David Cameron, who became Britain’s youngest prime minister since 1812 when he won elections in 2010, on Friday surprised everyone by securing a majority for the Conservatives against all odds to allow a party in the UK to govern alone for the first time in more than two decades. Cameron, a descendant of King William IV (1830-1837), seemed destined for power long before he took over as the head of the Conservative Party in Britain in December 2005.
The 48-year-old leader led his party to a thumping victory amid pre-poll forecast that the verdict would be the closest in decades and the winner would have to depend on more than one party to come to power. The son of a stockbroker, Cameron was educated at the elite Eton College and Oxford University. He started his political career by working for the Conservative Party’s research department, where he remained for five years. In 1991, he began briefing then-Prime Minister John Major, and the following year he was promoted as special adviser to Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman lamont.