Where did it all go wrong for David Cameron?

As the former PM publishes his memoirs, Patrick Wintour tells Anushka Asthana that Cameron's pursuit of austerity and decision to call an EU referendum sowed the seeds of his demise. Plus, in opinion, George Monbiot on the global climate strike

David Cameron announced his intention to resign as prime minister the morning after Britain voted to leave the EU in a referendum he had decided to hold and then lost. It came after years of austerity, his government's response to the global financial crisis, in which huge cuts to local services had hit communities hard.

The Guardian's diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour, tells Anushka Asthana that as political editor at the time, he watched Cameron's rise to the leadership and then into Downing Street. But his premiership was to be defined by those two big crises: the 2008 economic crash and Brexit. As Cameron publishes his memoirs, the consequences of the decisions he made as prime minister are still playing out in real time.