From election hero to oblivion in 16 months
MAY 7, 2015: Cameron becomes the first Tory leader since 1992 to win a Commons majority.
MAY 27: The centrepiece of the Queen’s Speech is legislation to hold the historic referendum on EU membership.
JULY 8: Cameron’s government pulls off a political coup after George Osborne announces plans for a national living wage.
SEPT 13: The PM’s political future seems assured after Labour elects Jeremy Corbyn as leader and its poll ratings start to fall.
SEPT 26: Cameron faces embarrassing allegations in a political biography that he once inserted a part of his anatomy into a dead pig.
NOV 10: He fires the starting gun on renegotiation with Brussels.
FEB 19: Cameron gets an EU renegotiation deal – but it is derided by critics. FEB 20: He sets the date of the referendum: June 23. FEB 21: London mayor Boris Johnson announces
that he will join Michael Gove in backing Leave.
MAR 19: Iain Duncan Smith, then work and pensions secretary, quits over benefit cuts and attacks Osborne.
APRIL 7: Following days of evasion after his father was named in the Panama Papers, Cameron admits he profited from an offshore trust he set up.
APRIL 11: He is accused of an affront to democracy after an official government document, costing
£9.3million, was sent to every household outlining the case for Remain.
APRIL 15: Official campaign begins with Johnson touring the country in a red bus whose slogan promises to spend EU money on the NHS.
MAY 5: A boost for Cameron after Labour has a disastrous night in local elections.
MAY 13: He is accused by Eurosceptics of being ‘frit’ for ducking a TV debate with Johnson.
mocks JUNE Cameron19: A BBC over audiencehis failurefrom the to EU. curb immigration JUNE 23: EU vote results in a shock defeat for Remain.
JUNE 24: Cameron resigns, saying: ‘The will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered.’
JUNE 30: Johnson steps down from the leadership contest after being stabbed in the back by Gove.
JULY 13: Theresa May enters Downing Street and sacks Osborne. Johnson becomes new Foreign Secretary.
AUG 4: Cameron’s widely-criticised honours list is published, handing out peerages, knighthoods and CBEs to donors and ex-staff.
SEP 9: In a major speech, Mrs May signals a return to school selection in England – a decade after Cameron said the Tories would not support such a move.
SEP 12: He resigns as MP for Witney in Oxfordshire, sparking a by-election.