David Cameron - his first term as prime minister

Driving the business of Britain. After his first term David Cameron, who became the country’s youngest prime minister for over 200 years is fighting to remain at the wheel of power.

Opinion polls suggest there is not a big enough majority on the same political track as him.

The Eton and Oxford educated Conservative led his party back into number 10 after an absence of over a decade. But it was not straight forward. For the first time since February 1974 the nation had its first hung parliament with the Tories 20 seats short of an overall majority.

He formed a coalition government with the the Liberal Democrats appointing Nick Clegg as the deputy prime minister.

The business of government was new to the forty-three-year old, the workings of the party he knew well having been a special adviser to the Chancellor and then the Home Secretary before entering parliament and becoming leader in 2005.

Within a year the coalition’s planned spending cuts sparked unrest in the streets of