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Evening Standard
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Ethan Croft

In Boris vs Dave, has Lord Cameron won?

Londoner's Diary

Lord Cameron seems to be enjoying his new House of Lords perch. In his maiden speech yesterday afternoon, he took the opportunity to mock fellow ex-PM Boris Johnson, who famously compared himself to the Roman general Cincinnatus when he left office. “I have not been sitting, like some latter day De Gaulle at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises waiting to be asked, how shall I put it, to Take Back Control,” Cameron joked, “Nor am I Cincinnatus hovering over my plough. I leave all classical allusions, and indeed illusions for that matter, to another former prime minister with whom I shared a number of educational experiences.”

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