David Cameron
Conservative Party leader, David Cameron was born on 9 October 1966 and was educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford.
Cameron graduated from Oxford University in 1988 with a first class honours degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.
David Cameron worked for the Conservative Party in their research department from 1988 to 1992 when he became a Special Advisor in the Treasury (1992-3), and then at the Home Office (1993-4).
Prior to becoming a Member of Parliament, David Cameron was Head of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications.
Cameron was elected Conservative MP for Witney, West Oxfordshire, in June 2001, and immediately became a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee.
From 2003-4 David Cameron was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party.
David Cameron came to prominence in 2005 when as Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Skills, he delivered an impressive speech at the Conservative Party Conference that instantly converted him from an outsider to be favourite to take over from Michael Howard as Conservative Party leader.
David Cameron campaigned for the Tory leadership under the slogan, 'Change to Win'.
On 6 December 2005 after a long campaign, Cameron became leader of the Conservative Party beating David Davis by 134,446 votes to 64,398 in a postal ballot of party members.
Cameron, who has been described as a 'reformist', a 'moderniser', and a leading member of the Notting Hill set, has called himself a 'compassionate Conservative'.
Cameron's brother, Alexander, married Sarah Fearnley-Whittingstall, whilst David Cameron himself married Samantha Sheffield in 1996.
David Cameron told Sue Lawley on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs that he wanted to select Benny Hill's 1971 hit Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West), which was the only song he knows all the words to.
David Cameron biography by Charles P. Mann