We should be more generous to our former prime ministers – and, yes, that includes David Cameron
The US reveres its past presidents, while we banish our leaders into a purgatory of forced retirement.
Former prime ministers Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, David Cameron and John Major at Westminster Abbey in 2019
When British prime ministers visit Washington, DC they can stay in a government-owned townhouse called Blair House. The property is part of the bequest to the nation that includes the Pennsylvania Avenue Presidential Townhouse, the grand home once owned by the great Supreme Court judge Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr and which every former US president can use when he is in town. It is a stark illustration of the varying degrees of respect the two nations hold for the former occupants of their top post.