What Dave said in his kitchen during an interview with the BBC has blown this week’s news agenda wide open, yet Mr S couldn’t help but chuckle at the fact the PM was in the kitchen at all. After Miliband’s ‘kitchenette’ spin gaffe last week, it was no coincidence that Dave and Sam invited James Lansdale to their plush Cotswold scullery. The contrast to Ed’s ‘bland’ kitchen – which Sarah Vine likened to ‘a Communist era housing block in Minsk’ – was obvious.
Besides Cameron’s pre-resignation, what has got people talking is Dave’s ‘Calm Down Dear’ chopping board, which is clearly on display above the sink. Cameron got into hot water in 2011 when he uttered these words to the Shadow Leader of the House Angela Eagle. He went on to apologise some months later for his apparently sexist remark.
There was a suggestion at the time that Eagle had been wagging her little finger at the PM, triggering the outburst.
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