David Cameron after the death of Alan Clark, but did not make the shortlist. He was in the final two but narrowly lost at Wealden in March 2000, a loss ascribed by Samantha Cameron to his lack of spontaneity when speaking. On 4 April 2000 Cameron was selected as prospective candidate (PPC) for Witney in Oxfordshire. This had been a safe Conservative seat but its sitting MP Shaun Woodward (who had worked with Cameron on the 1992 election campaign) had "crossed the floor" to join the Labour Party and was selected instead for the safe Labour seat of St Helens South. Cameron's
Samantha Cameron several times by David Cameron, including in his victory speech following his victory in the Conservative party leadership election in 2005. The Camerons are members of the Chipping Norton set. Samantha Cameron Samantha Gwendoline Cameron ("née" Sheffield; born 18 April 1971) is a British businesswoman and the wife of David Cameron, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Until 13 May 2010, Cameron was the Creative Director of Smythson of Bond Street. Cameron took on a part-time consultancy role at Smythson, after her husband became Prime Minister. Samantha Cameron is the elder daughter of Sir