David Cameron reveals new job as president of charity Alzheimer’s Research UK

FORMER PM David Cameron has revealed he is about to take up a new job as president of the charity Alzheimer’s Research UK.

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He says he knew he wanted to “help with the fight” when he met a patient in a care home the week he resigned as PM after the Brexit vote.

, he says he held the woman’s hand but adds: “As I looked back at her I could see she didn’t know either where she was, or who was sitting with her.”

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He says it brought home to him “the desperate sadness” of the memory-loss condition.

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Mr Cameron says tackling it is a “personal priority” and he wants research to develop new treatments so families “avoid the heartbreak”.

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