David Cameron 'planning political comeback and wants to be Foreign Secretary'
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David Cameron wants to return to frontline politics and has ambitions to one day be Foreign Secretary, it has been claimed.
According to The Sun, the former Prime Minister has told friends he is "bored s***less" two years after leaving Downing Street and then quitting as an MP.
Mr Cameron announced he was resigning as PM the morning after the EU referendum in 2016, despite previously insisting that he would stay on to implement whatever the British people decided.
Three months later, he stunned Westminster again by announcing he was standing down as MP for Witney with immediate effect.
At the time of his resignation as Prime Minister, he said: "I’ve said before that Britain can survive outside the EU and indeed that we could find a way, now the decision has been made to leave we need to find the best way.
"I will do everything I can to help - I love this country, and I feel honoured to have served it and I will do everything I can in future to help this great country succeed."
One friend told The Sun: "David is dedicated to public service, and has often said he wouldn’t rule out a public role one day, domestically or internationally. But he is only 52, and still a young man."
In order to return to the Tory frontbench, Mr Cameron would either have to be re-elected as an MP or accept a peerage.
He is currently writing his memoirs, which are expected to see him settle scores with Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, who led the successful Vote Leave campaign which led to Mr Cameron leaving office.
Labour MPs reacted angrily to suggestions that the former Prime Minister could make a comeback.
Labour deputy leader Tom Watson told Good Morning Britain: “I think it’s outrageous. I think that guy ran away from a referendum result that he imposed on the country and he had a responsibility to take us through Brexit and the negotiations.
"To just sort of consider coming back as if it’s an entitlement was actually part of the problem we had with David Cameron in the first place."
Meanwhile, The Sun also reports that Mr Johnson has privately conceded that he will never be Tory leader.
One friend said: "If Boris think the chances are against him, he won’t go for it. He doesn’t want to be humiliated by coming fourth or fifth."
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