Gives the details of every part of Cameron being Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition. There are interesting facts in the book and the details of what the media was criticising the former Prime Minister of doing at the time. Very interesting and would highly recommend the book.

Unlike a number of the reviews, I have actually read this book over the last few days. It’s a fascinating insight into the reality of being Prime Minister. The difficult decisions that had to be made to try to sort the country’s finances out along with giving the voters the right to air their views on two thorny issues of our times. You can have your own thoughts on the outcomes but democracy doesn’t mean always getting the outcome you want. David Cameron comes across as someone who wanted to reform his country and party for the better. This book shows a mixed record but you can’t doubt that progress was made overall. A fascinating read and really insightful.

I have just finished reading this book. The phrase that best describes this book for me is long winded. 700 pages of far too much detail and analysis on every minor policy and its subsequent implementation. Very much about his time as PM, with very little on his background and what he has done since - makes sense given the title. Takes 680 or so pages to get to the EU referendum. Very clear in everything he says, but has a few inconsistent arguments (in my opinion). It is very much a defence of everything, with few mistakes acknowledged. It seems that everything was a rose garden from his perspective at times, despite a little openness. He was not a bad PM at the end of the day, in fact rather good because he confronted issues rather than ignoring them. Little mention of NI or Wales, which for me is very telling. A good read, but certainly not a so called ‘must read’.

I the only reason I read this was because I am a Politics student. I'll be honest, I have never been a fan of what David Cameron has achieved in terms of austerity and brexit, and I sit on the opposite side of the spectrum to him. However, this biography is well argued and NOT anywhere close to being a political manifesto disguised as a biography. Certainly, if you're interested in what has shaped up to be a controversial few decades in British Politics, then read this.

After Cameron's robotic prose was charitably "spruced-up" by Janet Street-Porter, something of which she should be ashamed, the books clearly reads as if the author is speaking to the reader, it's intimate and personal. The problem with this however cannot be found in the method of delivery but the package that's being carefully shipped: a gospel of lies. The book is a paradoxical mish-mash of childish deflections and false confessions which together make the text ear-itchingly irritating to swallow. I feel personally addressed while reading but as soon as my eyes are free from the page, my brain starts to route through what it's just been fed and the phrase: "CAN NOT COMPUTE" consistently darts across my mind's eye. Funnily enough, the less robotic the prose, the more robotic my brain has to be in order to defend me from believing in the words of such a large tome of falsehoods.