Will Cameron be purring after his next audience with HM?

But rosesarered, as others have said this was a complete betrayal of confidentiality, which is a cornerstone of the relationship between prime minister and monarch. DC should not have been having this conversation with anyone, whether he thought it would be overheard or not. While I agree that the other examples you give show a certain lack of judgement, memory, or even basic intelligence I don't think they are the same at all.

Love that tweet.

So DC is to personally apologise to HM - seems it wasn't just a fuss about nothing after all.

Well, he said it so his apology couldn't really be anything other than personal, although I suppose he could send one of his minions instead.

absent would you send someone else to make your apology? That is a very odd thought.

I wish more people on here had the strength of character to admit they have made a mistake and apologise once they realise. It is unfortunate that some don't and leaves us all with a poor opinion of them.

Nonnie I don't have minions so I couldn't send them to make my apologies even if I wanted to. That was a flippant throwaway remark but made because weasling politicians have a notorious reputation when it comes to apologising.

I would remind you that I apologised unreservedly to you in one of your previous incarnations because I had misunderstood a word you had invented in your post and I had misread it. The word in question was "overchanged",

Absent If I had been addressing the apology comment to you it would have been included in the paragraph addressed to you.

I think it is extremely unpleasant to refer to someone's 'previous incarnations' when presumably if they have them they do so for a reason. No, not unpleasant, cruel.

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Interesting Ana I think that puts it in perspective.

"We demand ridiculous standards from our public figures – standards that many, many of us would not match in our own private and professional lives.

This is not just hypocrisy, it’s the fact that this absurd level of scrutiny makes these public figures more likely to lie, to be bland, and to cover up behind red tape and bureaucracy and press releases.

Let them be human beings. Let them have a cup of coffee, a joke, a swear."

They are human and make mistakes when unprepared for something apparently simple.

No different repeating a private telephone conversation to repeating what has been said in an email or a PM, private means private surely

With so many terrible world events to think about which may end up involving us, I doubt her Maj is going to dwell too much on an indiscretion.

It's the media winding everyone up again.

But he was talking about how good it felt telling her maj about it, that was the main point he was making and there is nothing wrong with that. He didn't actually repeat a conversation at all. He just made a simple mistake.

He was in a room full of journalists at the time, so a pretty silly mistake to be so flippant about the Queen.

I do hope that Her Madge gives the silly little fellow a thoroughly good hand-bagging. He's nothing more than a loose-tounged braggart.

What cracks me up is listening to and watching various media coverage, it's the people who are 'drawn' more towards being Republicans that have given the impression of being hurt for her Maj. It has been quite amusing to watch.

Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, terrorism, hostages, beheadings . I just can't imagine how the poor bloke get's a wink of sleep, imagine getting his phone calls.

He has acknowledged he was wrong and will, like many, learn the hard way I'm sure. The cameras and sound equipment are never off you, ask Gordon Brown, Prince Charles and the Duke of Edinburgh, they have all made some bloopers.