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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ethan Croft

David Cameron joins Britain's poshest members' club

Londoner's Diary

Lord Cameron, current Foreign Secretary and former prime minister, can reasonably claim to have been the poshest occupant of 10 Downing Street since the Earl of Home. But a career in politics meant he had to give up elements of the good life. In 2008 for example, when he was Leader of the Opposition, Cameron resigned from his beloved private members’ club White’s because it refused to admit women as members. He made that discovery about its membership policy rather late in the day, especially considering his father was on the board, but fair’s fair.

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