David Cameron will likely send his children to private school after leaving Number 10, biographer claims
Mr Cameron previously said it would be 'crazy' to send his children to private school
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Your support makes all the difference.David Cameron’s children are likely to attend private school after they leave Downing Street, claims the Prime Minister’s biographer.
Mr Cameron has confirmed that Theresa May, 59, will be the new Prime Minister by Wednesday evening and he will be vacating Downing Street before then.
Isabel Oakshott, the co-author of the unauthorised biography of Mr Cameron Call Me Dave, has claimed Mr Cameron’s children are likely to be educated privately now that he is out of the public eye.
Call Me Dave is a 2015 book by political journalist Oakshott and Conservative peer Michael Ashcroft.
“As for the children, sooner or later, they are likely to move schools,” Oakshott writes in her Daily Mail column.
“Currently at a state secondary in Westminster, Nancy can now be educated privately, without it creating a big fuss. But the Camerons will need to decide whether to put her through even more upheaval by enrolling her in a new school.”
“Elwen, who along with Florence is currently at a Kensington primary, is thought to be down for a prep school in south-west London.”
Mr Cameron and his wife Samantha have three children, Nancy, 12, Elwen, 10, and Florence, 5.
In 2009, Mr Cameron said it would be “crazy” to send his children to private school when there should be good state places available.
“I’d like my children to go to state school. It’s crazy that we should have to pay lots of money for private schools. We all pay our taxes. You should have really good state schools available for all,” he said.
The couple sent their daughter, Nancy, to Grey Coat Hospital last year, a highly academic state-funded secondary school in Westminster, making Mr Cameron the first serving Conservative Prime Minister in history to send his child to a state school.
But in January 2016, the Mail on Sunday reported the couple were considering sending their son Elwen to an £18,000-a-year private school.
A representative for Mr Cameron did not immediately respond to request for comment.
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