you are going to have in any shape or form a brand new leader that the country has never seen – all the people who might want to stand for that will have been up in the public sphere for some time.”

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