When David Cameron was photographed scoffing Pringles on an Easy Jet flight over the summer, he became the subject of much mockery online. However, there was one woman who fiercely leapt to his defence, arguing that he deserved better than a budget snack on a budget airline. ‘David Cameron deserves official jet,’ Fiona Phillips declared in the Mirror. ‘He’s our Prime Minister for goodness sake.’
Alas, Phillips may soon be rethinking her approach when it comes to the Prime Minister. It appears that any fondness the former GMTV presenter holds towards Cameron — who she has met a number of times — is not reciprocated.
During a Media Focus talk, Damian McBride recalls a conversation Cameron once had about Phillips behind the scenes of a GMTV election feature. McBride — who was working as Gordon Brown’s spinner at the time — says that both Brown and Cameron agreed to meet with a ‘swing-voter’ family for a GMTV segment:
‘There was this great thing the old GMTV did in the run-up to the 2010 election.
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