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“I am not going to get into my advice or my department’s advice to the prime minister,” the foreign secretary told Times Radio on Thursday.Cameron repeated the dodge in subsequent interviews. He told LBC: “It’s not a question of what I would have done.”
And he told the BBC: “In items of my advice I am part of a team and I support my team leader. I give advice confidentially to our team leader about all sorts of things.”“Did you say at any point, this is a mistake, it’s D-Day, you’ve got to be here?”But the foreign secretary did deny this. “I absolutely wasn’t at all,” he told Sky News.The former prime minister added of Sunak: “I don’t feel sorry for him.
Labour has held a comfortable poll lead for some time and is widely expected to easily win the election on July 4. But Cameron said “anything is possible” and the Tories could still win. “I’m never giving up,” he said. “I remember fighting the election in 2015 and people said I didn’t have a chance and we were behind in the polls and we kept going and we had a clear plan, we had a strong team, and we came through and won the election,” he said.Sign up and we will email you daily with the best of our political and news coverage while also giving you a taste of our most-popular lifestyle, opinion and personal blogs.
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