Cameron declared new leader of Britain's Conservatives

0 Comments | AFP, December, 2005

LONDON (AFP) — David Cameron, 39, has been declared the new leader of Britain's main opposition Conservative Party.

The charismatic moderniser beat rival David Davis by 134,446 votes to 64,398, a margin of more than two to one, in a ballot of grass-roots party members. A total of 198,844 valid votes were cast.

"It is a huge privilege and an honour and a great responsibility to take on this job and I will do it with everything I have to do the best of my ability for my party and for my country," Cameron said at the Royal Academy in London on Tuesday.

"I want us to give to this country a modern, compasionate conservatism that is right for our times and right for our country."

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