BackDavid Cameron pledges never to discuss conversations with queen again
It was 'one of those moments when you look back and kick yourself very hard,' Cameron told BBC Television's 'Andrew Marr Show'
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London: UK Prime Minister David Cameron vowed never to mention his conversations with the queen again, saying he’s “extremely sorry and very embarrassed" about his comments on her reaction to the Scottish independence vote.
It was “one of those moments when you look back and kick yourself very hard," Cameron told BBC Television’s “Andrew Marr Show" in Birmingham, central England, on Sunday on the first day of his Conservative Party’s annual conference. “I’m not going to ever discuss my conversations with the palace ever again."
The prime minister was caught on microphone last week saying that Queen Elizabeth II “purred down the line" when he called her to say Scotland had rejected independence in the 18 September vote. The comments, made at Bloomberg LP’s headquarters in New York, were a breach of protocol because communications between the prime minister and the monarch are traditionally kept private.
“I’ve made my apologies and I think I’ll probably be making some more," Cameron told the BBC. “It was not a conversation that I should have had, even though it was a private conversation, and I’m extremely sorry and very embarrassed about it."
Cameron was recorded on a pooled television camera telling Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York who is the majority owner of Bloomberg, that “the definition of relief is being the prime minister of the United Kingdom and ringing the queen and saying ‘It’s alright, it’s OK.’
That was something," he said. “She purred down the line." Bloomberg
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