David Cameron: ‘Gay marriage has been an absolute disaster. It has totally split my party’

Mar 13, 2016 by Jill

(Clip from Telegraph article entitled ‘David Cameron is ‘petrified’ of Boris Johnson and branded Michael Gove a ‘Maoist’, new memoirs reveal’)

[…] Mr Cameron is reported to have compared the fallout from his decision to push ahead with gay marriage to the impact the U-turn on tuition fees had on the Lib Dems.

“Over food and wine in the 10 Downing Street flat, the prime minister told Nick Clegg: ‘Gay marriage has been an absolute disaster. It has totally split my party. It has been as bad for me as tuition fees were for you, Nick’. The prime minister said he now realised that it had been a big mistake to upset the ‘Tory base’ in the country.”

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