David Cameron returns: how can a prime minister make someone who isn’t an MP foreign secretary? And what happens now?

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David Cameron returns: how can a prime minister make someone who isn’t an MP foreign secretary? And what happens now?

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The Conversation

Downing Street, London [Photo by Jordhan Madec on Unsplash]
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Thomas Caygill is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Nottingham Trent University

In a surprise move, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has appointed former prime minister David Cameron as foreign secretary. Cameron, who resigned immediate