Will David Cameron back in government make a difference?

Government reshuffles in the UK don't normally include bombshells and usually ministerial changes are well leaked in the weeks or days prior to the Number 10 announcement. This time there was a bombshell appointment and absolutely no leak beforehand. Quite an achievement by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The bombshell of course was the announcement that David Cameron, ex prime minister, was to be foreign secretary. Bizarre! Very very unusual for a former prime minister to be asked to come back into government, but Cameron looked and sounded chuffed. He'll probably make a perfectly satisfactory foreign secretary because most of the leaders around the globe will know him or at least know of him. He also knows how government works and the civil service is accustomed to his ways. But for many people in this country he is always remembered as the prime minister who risked the future of this country by agreeing to hold a referendum on whether to stay in the European Union in the belief that voters would want to stay. He was wrong and had to resign as a consequence, and since then the UK's economy has been struggling to adapt to the new so-called independence, free of EU bureaucracy. None of the promises made by the Leavers campaigners have been met and I bet a lot of the Leavers now wish they had been Remainers. So Cameron has a lot to answer for. But now he is foreign secretary, so let's see what he can do to make up for the biggest political mistake of his career.