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Mr Cameron...

• insisted that the UK had some of the strictest controls on arms sales in the world;
• attacked the Libyan regime's conduct as "unacceptable";
• explained the rationale for spending cuts, noting that the NHS - the service most important to vulnerable people - had had its budget ringfenced;
• argued that he was being tough-but-fair on banks;
• promised to rebalance the economy towards manufacturing and exports;
• re-link the UK to the fastest-growing economies in the world;
• committed to simplify the tax and regulatory system;
• said that cannabis was a dangerous drug connected to mental illnesses and that drug legalisation would only increase use and problems;
• noted that Iran was a different case from other potentially nuclear-armed states because it has vowed to wipe another state (Israel) off the face of the planet;
• promised UK troops would "come home" from Afghanistan as soon as that nation's own security forces were able to stop the nation becoming, again, a base for al-Qaeda or other terrorists;
• rejected the idea that an in/out referendum would resolve the question of EU membership and said he wanted to change the EU but remain a full member;
• defended the right of Wales and Scotland to continue to offer free tuition at universities but argued that fees will, for English universities, mean a better-funded, higher quality education in the years ahead;
• repeated his promise to reduce net immigration from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands;
• said the Berlin Wall's fall in 1989 - "the year of liberation" - was the most important world event in his political development and continues to give him hope for the future;
• identified climate change as the greatest challenge facing the next generation and global poverty as the greatest challenge of today.

Barack Obama has been interviewed in this series.

Comments

[Ultimo Tiger]

Great TV channel. Shame the US tried to blow them up.

Well done for rejecting the EU referendum David. It makes the case for removing you as party leader much stronger.

[Martin Marprelate- A Man in the Street!]

"rejected the idea that an in/out referendum would resolve the question of EU membership and said he wanted to change the EU but remain a full member"

Well folks, there it is- straight from the horse's mouth! So to all your poor deluded souls who stay in the Conservative Party in the hope that it will see sense and grant an In-Out referendum on the UK remaining in the EU have been taken for a load of patsies. There is no hope while Cameron and his lot are in charge and only a heavy election defeat or the schism of the present Conservative Party will cure the situation.

In serious illnesses especially where the life of the patient is at risk it is often necessary for them to suffer amputation or the excision of an organ to save the rest of the body or to undergo medical treatment with painful and nasty side effects. I feel that the party calling itself Conservative will have to undergo such a rigorous and robust treatment and if this means suffering five years of a Labour Government then so mote it be. In any event, apart from some Economic matters, on the EU and on the Quality of Life Social and Moral Issues one could hardly get a fag paper between the Cameroon Tories, the Orange-Book Lib-Dems and the Labour Party these days so to the average voter there is no great difference I regret to say.

If UKIP are standing in my ward on May 5th I will vote for them, but as they don't tend to have any great presence in Local Politics I MAY vote for the Conservative LOCAL ELECTION Candidate but I cannot see me doing so in any other Elections as long as Cameron or one of his type is in charge of what has become the Cooper-Hilton-Finkelstein Party . I will also vote YES2AV and would urge non Roons who are REAL Traditionalist Tories at heart to do likewise as Cameron obviously fears that democratisation of our voting system.

[Philip]

So no desire to regain our sovereignty, still trying to have us believe we can change the EU, while the truth must be that ever-closer Union will always be the Project.

Good he pointed out NHS budget is ring-fenced - we need to hear more of this, and that it is possible to cut waste without adversely affecting front-line services, to counter the efforts on the BBCC.

EXCELLENT he sees the light about cannabis being dangerous and that legalising drugs will only increase problems.

Climate change and global poverty are huge problems that need to be tackled but I'm not sure these are the greatest threats. I would have thought the threat to peace and security posed by Islamism (a political ideology based on a religion) and terrorism motivated by an interpretation of Islam, is greater.

[Carlton]

Once again he puts a few thousand miles between himself and the British electorate to say these things.The lad is going to reform europe.Sweet!

[robert]

David Cameron is defending the indefensible in saying Wales and Scotland have the right to offer free tuition fees at University.
Children and students in England on graduation will have to pay for the increased funding of Universities to achieve higher quality education not the Coalition Government.
Graduates in England are being treated unfairly compared to graduates in Wales and Scotland which is a disgrace.
A British Prime Minister must realise this and it will never be forgiven by the people of England.

[Carlton]

Bye bye dave-nice to have known you!

[michael mcgough]

"said he wanted to change the EU but remain a full member;" BLESS

[Ken Stevens]

Aside from the content of the interview, what was the rationale for discussing UK domestic aspects on a foreign TV channel?

[Ultimo Tiger]

Because maybe some people in the UK watch AJ?

Or maybe people abroad are interested etc?

[anon]

Because he dare not do it at home,And this isn't the first time he's pulled this snakeoil stunt abroad.Stupid lad.

[Despairing Moderate]

If we're no allowed to decide our relationship with the EU by democratic means, it looks like the only way for us to leave the EUSSR is selected terrorism then. Any ideas where to start?

[It doesn't add up...]

Because he can get a fair hearing, unlike on the BBCC?

[Holly]

Do we have to completely steer ourselves away from
anything 'foreign'?
WE,as a country have to change the UK image,created in some countries by the fruit loops & Blair's folly,
by TALKING to the rational people in those 'foreign' countries.
We are NOT special,we SHARE the same round lump floating in space as those OUR PM had the audacity to speak to,in their 'foreign' bit of the floating lump.
WE have heard everything Cameron said a hundred times,
yet because we do not like or agree with his answers,or that he gave them in a 'foreign'land,we attack.
I am still shocked by some who think they are somehow better than 'foreigners'.I am shocked that some are so poisoned that they would kill us,regardless of colour or religion.
What is so irrational to answering questions?
Do they really HAVE to be answered here,even though those who listen here in the UK already KNOW the answers.
What scares some of us so much when Cameron is honest with his answers?He has ALWAYS said he would stay in Europe.He also said he would have an 'IN'/'OUT'
referendum,if the Lisbon treaty was not ratyfied,
LABOUR ratyfied it,where was the raging fury then?The 'clever' voted UKIP,the smart voted Tory.Neither got either elected with a majority.
I am content we have a Prime Minister willing to get OUR true nature across,yet some hamper the effort that
Cameron is making to improve the image of the British people abroad...My fear is...Maybe he is wrong about British people and we are NOT a tolerant,friendly society after all.
What say you?
I do not mind if we stay in Europe,get closer to other countries or whether the British PM answers questions somewhere else in the world...It is OUR world as well as THEIR world and sadly,up to now,none of us have anywhere else to go.
We could always continue to alienate ourselves from others and others from ourselves.
What are we teaching the generations coming up behind us?
We are NOT immortal and whatever crap we leave behind they inherit.Whichever part of the big floating lump you live on.

[Holly]

Look in the mirror.

[Ultimo Tiger]

People will use that as an excuse to do all sorts of things.

"Oh, we're only getting the politicians!"

"Oh, those students were working as interns for the politicians so they must be bad too!"

"Oh, that business received money off the government, they must be bad as well!"

And so on and so forth.

[Ivy]

If dave rang the BBC and said as PM he wished to be interviewed IN BRITAIN on staying in EUROPE and why the electorate cannot be allowed to vote on an IN/OUT I can almost guarantee Patten or someone else giving him a speedy yes.Over to you david were waiting.

[Ken Stevens]

"Do we have to completely steer ourselves away from
anything 'foreign'?"

I wasn't being xenophobic.

Just mystified that, e.g., the little domestic aspect of Wales/Scotland/uni fees could remotely add a relevant dimension of knowledge about UK to viewers of an overseas channel.

[Boudicca]

So Cameron has decided we stay in the EU regardless of what we, the people, want. Nice to have our PM touting himself around the Middle East spouting off about Democracy whilst denying it in the UK. Hypocrite.

I am so glad I bailed out of Cameron's CONservative Party before the election. I can look at myself in the mirror and know I'm not responsible for the sell-out of Britain to the Franco-German Reich.

At least this should show all those Conservative members who think Cameron is really a Eurosceptic in disguise that he is no such thing. He is owned lock, stock and barrel by the EU and serves THEM, not us.

Vote UKIP.

[Boudicca]

Since some Brussels bureaucrat came up with the following, I think the Irish might start it for us. Here is the EU in all its 'glory' with the mask off .......... From today's Telegraph

"As Irish voters headed for the polling booths on Friday, the European Commission bluntly declared that the terms of the EU-IMF bailout "must be applied" whatever the will of Ireland's people or regardless of any change of government.

"It's an agreement between the EU and the Republic of Ireland, it's not an agreement between an institution and a particular government," said a Brussels spokesman.

A European diplomat, from a large eurozone country, told The Sunday Telegraph that "the more the Irish make a big deal about renegotiation in public, the more attitudes will harden".

"It is not even take it or leave it. It's done. Ireland's only role in this now is to implement the programme agreed with the EU, IMF and European Central Bank. Irish voters are not a party in this process, whatever they have been told," said the diplomat.

[Phil East]

Might be time to join UKIP

[Despairing Moderate]

I don't expect anything better from a Quisling

[David Sergeant]

"and if this means suffering five years of a Labour Government then so mote it be. "

I could just say you are mad. Obviously another five years of a Labour government would end any chance of leaving. However, with a more considered view, people like you can't summon the guts to face the world as it is so you just throw tantrums. Cammeron never offered an in/out referendum so nobody is a patsy (he didn't offer a Lisbon treaty after everone had signed either).

People lke you can't summon the nouse to realise that an in/out referendum right now will almost certainly end with a substantial "in" vote, therefore ending the chance of leaving. Most people arn't bothered, without a Norway/Switzerland deal the BBC will ask what happens if we leave and we won't know, followed by a Brussels spokesman saying there is no chance of a deal and BBC studios will be full of international and British budinessmen yelling doom. Grow up.

[Holly]

It was a question.
Cameron answered it.
Should he have refused until back in the UK?

[Boudicca]

Don't even vote CONservative in local elections. That will help give Cameron's CONservatives an activist base. Vote UKIP or not at all.

[David Sergeant]

"Irish voters are not a party in this process, whatever they have been told," said the diplomat. "

Editor, is it possible to put this EU comment in a permament position in your heading. Boy doesn't say it all.

[Holly]

Again.
Someone asked a question.
Cameron answered it.
If Cameron does not get the EU to treat us like a MEMBER of the EU,which we are,he WILL call the referendum.
Firstly,however,He will give the EU the chance to treat us differently under his watch,than they did under Blair/Bozo's watch.This means saying NO to certain stuff that Blair & Bozo said yes to so they looked like 'integrated' members,when in reality they were lazy gobshites.
(Gobshite-
1.A mean contemptible person,especially a braggard.
2.A stupid incompetent person)

[Halki]

I echo what you say Robert.
My children won't forget, not for the many years they will be saddled with debt that others in the U.K. are to remain free from. As parents, we won't forget either!

[Holly]

YEAH RIGHT!!
So we have our referendum or elect UKIP into power and the UK pulls out of Europe,what difference will that make in the great scheme of things?
1.We will lower our debt quicker.YAY!
2.We will govern ourselves.YAY!
If you think UKIP will be able to pull us out of Europe,even with an 'out' referendum,without first making the UK able to function without our membership
you are misleading yourself.
It will take time,and to stay in power UKIP will stall
& drag it out for years,resulting in a bigger mess than staying in and getting a better deal for the UK would make.
When DC & Co start giving help to farmland for crops,
THEN you know the time is nigh.
Patience.It will come if the EU continues to treat us like they did Blair & Bozo.

[Iain]

I agree, after Cameron made a great play of Wales and Scotland deciding their own priorities the question that should have been asked is why as a British Prime Minister won't you allow English people decide their priorities for themselves.

I would also like to hear from Cameron what are the Welsh and Scottish doing without that England are getting for paying tuition fees, prescription charges, home care costs, bridge tolls, etc.

[Denis Cooper]

"But I don't believe an in-out referendum is right, because I don't believe leaving the European Union would be in Britain's interests"

Nothing new there, in fact, he said it before in November 2009:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedictbrogan/100017498/btw-dave-thinks-the-outers-would-win-an-in-or-out-referendum/

"As I mentioned the other day, those who hope they might one day get that ‘in or out’ referendum they are so desperate for should keep an ear out for what David Cameron has to say about Europe. On Marr earlier he said: “I don’t want an ‘in or out’ referendum because I don’t think ‘out’ is in Britain’s interests.” An obvious point of course, but it’s useful to have on the record Dave’s belief that if we did have a referendum to, as the euro-sceptic euphemism has it, reassess our relationship with Europe, we would vote for the exit."

So now it's on the record twice, at least.

[Halki]

I would hate us to be in Ireland's dire position, controlled by the bully boys known as the EU.
We need to break away from this while we can, regardless of what Cameron et al want.
I voted UKIP and will continue to do so. We need our voices to be heard.

[Ken Stevens]

It's OK, H, I've worked out the cunning plan: Al Jazeera is being tried out as a replacement for BBC World Service in endeavouring to convey the flavour of the British (and, additionally, the Welsh and Scottish) way of life to them furriners.
;-)

[vgb]

At least if we had a Tory majority we'd truly know where we stand with regards to our position on Europe. He can't even say how hard he wants to renegotiate through fear of upsetting the yellows and ending up with a Labour government, with their kamakazi ways. It's never been Tory policy to have a referendum so why are toys being thrown out of prams?

[Lindsay Jenkins]

I was a little concerned when Cameron said we were the junior partner to the US in the Second World War. Seems he missed a whole of history.

Now he think the other EU countries are our trading partners. Go back to the junior partner line Mr Cameron and this time you might be nearer the truth - the EU controls and dictates our trade policy. Where is the partnership in that?

Very sad when a British PM has such a limited understanding of our history and present circumstances.

[John Prendergast]

Why does this wimp only tell us the truth when he is absent?

Why does he renage? Why has he wrecked our services and our energy supplies? Why does he exist all, He is no bloody use.

Welldone al Jazeera

[Observer]

Yet another of Dave's lies about the NHS. Why is the budget being cut by £20b over the next 4 years? Why are 50,000 front line staff being made redundant? Presumably Dave wouldn't dare tell the truth in our country.

[Ivy]

Problem is so few people believe him anymore.Sad but true.The loyal cameroons of Burnley will doubtless turn out in force on Thursday.

[Martin Marprelate- A Man in the Street!]

I "had the guts" to quit the Cameroon Apology for the Conservative Party and not stick around like a toady living a lie. I seriously doubt that an "In-Out" Referendum, whether given by Labour or Tories would end in a substantial in vote but with no such Referendum this cannot be proven one way or the other.

[Adam Price]

"won't you allow English people decide their priorities for themselves."

They did. Big election in May, England elected a Tory government who are now implementing the higher fees. Wales and Scotland voted Labour/Nationalist who are no not implementing higher fees.

[Adam Price]

*now* not implementing higher fees.

And of course Wales and Scotland voted in the Welsh Assembly/Scottish Parliament elections.

[Despairing Moderate]

Now it may because of an age difference. I was born at the end of the baby boom generation but I'm like many on this site of my age who despaired when Ted Heath was leader of the Party. We rejoiced with Margaret Thatcher's fifteen years as Leader and whatever else you think, she did not take any nonsense from Europe. I have never voted UKIP in a Parliamentary election. I have in a European election but that's mainly because I beleieve the MEP on top of our Regional List is a pro-Brussels trougher. But the more and more I see of our present leader he strikes me as Ted Heath without the benefit of a Grammar School Education. I was brought up and educated in a very middle class family but in a very working class town and I do not believe that the leader connects with either social group. But we were brought up never to trust the Germans. Our parents had recently fought them and our grandparents had so when we see an institution dominated by Germany, we recognise it for what it is and we do have a word for people who support Germany's ambitions.

From our point our view, we see an economic system that benefits the German balance of trade, we see our economy bleeded by the sum of £24bn to £30bn pa to fund a corrupt unaudited system. Divorce can be quick,it can be clean. The British people have been given one half hearted chance on our european relationships and that was a generation ago. Now is the time to put the question to the people again (though the same people who are secretly funding Yes to AV will be putting their dirty money into a yes to the EU campaign

I happen to beleive the EU will implode in the next ten years. Putting it bluntly its financial structure is rotten so even something such as a referendum which I believe should always be used to validate any constitutional change will be redundant since there may be no EU to be a member of.

[Andrew Smith]

Possibly because of a cast iron guarantee that cracked?

[Andrew Smith]

Firstly, the interview didn't just happen; his PR people will have worked to get it.

Secondly, he will not b e exposing himself any time soon to a 25 minute interview unless the following issues are excluded by prior agreement:

EU and recovery of UK powers
Referenda
The inconsistency of calling for democracy in North Africa whilst denying Brits control of their own affairs
Danger of closing down our military when so close at hand there is turmoil

[Martin Marprelate- A Man in the Street!]

Tempting, but I have no axe to grind with the local Tory Councillors nor the town's two Tory MPs to be honest. My aversion is to Cameron and his clique such as Hague, May, Letwin, Maude, Willetts, Hilton, Cooper, and Finkelstein and what they espouse and what they have done, the type of Social/Moral Policies they support etc. Were David Davis, and MPs such as Carswell, Bone, Hollobone, Cash, Leigh the Leadership then I would in all probability still be a member of the Conservative Party. They are not running the party, so I am no longer a member.

Returning to how I will vote on May 5th. YES2AV of course in the Referendum, and if UKIP DO field a candidate in my ward they obviously will get my vote. If not, and I have never yet failed to vote in any election since I first voted in May 1972, I will have a problem. I do not care for the incumbent Labour Councillor and I would never vote for the Green "Watermelon" party and never for the Lib-Dems. Unless the Tory is an out and out Roon it is either vote for them (if UKIP is not standing) or spoil my paper.

[Richard M]

HE (Cameron) may want one thing and have a view about the EU.
Fine, but don't go preaching democracy to the world whilst actively denying it to the taxpayer who pays for the office of PM.

He does not favour AV,and is leading a campaign against it whilst allowing a free vote. Why not do the same over the EU In/Out instead of speaking to AJ?

He is a disgrace to the office he holds, and nothing in this interview surprises me.

[Martin Marprelate- A Man in the Street!]

"If Cameron does not get the EU to treat us like a MEMBER of the EU,which we are,he WILL call the referendum"

Really? Do you honestly believe that? If so please tell me the wining numbers for next Friday's Euro-millions and where can I find that crock of gold hidden at the end of the rainbow, next time I see one.

Cameron has not exactly proven to be a fountain of veracity in many ways since becoming PM. I have no reason to believe that he will fulfill this particular promise. Still St Paul did speak of "Faith that can move mountains" so maybe Dave will have a Damascene conversion on the road to Witney?

[ATC]

Spineless, pathetic.

Say one thing about the traitor Heath who went before him... at least he had intelligence behind his treachery and cunning.

Spineless gutless Cameron? The man who LOST a General Election when up against Gordon Brown?

Anyway, at least we can all take to the streets over the European Empire issue now. We've all tried everything else. Pitchforks it is...

[Holly]

HELLO!!!
The Irish had a referendum...no sorry...TWO of them,
so no one,especially the Irish people,can blame Europe
...THEY did it themselves.
They could have said no.
They got what they voted for.

[TimG]

So he believes that it is best for Britain to remain in the EU, therefore he does not support an in/out referendum. He is saying that he believes that such a referendum would result in the UK leaving the EU and so conversely if he were to believe a referendum result would allow the UK to remain a member, he would support it. When we, the voters, delegate to our parliament to make decisions on our behalf, we do so in the knowledge that if they cock things up we can elect someone else to do the job. Cameron seems now to support the notion that politicians can re-delegate our power to people we cannot elect. Denying us a referendum means that we have lost that power and have no chance to regain it. What he fails to understand is that our elected politicians had no right to give that power away to start with and by not allowing us the power to re-take it he is aligning himself with the traitors before him.

Whatever our views might me, the British people surely have a right to democratic accountability. The European parliament is democratic chaff. Cameron has proven himself to be democratic chaff, and I so very much hope that the future of democratic Britain can again lie with referendums, the ballot box, and not with a popular revolution, that in other countries seems to be the only way forward.

[Martin Marprelate- A Man in the Street!]

Burnley? Barnsley Central. Even if the Loyal Cameroons turn out this will be a resounding victory for Labour in one of their tribal seats. If the Tory comes a good second with twice the percentage that the Lib-Dems attain then fair enough. I would like to see the Lib-Dems, chalking up only 6% in an opinion poll in that seat, drop below 5% and lose their deposit. Anytime the Lib-Dems suffer in the polls, whoever beats them, I have a little holiday in my heart!