Whilst our Prime Minister David Cameron is in the news every ay, it’s not often we get to hear his own words and day-to-day life or his family. However, if you have a newspaper subscription to The Daily Mail, you’ll have seen his interview with The Mail on Sunday yesterday.
Other than ruling the country, Cameron isn’t all that different to us – he’s a family man, who confesses that he watches “a lot of rubbish” on TV.
He tells the Mail that he’s in charge of the remote more than wife Samantha: “I drive her mad because I sometimes watch more than one thing at a time, and then she’ll leave the room.”
However, he controls how much exposure to the media his children get. None of them are allowed to have video games, mobile phones or tablets and don’t watch television in the mornings.
At the moment he’s safe when it comes to having to explain the behaviour of people like Miley Cyrus. “My children are too young,” he says. “Luckily they haven’t connected this lovely Hannah Montana, who is now this person twerking.”
He also talks about the tragic loss of his son Ivan back in 2009 and his anger towards those who tried to put a positive spin on it. “Even though Ivan was very disabled and very ill, it was all just a total shock. We had no idea he was going to suddenly die in the way he did,” he says. “But the person who says to you, ‘There’s a silver lining to all this,’ or ‘Some good will come of all this,’ you actually want to thump. It’s the most annoying thing anybody can possibly say.”
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Posted by Don Brown.