Cameron’s Lament

What did David Cameron sing on the way back into Number 10, shortly after his resignation speech to the press?

It’s been the source of much speculation, and the best attempt comes from Classic FM’s blog. The answer seems to be: no one quite knows.

Composer Thomas Hewitt Jones went one step better. His new composition, Cameron’s Lament, takes Cameron’s motif and casts it as a tragic reverie through a failed political career.

Producing that week’s Weekly Economics Podcast, I just had to use Cameron’s Lament to open the episode - harkening back to voices now lost in the mists of time (goodbye to Osborne, for now, and his oft-repeated ‘long-term economic plan’), and looking ahead to May’s Britain.