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David Cameron will not be the first former prime minister to serve as foreign secretary (which remarkably is only his second ministerial post).
– Sir Alec Douglas-Home served as Edward Heath’s foreign secretary between 1970 and 1974. The difference in his case is that he had renounced a peerage when he became prime minister, and sat in the Commons.
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